Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

ft1024 Burkitt’s and Read’s Hist. Kehukee Association, p. 94.
ft1025 Burkitt’s and Read’s met. Kehukee Association, pp. 95-98.
ft1026 Ideal, pp. 161-162.
ft1027 In Biblical Recorder.
ft1028 To add to the foregoing testimony would be easy. Thus, in the eleventh
century, “the Albigenses had congregations and schools of their own.” —
Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 47. Long before the Reformation
the Baptists of Bohemia kept a school for young ladies, and their mode of
education and the purity of their manners were in such high repute that the
daughters of a very great part of the nobility of Bohemia were sent thither
to be educated.” — Robinson’s Ecclesiastical Researches, p. 532. Dr. Ray
quotes from Perrin’s History Waldenses, p. 117: “In the year 1229 the
Waldenses had already spread themselves in great numbers throughout all
Italy. They had schools in Valcamonica alone, and they sent money from
all parts of their abode in Lombardy for the maintenance and support of
said schools.” — Baptist Succession, p. 40. “Bristol College, England, was
founded in 1710 for the education of Baptist ministers. This was more than
a century before the origin of the Anti-mission Baptists. Before their origin
it had educated many preachers.” — Cramp’s History of the Baptists, p.
491.
ft1029 Benedict says of the Anti-mission Baptists: “A large amount of their
documents are before me which contain the resolutions and decrees of their
churches and associations. From these it appears that if any of their
members shall unite with any society for the promotion of the cause of
benevolence or moral reform, they shall, ipso facto be expelled from their
fellowship and communion; the missionary, Bible, tract and Sunday school
and temperance societies are especially named; and generally a sweeping
clause is added, embracing the ‘so-called’ benevolent institutions of the
day! These prohibitions extend not only to actual membership in these
bodies, but to any contributions of their own personal funds for their
support! No colic lion for any of these objects can be made in any of the
churches where they have the control, nor are their members allowed to
cast in their mites when the, box goes around In any neighboring
congregation in which they may be present. This, I believe, is a picture of
what are called the non-fellowshipping resolutions of the anti-mission
party. This is a yoke we may well suppose could not set easy on the necks
of independent Baptists; many for peace sake may submit to it for awhile,
but it will not be long endured by any but those who have thoroughly
imbibed, esprit du corps, the spirit of the party.” — Benedict’s History of
the Baptists, p. 936.