By G.H. Orchard
Baptist Minister, Steventon, Bedfordshire, England, 1838, 1855
Way of Life Literature electronic edition, January 2000
Taken from the New Testament, the first fathers, early writers, and historians of all ages; chronologically arranged; exhibiting their churches with their order in various countries under different names from the establishment of Christianity to the present age: with correlative information, supporting the early and only practice of believers’ immersion: also observations and notes on the abuse of the ordinance, and the rise of minor and infant baptism thereon, intended for juvenile branches of their churches.
[Note from the publisher. This valuable out-of-print book was prepared for electronic publication by Way of Life Literature. The scanning was done by Pastor Doug Hammett and his sons, Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.]
Contents
Introductory
Chapter One
- Section I: Primitive Baptists
- Section II: Primitive Baptists Continued
- Section III: Primitive Baptists Continued
- Section IV: Primitive Baptists Continued
Chapter Two
- Section I: Churches in Italy
- Section II: African Churches
- Section III: African Churches Continued
- Section IV: Oriental Churches
- Section V: Oriental Churches Continued
- Section VI: Churches in Italy Resumed
- Section VII: Churches in Gaul
- Section VIII: Churches in France Continued
- Section IX: Churches in France Continued
- Section X: Churches in Bohemia
- Section XI: Churches in Piedmont
- Section XII: German and Dutch Baptists
"in all things that I said unto you, be circumspect." -- Exod. 23:13
"Now I praise you, brethren, that he keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you." -- 1 Cor. 9:2
