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Armitage says:
“All these are scions of what was transplanted out of Holland in the year
1535, when two ships laden with Anabaptists fled into England. … here it
seems they have remained ever since.” f835
This is an adopted quotation from a “History of Anabaptists of High and Low
Germany,” written in 1642, “now among the Kings’ Pamphlets.” Barclay also
reports that in 1536 ‘Anabaptist societies in England sent a delegation to a
great gathering of their brethren in Westphalia. It appears, therefore, that the
origin of English Baptists, as a distinct sect, is to be found among the English
Baptist refugees who were driven from the Netherlands.” f835
Here see my previous chapter on English Baptists before and at the time of
John Smyth, which proves Baptists in England long before and up to 1535.
Crosby says of Smyth:
“If he were guilty of what they charge him with, it is no blemish on the
English Baptists, who neither approved of any such method, nor did they
receive their baptism from him.” f836
Dr. Smith, editor of The Standard at Chicago, formerly Lecturer on Church
History to the Chicago Baptist Theological Seminary, says:
“As we have said on former occasions, John Smyth is not counted on as one
of the founders of the Baptist denomination.” f837
Well did “Hercules Collins, a Baptist minister of Wapping,” England, in a
work published in 1691, say of the English Baptists having received their
baptism from John Smyth:
“It is absolutely untrue, it being well known to some who are yet alive how
false this assertion is; and if J.W. will but give a meeting to any of us, and
bring whom he pleases with him, we shall sufficiently show the falsity of
what is asserted by him in this matter, and in many other things which he hath
unchristianly asserted.” f838