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63. Severe Persecutions, A.D. 130

20 Nov 2020, by AHB Library

Severe Persecutions Of The Believers About The Year 130

About this time, writes P. J. Twisck, the instruments of the devil could not invent punishments severe enough, but what they considered the Christians worthy of. For they were watched in their houses as well as without; men cried out against them in all public places; they were scourged, stoned, and dragged about; their goods were plundered; they were…

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In: Thieleman J. Van Braght, Martyrs Mirror | Tags: Baptists, Christians, Martyrdom, Persecution

Chapter 7: The Baptists

3 Oct 2016, by AHB Library

“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body.”—1 Corinthians 12:13

In sketching some of God’s witnesses among the Baptists in the nineteenth century, Samuel Eyles Pierce (1746-1829) should be first mentioned, because in his earlier years he sat under the ministry of Toplady, Romaine, and Hawker, with the latter of whom he was on terms of close friendship till the end of the life of the Vicar of Charles. Romaine’s ministry was especially useful to him. He writes: “In a subsequent sermon, Mr. Romaine said, ‘Believers, you that are believers, God looks upon you as He doth on Christ; and loves you with the love He doth Him.’ ‘I looked up,’ says Mr. Pierce, ‘with amazement! Oh, thought I, if I can find this in the Word of God, it is the greatest truth I ever heard. I will go home and search the Bible. I conceive the 17th of John is the most likely place to find it.’ I constantly went every Lord’s Day, and I was so swallowed up in hearing that I always stood; nor did I lose one single sentence. I received it into my very heart. Mr. Romaine often expressed himself thus…

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In: John E. Hazelton, "Hold-Fast" (Complete) | Tags: Baptists, Calvinism, Duncan, Foreman, Gadsby, Grace, Hazelton, Hemington, Kershaw, Particular, Philpot, Pierce, Sears, Strict, Tiptaft, Triggs, Tyron, Warburton, Wells

Chapter 9: The Future

3 Oct 2016, by AHB Library

“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His Name.”—Malachi 3:16

Neither Luther or Calvin held those shallow Pelagian views, now so common, of a gradual amelioration and Christianising of the world. Calvin writes, “It is a superstition to think that the world is improving in religion and morality. It is not improving but it is always going back.” Luther says, “I know that the world is becoming epicurean; that is to say, they will lose faith in God and immortality, and give themselves up to the pleasures of the things of this world, and then suddenly shall be heard the voice, ‘Behold, the Bridegroom cometh.'” These statements are Scriptural; we have no warrant to expect the conversion of the world, but in the words of James to the Church at Jerusalem, God visits the…

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In: John E. Hazelton, "Hold-Fast" (Complete) | Tags: Authorised, Baptists, Bishops, Calvinism, Communion, Deacons, Duty, Elders, Faith, Free, Gospel, KJV, Law, Offer, Particular, Pastors, Strict, Version

Error Concerning the Covenant of Grace to be Resisted

9 Dec 2015, by AHB Library

William Styles published a book in 1902 entitled, “A Guide to Church Fellowship, as Maintained by Primitive, or Strict and Particular Baptists”. On pages 31 and 32, under the general heading, “ Error Concerning the Covenant of Grace to be Resisted”, the following statement is found:

“Any so-called Gospel which expressly or implicitly denies these truths [anti-duty-faith and anti-free-offer]—which represents the regeneration and conversion of sinners to be contingent on the earnestness and activity of “Gospel workers”—or the progress of God’s salvation…

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In: • The Duty-Faith And Free-Offer Issue | Tags: Baptists, Calvinism, Duty, Faith, Free, Fullerism, Grace, Offer, Particular, Sovereign, Strict

Duty-Faith is Denied by All Strict/Particular Baptists

9 Dec 2015, by AHB Library

William Styles published a book in 1902 entitled, “A Guide to Church Fellowship, as Maintained by Primitive, or Strict and Particular Baptists”. On pages 78 and 79, under the general heading, “Duty-Faith is Denied by All Strict and Particular Baptists”, the following statement is found:

“Duty-faith is the doctrine that it is the duty of natural men to exercise spiritual Faith in the Lord Jesus, and so to obtain salvation. Its emphatic denial is a distinguishing feature of the Strict and…

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In: • The Duty-Faith And Free-Offer Issue | Tags: Baptists, Calvinism, Duty, Faith, Free, Fullerism, Gospel, Grace, Offer, Particular, Strict

Introduction

10 Sep 2013, by Jared Smith

Clifford Pond served in the pastoral ministry among Grace Baptist churches for more than 50 years. Having seen the need for congregations to better understand the complexities of adopting a plurality of elders, he wrote a book entitled “Only Servants.” The back cover of the book offers a reason why the author is a respected authority on the subject: “Clifford Pond writes out of a lifetime of pastoral ministry, having served churches in Suffolk and Surrey as well as exercising a wider ministry at various times by responsible leadership in young people’s fellowships, associations of churches and the council of Grace Baptist Mission.”

