“By all which you see by plentiful Evidence, that Christ hath not been without his Witnesses in every Age, not only to defend and assert the true, but to impugn, and to reject (yea even to death it self) the false Baptism. Insomuch that we are not left without good Testimony of a Series of Succession, that by God’s Providence hath been kept afoot, of this Great Ordinance of Believers Baptism even since the first times.”
The Succession of Believers Baptism, Henry D’Anvers, A Treatise of Baptism, London: Fran. Smith, 1674, pp. 321-322.
Great Quote
ReplyDeleteOur forefathers did not invent believers baptism during the Protestant reformation. They practiced believers baptism since it was instituted, during all ages till the present.
It is noteworthy that the Ana Baptist contacted Luther, thinking he would be an ally, only to be rebuffed. They were obviously in existence prior to Luther.
Jim