Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

ft529 This shows that Baptists yet have no history worthy of the name history.
ft530 In The Bap. Quar. Rev., vol. 12, No. 43.
ft531 Palfry’s Hist. New Eng., vol. 1, p. 414.
ft532 May’s Const. Hist. Eng., vol. 2, p. 269.
ft533 Froude’s Hist. Eng., vol. 2, p. 358.
ft534 Bancroft Hist. U.S., vol. 2, p. 457 — old ed.
ft535 Every Baptist church is a complete church. No Baptist church is united to
any other Baptist church by church organization. From the point of church
organization no Baptist church is connected with any other Baptist church.
Just as each man s as completely a man as it there were no other man in
existence, so each Baptist church is as completely a church as if no other
church existed. The only connection, therefore, that Baptist churches have
to each other s that of likeness, spirit and mutual relation and obligation to
their Lord and to His cause. Much contusion In examining Baptist Church
Perpetuity grows out of the mind being prepossessed by the Romish
doctrine of the church being made of all the congregations and their
hierarchy, all In one organization, and thus connected by outward
organization. I mean only by historical connection of Baptist churches that
they are connected by the bond of spiritual brotherhood and service to their
Lord, by Identity of doctrine and practice and by one being the production
of another, as one college produces another, or as offspring s the
production of parent.
ft536 Neander’s Mat. Chr. Ch., vol. 1, p. 239.
ft537 Robinson’s Eccl. Resh., p. 121.
ft538 Schaff-Herzog Ency., vol. 2, p. 1562.
ft539 Schaff-Herzog Ency., vol. 2, p. 1562.
ft540 Idem, vol. 2, p. 1670.
ft541 Idem, vol. 2, p. 1671.
ft542 Haft’s Hist. Chr. Ch., p. 66.
ft543 Guericke’s Ch. Hist., vol. 1, p. 278.
ft544 Fisher’s Hist. Chr. Ch., p.109.
ft545 Hase’s Hist. Chr. Ch. p. 67.
ft546 Baptist Layman’s Book. p. 17.
ft547 Gieseler’s Ch. Hist., vol. 1, p. 255; see also Socrates’ Eccl. Hist., Book 4,
ch. 28.
ft548 Schaff’s Hist. Chr. Ch. vol. 1, p. 451.