Tag: Baptist History

Updated April 22, 2000 (first published January 15, 2000) (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368,) - I have often been asked to recommend books on Baptist church history, and the following select bibliography is offered to assist those wh...

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and I will receive you."--2 Cor. 6:17. 1. At the commencement of the fourth century, distinct and separate bodies of professed Christians continued to exist throughout the Roman empire. Each church had an elder to preside, whil...

By G.H. OrchardBaptist Minister, Steventon, Bedfordshire, England, 1838, 1855Way 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 var...

"After my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock."--Acts 20:29. 1. The tragical conduct of Severus towards the disciples of Jesus has been mentioned. His son and successor, Caracalla, was mild in his measures. Several emperors followed in rather hasty succession, w...

"Now I command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly."--2 Thess. 3:6. 1. We have endeavored to detail, in the previous pages, the features of the Christian churches generally. While the interests of religion retain...

January 10, 2001 - The following description of the tortures of the Catholic inquisition in Germany in the 16th century is from J. Wylie’s History of Protestantism, Book 15, Chapter 11: Turn we now to the town of Nuremberg, in Bavaria. The zeal with which Duke Albert, the sovereign of Bavaria, enter...

1. On entering upon the details of the eleventh century, we are called to realize emotions of joy and sorrow; joy, because a succession of pious men are raised up to advocate the cause of truth and virtue; sorrow, because their labor of love everywhere is attended with opposition and suffering; thou...

"From the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent taketh it by force."--Matt. 11:12. 1. Ecclesiastical history must ever prove an interesting subject to every true lover of Zion. Not only does every saint feel personally interested in her blessing...

The following is the Advertisement that was printed in the first edition of Orchard's history in 1838: My Young Christian Friends, The reason for the following work is soon assigned. While on a visit to a friend in Somersetshire, in 1823, a minister of the Independent persuasion panegyrized Dr. Care...

"Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them," &c.--Rom. 16:17. 1. The history of these churches is not to be understood as comprehending the whole of that immense tract of land which extends from the Me...

"Here is the patience and the faith of the saints."--Rev. 13:10, 14:12. 1. The thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of Revelation should be read in connection with the history of these churches; and though we cannot give a full detail of their sufferings, we will essay to epitomize the statements give...

"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee," &c.--Rev. 3:10. 1. There is a range of mountains, the highest in Europe, extending from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean Seas, and separating Italy from France, Switzerland, and Germany. The principality of Piedmont derive ...