A History of the Baptists: From John the Baptist through The American Baptists

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This is a huge work, 840 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, that is republished because it is such an important work. This book covers the details of Baptist doctrine and principles from the beginning through the American Baptists. This is the perpetuity view, often called successionism; that is, churches which were not called Baptists but held to Baptist distinctive can be identified from the beginning. The author devoted years to the examination of the subject of Baptist history. Truth only is changeless, and only as any people have held to the truth in its purity and primitive simplicity has the world had an unchanging religion. The writer refused to be bound in his investigations by an iron obligation to show a succession of people who have held all the principles of any sect. A lamentable lack of intelligence exists amongst us in regard to our origin and principles as Baptists. This book is written for the purpose of putting within the reach of all such facts as shall inform them of their religious history and what it cost the fathers of our faith to defend the same.