Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

In the year 603, Augustine, called also Austin, was sent to convert the Welsh
Baptists to the Romish church. Bede records that they met him, charging him
with pride, contradicted all he said, and that he proposed to them:
“You act in many particulars contrary to our custom, or rather the custom of
the universal church, and yet, if you will comply with me in these three
points, viz.: to keep Easter at the due time; to administer baptism, by which
we are again born to God, according to the custom of the Roman Apostolic
Church; and jointly with us preach the Word of God to the English nation, we
will readily tolerate all the other things you do, though contrary to our
custom.” f843
Bede says: To this
“they answered, they would do none of these things, nor receive him as their
archbishop; for they alleged among themselves that ‘if he would not rise up to
us, how much more will he condemn us, as of no worth, if we shall begin to
be under his subjection?’ To whom the man of God, Augustine, is said in a
threatening manner, to have foretold, that in case they would not join in unity
with their brethern, they should be warred upon by their enemies; and if they
would not preach the way of life to the English nation, they should at their
hands, undergo the vengeance of death. All which, through the dispensation
of divine judgment, fell out exactly as he had predicted.” f844
But Bede states that fifty of their ministers “escaped by flight” from the
slaughter of “twelve hundred” of their ministerial brethren. f844 These were
amply sufficient to propagate the true gospel; thus, preserving the perpetuity
line to the Reformation.
Fabian, who died in the year 1512, states that Augustine’s proposition to those
Welsh Baptists was: “That ye give Christendom to children.” Thus read the
editions of 1516, 1533, 1542. The last edition, which is not so correct an
edition, made in 1811, reads: “That ye administer baptism … as to the manner
of the church of Rome,” as evidently meaning, as Danvers, Davye, Ivimey and
“several Cambro Americans maintain” the same as to baptize infants. f845
Of Augustine’s time, Goadby says:
“A large and flourishing body of British Christians were now living in Wales,
whither they had sought refuge from the cruelties of the Saxons. Undisturbed
in their liberties and their worship in the fastnesses of Wales, they had waxed
stronger and stronger. At Caerleon, in the south, and at Bangor Is-y-Coed, in
the north, large and flourishing monasteries, or, more properly speaking,
missionary stations, were established. Bangor alone could number, in
association with it, over two thousand ‘brethren.’ These societies had little in
common with Romanish monasteries. The greater part of the ‘brethren’ were
married laymen, who followed their worldly callings, and those among the m
who showed aptitude for study and missionary work were permitted to give