December 3, 2020
\nBaptist History, Heritage and Distinctives
\nNew England Baptists 1638-1776 AD \u2013 Old Landmarkers
\nWarren Assoc. Excludes Open Communion Churches
\nPART TEN<\/p>\n
The Warren Association, which last year voted to exclude the church in Newport, Rhode Island, for its open communion practices, or failure to discipline its pastor and those members who practiced this disorder, is the oldest Association in New England.<\/p>\n
It was organized in 1767. Three years after, such were the intolerable oppressions of the \u201cstanding order,\u201d in selling out their lands and homes to pay the tax to support the hireling ministers of the Puritans, that the Association resolved to appeal at once to the King and Council, and appointed a committee to collect grievances.<\/p>\n
That committee of leading ministers published the following in the Boston Post, August 20th, 1770, and I publish it\u2014 1, because it will give the Baptists of this age some idea of what our fathers suffered at the hands of those whom we are now taught to call \u201cevangelical brethren, \u201cand \u201cevangelical churches, \u201cand \u201cevangelical ministers,\u201d and what we would suffer today had our old persecutors only the power; and, 2, how our brethren regarded them, not as \u201cChristian brethren\u201d certainly\u2014which they were not \u2014 but enemies and persecutors.
\n(tomorrow \u2013more Puritan laws demand Baptist pay taxes or your land is seized)<\/p>\n
Presented by Thomas E. Kresal from excerpts: Graves, James R.. Old Landmarkism: What is it? . First Vision Publishers. Kindle Edition. Chapter 15<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MeWe \u2013 The Next-Gen Social Network<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n