In the fifth chapter, under the heading “Plurality of Elders and Deacons”, Mr. Pond writes:

“Since the Second World War every part of life generally has been questioned, and churches too have been put under the scrutiny of Scripture…For example, in the earlier part of this century the most common structure in local churches was a pastor with a group of deacons. In the absence of a pastor…

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In: • The Plural Eldership Issue,Jared Smith, Eldership | Tags: • History, • The Church, Baptists, Deacons, Elders, Government, Leaders, Officers, Pastors, Polity, Presbyterian

Chapter 5: The Expansion of the Church

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

A.D. 29. After the day of Pentecost the disciples went everywhere gladly preaching the word, while great success attended their ministry. In a very short time a second church was planted at Samaria, and soon another at Antioch. Persecutions were now inflicted upon the Christians everywhere, and Saul was on his way to Damascus, with authority to arrest men and women, and breathing out threatenings and slaughter against all Christians, when he was suddenly stricken down and made to cry out for mercy. Being converted to the Christian faith, he attached himself to the church at Antioch.

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: • The Church, Baptism, Baptists, Bishop, Cathari, Catholic, Donatists, Martyrs, Novatians, Pastor, Paterines, Puritans

Chapter 8: Waldensean Period (Continued)

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

ANABAPTISTS.—In the year A. D. 500, we find Anabaptists existing in France and Spain. ”In the language of councils at this period, Christians are denominated, either from their opinions, heretics, or with a view to their discipline, schismatics; but there was one article of discipline in which they were all agreed, and from which they were frequently named, and that was BAPTISM. They held the Catholic community not to be the church of Christ; they therefore rebaptized such as had been baptized in that community, before they admitted them to their fellowship. For this conduct they were called Anabaptists.”

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: Baptists, Donatists, Novatians, Paulicians, Waldenseans

Chapter 9: Waldensean Period (Continued)

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

ALBIGENSES.—In the year 1019, we find the Catholics inflicting their accustomed persecutions upon the Albigenses in France. The Catholic idea of salvation by works, was so completely rooted and grounded in the people of that faith that no effort was made to propagate their doctrines except by compulsion. The idea had become universal, among them, that out of their church was no salvation, and that the end justified the use of any means, howsoever wicked, which might be used to compel submission to their faith. “With the Catholic, out of the church was death; within it was life, and in its maddening thirst for power, the Catholic party sought to crush everything beneath its feet, which it could not gather within its folds.

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: Arnoldists, Baptists, Catholics, Martyrs, Paterines, Paulicians, Persecution, Puritans

Chapter 13: Heresies and Persecutions

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

From A.D. 426 to 1500.

Very early in the history of Christianity, as has already been observed, heresies of different kinds commenced to creep into the churches. The true churches being independent of each other, in their organization and government, were but little affected by these heresies. Some of the churches, however, soon lost their independent form, and several combining together formed synods. A number of churches formed a single diocese and were under the control of one bishop. When these churches forming a single diocese became corrupted by false doctrine . . .

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: Baptism, Baptists, Greek Catholic, Roman Catholic, Transubstantiation

Chapter 15: Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters; with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness; and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet-color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls . . .”—Rev. 17:1-6.

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: Baptists, Catholic, Reformation, Reformed, Reformers

Chapter 16: Waldensean Period (Concluded)

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

We left off the history of the Waldenses at the close of chapter twelfth, in order to give some account of the heresies and corruptions of the Catholic party, which gave rise to the reformation of the sixteenth century.

We are told that when the witnesses “shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them, and shall kill them.” (Rev. 11:7)

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: Baptists, Catholics, Persecution, Reformers

Chapter 19: Persecutions in America

12 Sep 2011, by AHB Library

The Baptists had hardly got settled in America when they begun to experience persecutions similar to those experienced by their ancestors in the old countries.

Massachusetts was at this time under the rule of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the Congregationalists, or Puritans, as they were generally termed, were established by law. In the year 1664, an act was passed containing the following clause:

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In: J. A. Shackelford, Baptist History (Complete) | Tags: America, Baptists, Imprisonment, Martyrs, Persecution, United States

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63. Severe Persecutions, A.D. 130

Chapter 7: The Baptists

Chapter 9: The Future

Error Concerning the Covenant of Grace to be Resisted

Duty-Faith is Denied by All Strict/Particular Baptists

Introduction

Chapter 5: The Expansion of the Church

Chapter 8: Waldensean Period (Continued)

Chapter 9: Waldensean Period (Continued)

Chapter 13: Heresies and Persecutions

Chapter 15: Reformation of the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 16: Waldensean Period (Concluded)

Chapter 19: Persecutions in America

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