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Mr. Orchard: “I have demonstrated so far as human testimony is allowed to prove any fact that the Baptist church, as the Church of Christ, has existed from the day of Pentecost to this privileged period.” f75 John A. Broadus, D.D., LL. D.: “And it would seem to be entirely possible and very probable that the patient research of generations to come may gather material for a much nearer approach to a continuous history of Baptists than is now practicable.” Many years ago Dr. Benedict, a Baptist historian, wrote: “The more I study the subject the stronger are my convictions that if all the facts in the case could be disclosed a very good Succession could be made out.” f76 Dr. Joseph Belcher: “It will be seen that Baptists claim the high antiquity of the Christian church. They can trace a succession of those who believe the same doctrine and administer the same ordinances directly up to the apostolic age.” f77 The late William Williams, D.D., when Professor of Church History in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, refuting a statement that he taught that Baptists originated with the Reformation, wrote September 5, 1876: “I now hasten to reply that it is not the teaching of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, through its Professor of History, that the origin of Baptists is to be traced to the Church of Rome in the sixteenth century. … The Baptist churches, in my opinion, are of divine origin, and originated in the first century under the preaching and founding of the Apostles of our Lord.” The lamented Charles H. Spurgeon wrote: “We care very little for the ‘historical argument,’ but if there be anything in it all, the plea ought not to be filched by the clients of Rome, but should be left to that community which all along has held ‘by one Lord, one faith and one baptism.’ … It would not be impossible to show that the first Christians who dwelt in the land were of the same faith and order as the church now called Baptist. … The time will arrive when history will be rewritten.” Geo. C. Lorimer, D.D.: “There are reasons for believing that the Baptists are the oldest body of Christians who dissent from the assumption of the Romish church. Historically they are not Protestants, for while they sympathize with the protest offered by the reformers at the Diet of Spire, 1529, in which this now famous name originated, their existence antedates it by many centuries.”
There has probably never been a superior in Baptist history to the late, lamented Dr. Buckland, Professor of Church History in Rochester Theological Seminary. Just before his death he wrote me that he was a strong believer in Baptist Church Perpetuity and that he was, at that time, preparing to prove it from history. In his Madison Avenue lectures Dr. Buckland says: “Have Baptists a history? Prejudice and passion have always answered, no.” f78 On the next page he says: “From the time when Christ walked the earth down to the present there has not been a period in which they have not suffered persecution. From the age of John the Baptist to the massacre in Jamaica, bigoted religionists have not ceased first to slaughter and then to slander them.” On page 314 he says: “We cannot accept a place in the catalogue of sects or broken schismatical fragments of God’s church.” To this could be added like statements from Drs. A.C. Dayton, T.T. Eaton, J.M. Cramp, J. Newton Brown, J. Wheaton Smith, J.R. Graves, D.B. Ray, William R. Williams, T.J. Morgan, S.H. Ford, both W.W. Everts, William Cathcart, T.G. Jones, D.D. Swindall, etc., etc., etc. Indeed, Armitage, indirectly conceded his position not in harmony with Baptists, when he says, at the conclusion of an assault on Church Perpetuity: “The principles above set forth are not generally adopted in Baptist history.” f79
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There has probably never been a superior in <strong>Baptist</strong> history to the late,<br />
lamented Dr. Buckland, Professor of <strong>Church</strong> History in Rochester Theological<br />
Seminary. Just before his death he wrote me that he was a strong believer in<br />
<strong>Baptist</strong> <strong>Church</strong> <strong>Perpetuity</strong> and that he was, at that time, preparing to prove it<br />
from history. In his Madison Avenue lectures Dr. Buckland says: “Have<br />
<strong>Baptist</strong>s a history? Prejudice and passion have always answered, no.” f78<br />
On the next page he says:<br />
“From the time when Christ walked the earth down to the present there has<br />
not been a period in which they have not suffered persecution. From the age<br />
of John the <strong>Baptist</strong> to the massacre in Jamaica, bigoted religionists have not<br />
ceased first to slaughter and then to slander them.”<br />
On page 314 he says:<br />
“We cannot accept a place in the catalogue of sects or broken schismatical<br />
fragments of God’s church.”<br />
To this could be added like statements from Drs. A.C. Dayton, T.T. Eaton,<br />
J.M. Cramp, J. Newton Brown, J. Wheaton Smith, J.R. Graves, D.B. Ray,<br />
William R. Williams, T.J. Morgan, S.H. Ford, both W.W. Everts, William<br />
Cathcart, T.G. Jones, D.D. Swindall, etc., etc., etc. Indeed, Armitage,<br />
indirectly conceded his position not in harmony with <strong>Baptist</strong>s, when he says, at<br />
the conclusion of an assault on <strong>Church</strong> <strong>Perpetuity</strong>: “The principles above set<br />
forth are not generally adopted in <strong>Baptist</strong> history.” f79
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