Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

The False Decretals are another illustration of the unscrupulous forgeries of
Roman Catholic writers:
“About the middle of the ninth century a collection of canons and decretals
appeared in the Frankish Empire, which bore the venerable name of Isidore,
and embodied the so-called Isidoriana, but contained besides, also, a large
number of spurious decretals. This was composed of the Fifty Canones
Apostt.,which was followed by fifty-nine forged decretal letters, professedly
written by the first thirty popes from Clemens Romanus to Melchiades.” f88
These forgeries were laws in the Romish church, not called in question, until
the Magdeburg Centuriones exposed them, at the time of the Reformation.
Turrianus, a Jesuit, in 1572, entered the list as their defender, only to be routed.
Take the history of the Paulicians, who figure so prominently in the Baptist
perpetuity line, as another iliustration. Until recent discoveries — and they are
very limited —
“The only authorities whence we derive any knowledge of their sentiments
are. Photius and Peter Siculus, who wrote against them with great bitterness,
and on that account cannot be considered as worthy of entire credence.
Photius was archbishop of Constantinople, and died A.D. 890, and Peter
Siculus, a learned nobleman, died a few years later.” f89
Of the Paulicians, Jones, quoting Peter Siculus, says:
“To their excellent deeds the divine and orthodox emperors added this virtue,
that they ordered the Montanists and Manichaeans (by which epithets they
chose to stigmatize the Paulicians) to be capitally punished; and their books
wherever found to be committed to the flames also; that if any person was
found to have secreted them he was to be put to death and his goods
confiscated.” f91
Of another important section of the Baptist perpetuity line says Dr. Armitage:
“Early Bohemian books were burnt on suspicion or brand of heresy, and some
individuals boasted that they had burnt 60,000 copies of their sacred
literature.” f90
Of the German Baptists, another important link in the chain, Armitage says:
“The Jesuits attempted to blot this book (‘Reckoning of Their Faith’) out of
existence and nearly succeeded. No copy is known to remain of the first
edition, and but two of the second, one of which is in the Baptist Seminary at
Morgan Park, Illinois.” f92 “Their enemies distributed forged articles of faith,
called ‘Nicholasburg articles.’” f92
Of the early records of the Welsh Baptists — they are in the perpetuity line —
Davis says: