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Waldenses, and through them a line of free and possibly evangelical churches,
back to the early days of the church.”
In view of these statements of representative scholars — to which an almost
unlimited number can be added — that HISTORY DOES NOT ASSIGN TO
BAPTIST CHURCHES A HUMAN FOUNDER AND A POST-APOSTOLIC DATE OF
ORIGIN IS SETTLED BEYOND DOUBT.
Turning to other denominations, we see there was nothing with the distinctive
marks of the Romish church until many centuries after the first. The
blasphemous title of: “Universal Bishop” was conferred on Boniface the III,
A.D. 606. This was the origin of the Pope and of the Romish church —
originated by the Emperor Phocas. In A.D. 756 the Pope became temporal
sovereign. f97
See Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, vol. 2, p. 1651-1675, for a
most scholarly and conclusive demonstration of the post-apostolic origin of
Popery; and with it, vol. 1, p. 209, demonstrating the non-apostolic origin of
the hierarchy. f98
By consulting Bergier’s Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 488; Dollinger’s First Age of the
Church, pp. 318, 319; Darra’s History of the Christian Church, p. 350; Alzog’s
Universal History, p. 105, it will be seen that Baptists are Scriptural as to
baptism while Romanism is an apostacy. Thus, Darra concedes that in the first
age of the church, “baptism was conferred by immersion.” Dollinger concedes:
“Like that of St. John, by immersion of the whole person, which is the only
meaning of the New Testament word. A mere pouring or sprinkling was not
thought of. St. Paul made this immersion a symbol of burial with Christ, and
the emerging a sign of resurrection with Him to a new life.”
Dollinger further concedes:
“There is no proof or hint in the Now Testament that the Apostles baptized
infants or ordered them to be baptized. When the baptism of households is
spoken of it is left doubtful whether they contained children and whether, if
so, they were baptized.” f99
The same thing is true of transubstantiation, confession to priests, of giving
only the bread to the laity, of purgatory, of penance, of image worship, of
burning candles before the altar, of every distinctive feature of the Romish
church. Thus, nothing is more certain than that, instead of the Romish church
having the Christian Succession, it has the succession of being spewed out of
Christ’s mouth. f100 But Dr. Duncan says: