Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

Let it not be forgotten that I have proved the Waldenses did not originate with
Waldo, and that when Baptist churches are conceded to have existed as early
as A.D. 300 and since that, the side of Baptist opponents is virtually
surrendered.
The: “New Royal Encyclopedia,” edited by Wm. Hall, with other learned men
of London, begun in 1788 and completed in three volumes, says in its article:
“Anabaptists.”
“It is to be remembered that the Baptists or Mennonites in England and
Holland are to be considered in a very different light from the enthusiasts we
have been describing; and it appears equally uncandid and invidious to trace
their distinguished sentiments, as some of their adversaries have done, to
those obnoxious characters and then to stop in order as it were, to associate
them with the idea of turbulence and fanaticism, with which it certainly has
no natural connection. Their connection with some of those oppressed and
infatuated people in denying baptism to infants, is acknowledged by the
Baptists, but they disavow the practice which the appelation of Anabaptist
implies; and their doctrines seem referable to a more ancient origin. They
appear to be supported by history in considering themselves the descend-ants
of the Waldenses, who were so grievously oppressed and persecuted by the
despotic heads of the Romish hierarchy.” f723
Sir Isaac Newton:
“The modern Baptists formerly called Anabaptists are the only people that
never symbolized with the papacy.” f724
In his debate with Bishop Purcell, Campbell said:
“Every sect and individual is passive in receiving a name. … The disciples of
Christ are the same race, call them Christians, Nazarenes, Gallileans,
Novatians, Donatists, Paulicians, Waldenses, Albigenses, Protestants or what
you please. A variety of designations affects not the fact which we allege; we
can find an unbroken series of Protestants — a regular succession of those
who protested against the corruptions of the Romish church and endeavored
to hold fast the faith once delivered to the saints from the first schism in the
year 250, A.D., to the present day; you may apply to them what description or
designation you please.” Supplement to Ath. Ora., vol. 4, p. 161 — in Howell
on Com., p. 255. f725
Again:
“The Baptist denomination f722 in all ages and all countries has been, as a
body, the constant asserters of the rights of man and the liberty of conscience.
They have often been persecuted by Pedobaptists; but they never politically
persecuted, though they have had it in their power.” f726
Mr. Burnett, one of the most ardent Campbellite editors, says: