Thomas E Kresal
November 21, 2020
Baptist History, Heritage and Distinctives
What are the Teachings of Ecclesiastical History
They Sought to Exterminate Baptists and Now Insist We Accept their Societies
PART TEN
The Methodist church, through Mr. Wesley, says, “By baptism, we who are by nature the children of wrath, are made the children of God.”
The Campbellites teach that regeneration and immersion are synonymous terms; and that actual remission of sins, conferred in the act, is hut too notorious.
Now, how do these Baptists think it became them to treat every such Antichristian sect? Hear them: “And since it hath pleased God to make known these things to us by his servants, believing it to be his revealed will, according to the Holy Scriptures, and admonished thereto by the command of the Lord, we do, both inwardly and outwardly, depart from Antichrist.”
Had these Baptists affiliated with Papists, by calling them “brethren,” and recognizing their priests as Christian ministers, by inviting them into their pulpits, or “stands,” to preach for them, would they have appeared to the world to have “outwardly “departed from them as the ministers of an Antichristian society?
What the descendants of these Waldenses considered as “outwardly” departing from Antichrist, we learn even after Luther, and Calvin, and Henry VIII, had set up their divisions or kingdoms, by referring back to the testimony of Bullinger, (p. 173). The descendants of those very Protestants who joined with the Catholics, in the attempt to exterminate our churches from the earth, as too vile and pernicious to exist, today authoritatively demand that we shall recognize their societies as scriptural churches; their doctrine and ministers as evangelical; and their ordinances as valid and scriptural as our own. I say they do not reason to convince us; they do not courteously request it; but they imperiously, arrogantly, and dictatorially demand it of us.
Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from excerpts: Graves, James R.. Old Landmarkism: What is it? . First Vision Publishers. Kindle Edition.
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