Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

3. Of all the leading denominations, Baptists are the only church which has
kept and keeps before the world the blood before the water, Christ in
possession before Christ in profession; and are the only church which has,
consequently, ever been and are the great bulwark against baptismal
regeneration.
4. Of all the leading denominations, Baptists are the only church which has
never believed and does not believe that baptism is any part or any condition
of salvation to either the infant or the adult. Consequently, they have never
been even tinged by the doctrine of infant damnation, which has colored infant
baptism throughout its history. As Dr. Philip Schaff, the leading American
church historian, and he a Presbyterian, says:
“The Baptist and Quakers were the first Christian communities which
detached salvation from ecclesiastical ordinances and taught the salvation of
unbaptized infants and unbaptized but believing adults.” f1069
5. Of all the great religious bodies, Baptists are the only church which has
always taught and teaches there can be no proxy Christianity, by infant
baptism, etc., but, that salvation, its conditions and requirements are a strictly
personal matter, between only God and the individual soul.
6. Among all great denominations, Baptists are, consequently, the only church
which has always stood and stands for only a professedly regenerate or
spiritual church.
7. Among all great denominations, Baptists are the only churches which
contend and have ever con-tended for excluding from their church fellowship
all known non-spiritual persons.
8. So far as only a spiritual church is the doctrine and the practice of the
leading denominations it is due to the standing Baptist testimony, and the
persistent Baptist uncompromising war on an inherited and unregenerate
church membership.
9. Of all leading denominations which have not been originated within the
present century, Baptists are the only churches which have never been united
with the State, and which have never persecuted.
10. Baptist churches are the only churches which have, during the Christian
era, and until the present century, contended for separation of church and State
and for absolute liberty of conscience.
11. By their principles of liberality, of freedom of conscience and of every
Christian being a priest to God and Christian ruler, Baptists have given the
United States their religious freedom. This they have done at the cost of their