Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

This was in July, 1688.
An act of a General Assembly of these same Baptists, hold in London, from
May the 3d to May the 24th, 1692, rends:
“That all churches make quarterly collections, in what method they think best
for the encouragement of the ministry, by helping those ministers that are
poor, and to educate brethren that may be approved, to learn the knowledge
of those tongues, wherein the Scriptures are written.” f961
Says Ivimey of the English Baptist church of this period:
“Their example, too, is worthy of imitation, as they strove to promote General
Association of the churches who were agreed in doctrine and discipline; in
providing the advantages of literature for young ministers; and in catechising
the children of the congregation. The weekly money subscription … was
adopted and recommended by a general assembly of the ministers and
messengers of more than one hundred churches in London in 1689.” f962
In the beginning of the last century Thomas Hollis, a London merchant, and
whom Crosby calls “a Baptist by profession “and who wrote of himself,” who
profess myself a Baptist,” f963 in the Harvard College founded two
professorships, one for divinity, the other for mathematics and material and
experimental philosophy. Out of the incomes as interest of his donations, he
ordered four score pounds per annum in our money to each of the professors,
and ten pounds apiece per annum to ten poor scholars of laudable character,
designed for the work of the gospel ministry, as, a help to defray the charge of
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their education.”
The Somerset Association, in England, at its meeting in 1655, recommended
that the churches
“follow after largeness of heart … in the maintenance of those who dispense
the word unto you, that such dispensers may give themselves wholly unto the
work.” f967
The Midland Association, in England, at its meeting in 1655, made a similar
recommendation, and that, by money, the churches enter into “a joint carrying
on of any part of the work of the Lord.” f968
On Mr. Hardcastle, accepting the call of the Broadmead church, 1671, we read:
“They subscribed every one according to their ability … to be delivered
twenty pounds f965 each quarter to the said pastor. And that it might be paid, it
was ordered that every person bring in their quarterage a month before every
usual quarter of the year. And so they all that could give came one after
another into the said room, and told what they were of themselves free to pay,
and then straightway returned out of the room into the meeting again. … It