Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

property, their good name, their liberty and their lives. This, too, in the face of
not only Romish but of Protestant Pedobaptist union of church and State, and
of persecution. As Hallam, a secular historian, of Protestant Pedobaptists, well
says:
“Persecution is the deadly original sin of the reformed churches; that which
cools every honest man’s zeal for their cause, in proportion as his reading
becomes extensive.” f1070
Dr. Leonard Bacon, a Pedobaptist, in “Genesis of the New England Churches,”
remarks of the Baptists:
“It has been claimed for these churches, that from the Reformation they have
been always foremost and always consistent in maintaining the doctrine of
religious liberty. Let me not be understood as calling in question their right to
so great an honor.”
12. As Guizot, in his “History of Civilization,” shows that the despotical and
oppressive civil governments of Europe originated from the government of the
Romish church, so Gervinus, Philip Schaff and other historians have shown
that the free church government principles of Baptists have “extended
themselves throughout the United States,” “have given laws to a continent”
and are “at the bottom of all democratic movements now shaking the nations of
Europe.”
13. Rhode Island, the first absolutely free government of the Christian era, was
a Baptist government.
14. A Baptist originated the marginal references to our English Bible — John
Canne, in 1673. Baptist loyalty to the Bible, Baptist study of it and comparison
of Scripture with Scripture, naturally led to the meeting of the necessity of
these references.
15. The first public free school from which has originated the excellent free
school system of the United States, was conceived and originated by Dr. John
Clarke — a Baptist preacher — in Rhode Island, in 1675.
16. While the Romish, the Episcopal and the Methodist — the Methodist was
not then separated from the Episcopal, but was a party to it — churches were
almost solidly with Great Britain against the American colonists, in their
struggle for independence, Baptists were the foremost promoters of the
glorious Revolution, and the name of but one Baptist is given who was a Tory.
17. Bible Societies were originated by a Baptist — Joseph Hughes — being
the prime mover of the British and Foreign Bible Society. This is the natural
result of the Baptist pre-eminent love to all the teaching of the Bible and
loyalty to all its commands.