Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

y year? Yet, strange to say, the demand upon Baptists is not simply to show
that there were Baptist churches in the first century, and that we have glimpses
of them as they occasionally appear in the past centuries, but that unless we
can clearly see them in continuous line for the past eighteen centuries, they did
not exist unceasingly during that time!
What reasonable man questions the Biblical canon because of the scarcity of
the records for its history? Who denies the discovery of America because the
time and the name of its discoverer are unsettled?
Greenleaf says:
“In all human transactions, the highest degree of assurance to which we can
arrive, short of the evidences of our own senses, is that of probability.” f96
I, therefore, close this chapter with the remark. Strict conformity to this rule,
laid down by Greenleaf, which governs our courts of law, is all that the
Christian apologist asks of the infidel and all that this book asks of the
opponents of Baptist Church Perpetuity — not whether there is any room for
doubting Baptist Church Perpetuity, but whether there is a historical
“probability” of its being true.