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He has not involved himself in inextricable confusion, absurdties and
contradictions.
ft946 Why does not some opponent of Church Perpetuity attempt to prove, by
these different customs, that Baptists of the nineteenth century are not the
successors of Baptists of the eighteenth!
ft947 Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Bap., vol. 1, p. 299.
ft948 Prof. Whitsitt’s Lect. to his Classes.
ft949 They sometimes make little gifts to their preachers. But they would so
starve them out that I have never known one of them whom the church, by
supporting, freed from the entanglements of the world.
ft950 The Anti-missionary Baptist preachers do.
ft951 Thus, we see that Paul teaches that gospel ministers are to be as well
supported as were the Jewish.
ft952 Oyw>nion, here rendered “wages,” Thayer’s Lex., defines: “A soldier’s
pay, allowance that part of a soldier’s pay given to soldiers in place of pay,
i.e., rations] and the money in which he is paid.” Here is express authority
for “salaried preachers.” But it is no authority for the wickedness of
making money the object and motive of preaching.
ft953 London Confession of 1689, chap. 26. sec. 10; in Cutting’s Hist.
Vindication. p. 168; Crosby’s Hist. Baptists, vol. 3, p. 102; Goadby’s Bye
Paths to Baptist History, p. 228.
ft954 Crosby’s Hist. Baptists, vol. 3, p. 258.
ft955 The position of “Missionary Baptists.”
ft956 Crosby’s Hist. Baptists, vol. 3, pp. 251-252., Ivimey’s Hist. Eng. Baptists,
vol. 1, pp. 491-493; Goadby’s Bye Paths to Bap. Hist., p. 205.
ft957 Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Bap., vol. 4, p. 7; Goadby’s Bye Paths to Bap. filet., p.
216.
ft958 A Reformation many of our churches are suffering for.
ft959 Crosby’s Inst. Eng. Baptists, vol. 4, pp. 293-295.
ft960 Crosby’s last volume of History was published A.D. 1740; Ivimey’s in
1830. Crosby’s was published long before the split; Ivimey’s when It was
occurring. About 1792 — long before the “split” was thought of or an
Anti-mission Baptist existed — the “Particular Baptist Society for
Propagating the Gospel Among the Heathen” was organized.
ft961 Crosby’s Hist. Eng. Baptists, vol. 3, p. 265; Goadby’s Bye Paths to Bap.
Hist. p. 209.
ft962 Ivimey’s Hist. Eng. Bap., vol. 2, p. 10; of its Introduction.