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designate their general superintendents. Speaking of the Humiliati, Dr. Newman says: “Like the Waldenses, they ascribed to the local body of believers, or to the general assembly of the local bodies, the highest ecclesiastical powers.” f432 A well-known historian says: “Their barbas or pastors were every one of them heads of their churches, but they acted in nothing without the consent of the people and clergy,” i. e., the people and ministers in their churches who were not pastors. Drs. Dermont and Ypeij: “The Baptists … were originally Waldenses.” f433 If “Baptists,” of course, Baptist in church government, so Ypeij and Dermont say the “Baptists. … were the original Waldenses.” f434 Says Rev. W.W. Everts, Jr.: “The Waldenses were excommunicated by Pope Lucius III, for rejecting the lordship of anti-Christ, all clerical titles and offices not contained in the New Testament, and insisting on their independence in worship and discipline.” f436 Speaking of the Waldenses, Reiner, the Romish inquisitor, says: “This is a true picture of the heretics of our age, particularly the Anabaptists.” Reiner’s words are: “Vera effigies haereticorum nostrae aetatis (1013), praesertim anabaptistarum.” f437 Limborch: “To speak candidly what I think of all the modern sects of Christians, the Dutch Baptists most resemble both the Albigenses and Waldenses.” f438 Jones quotes from a translation of Mosheim: “Before the rise of Luther and Calvin, there lay concealed in almost all the countries of Europe persons who adhered tenaciously to the principles of the Dutch Baptists.” f439 As Dr. William R. Williams says: “It is not claimed that our denominational views were universal among the Waldenses.” f435 But I am willing to close this chapter with the statement, that the Waldenses were, certainly, as a whole, Baptists.
CHAPTER 17. — THE ANABAPTISTS. In the time of the Reformation, the genuine Anabaptists were the great and evangelical movement. Out of their principles and spirit grew all that was good in Luther’s Reformation. Historians credit the Anabaptists with being the originators of the separation of church and State, of modern liberty and of the doctrine of a regenerate church membership. In faith the Anabaptists of the Reformation were one with the Baptists of today. In a paper read by Rev. Henry S. Burrage, D.D., one of the highest authorities on this subject, before the “American Society of Church History,” in 1890, on “The Anabaptists of the Sixteenth Century,” he says: “What were sonic of the ideas that characterized the Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century? The following are especially worthy of attention: (1.) That the Scriptures are the only authority in matters of faith and practice. (2.) That personal faith in Jesus Christ only secures salvation; therefore infant baptism is to be rejected. (3.) That a church is composed of believers who have been baptized upon a personal confession of their faith in Jesus Christ. (4.) That each church has entire control of its affairs, without interference on the part of any external power. (5.) That the outward life must be in accordance with such a confession of faith, and to the end it is essential that church discipline should be maintained. (6.) That while the State may properly demand obedience in all things not contrary to the law of God, it has no right to set aside the dictates of conscience, and compel the humblest individual to set aside his views, or to inflict punishment in case such surrender is refused. Every human soul is directly responsible to God. These ideas characterized the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland. They appeared in the public discussions held with Zwingli and his associates. The supreme authority of the Scripture was made especially prominent in these teachings. The great evangelical truth which the Swiss reformers preached, they held. They believed in regeneration by the atoning blood f440 of Christ, but they demanded the fruits of regeneration. Their hymns, which happily have been preserved, show no trace of revolutionary or fanatical doctrines, but abound in devout sentiments pertaining to Christian experience and hope, and exhortation to fidelity and steadfastness in the faith, although persecution and death should be the result. These ideas the banished Swiss leaders made known in other lands. Prominent
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designate their general superintendents. Speaking of the Humiliati, Dr.<br />
Newman says:<br />
“Like the Waldenses, they ascribed to the local body of believers, or to the<br />
general assembly of the local bodies, the highest ecclesiastical powers.” f432<br />
A well-known historian says:<br />
“Their barbas or pastors were every one of them heads of their churches, but<br />
they acted in nothing without the consent of the people and clergy,”<br />
i. e., the people and ministers in their churches who were not pastors.<br />
Drs. Dermont and Ypeij: “The <strong>Baptist</strong>s … were originally Waldenses.” f433 If<br />
“<strong>Baptist</strong>s,” of course, <strong>Baptist</strong> in church government, so Ypeij and Dermont<br />
say the “<strong>Baptist</strong>s. … were the original Waldenses.” f434<br />
Says Rev. W.W. Everts, Jr.:<br />
“The Waldenses were excommunicated by Pope Lucius III, for rejecting the<br />
lordship of anti-Christ, all clerical titles and offices not contained in the New<br />
Testament, and insisting on their independence in worship and discipline.” f436<br />
Speaking of the Waldenses, Reiner, the Romish inquisitor, says:<br />
“This is a true picture of the heretics of our age, particularly the Anabaptists.”<br />
Reiner’s words are:<br />
“Vera effigies haereticorum nostrae aetatis (1013), praesertim<br />
anabaptistarum.” f437<br />
Limborch:<br />
“To speak candidly what I think of all the modern sects of Christians, the<br />
Dutch <strong>Baptist</strong>s most resemble both the Albigenses and Waldenses.” f438<br />
Jones quotes from a translation of Mosheim:<br />
“Before the rise of Luther and Calvin, there lay concealed in almost all the<br />
countries of Europe persons who adhered tenaciously to the principles of the<br />
Dutch <strong>Baptist</strong>s.” f439<br />
As Dr. William R. Williams says:<br />
“It is not claimed that our denominational views were universal among the<br />
Waldenses.” f435<br />
But I am willing to close this chapter with the statement, that the Waldenses<br />
were, certainly, as a whole, <strong>Baptist</strong>s.
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