A History of the Baptists
Overview
This title is part of the Classic Baptist Books collection, published by the Roger Williams Heritage Archives as part of its mission to distribute to the Baptist world works which have gone out of print or are of significant value to Baptists.
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“This work has been acclaimed by Baptist historical scholars to be the most accurate and well-balanced treatment carefully detailing the history of the New Testament people who were called simply ‘Baptists’ the last three and one-half centuries.” (source)
“IV. The world is vastly more indebted to a line of individual men who have contended for the truth, each by himself, than to any organic churches, which can be traced by visible succession from the apostles, under any name whatever.” (Page 6)
“But this matter of visible Church succession is organically connected with the idea of Church infallibility, rather than of likeness to Christ.” (Page 2)
“Is an unbroken, visible, and historical succession of independent Gospel Churches down from the apostles, essential to the valid existence of Baptist Churches today, as apostolic in every sense of the word? This question suggests another, namely, Of what value could any lineal succession be as compared with present adherence to apostolic truth?” (Page 1)
“He wrote a tract against ‘Revelry and the Abuse of the Tongue,’ and dedicated it to Achatio, a citizen of Constance” (Page 344)
- Title: A History of the Baptists
- Author: Thomas Armitage
- Publisher: Roger Williams Heritage Archives
- Print Publication Date: 1886
- Logos Release Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Baptists › History
- Resource ID: LLS:45.20.1745
- Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:36:30Z