A Concise History of Foreign Baptists: Taken From the New Testament, The First Fathers, Early Writers, and Historians of All Ages

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This is a reprint of a work published in 1838 regarding Baptist History. The reason for the following work by Dr. G. H. Orchard, Baptist Minister, at Steventon, Bedfordshire, was to counter comments by respectable men that Baptists did not originate until Dr. William Carey or the Reformation. After considerable research, he became fully satisfied and established the proof that ‘the English Baptists, contending for the sufficiency of Scripture, and for Christian liberty to judge of its meaning, can be traced back in authentic documents, to the first Nonconformists and to the Apostles.’ Materials so accumulated on his hands as to enable him to furnish facts sufficient to make a compendious history of the Baptists in various provinces; from their rise, to their being scattered or extinguished. He preferred, in most instances, the testimonies of men hostile to his communion.