Book Summary
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: J. Heaton Subjects: Baptists Great Britain Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / Protestant Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Baptist Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: "one Lord, one faith, one baptism." The task would be easy of accomplishment to show, that, on the principles involved in the application of this term, nearly all the purity and truth in the world, for generations, was found in the community of Anabaptists. Dr. Wall, with a candour which distinguishes him from many of his brethren, felt the impropriety of this appellation, and used the term Anti- psedobaptists. t Upon the narrative itself we now enter. Our starting- point will be the Tudor dynasty; and, passing on to the most eventful periods of British history, we shall close with the final expulsion of the Stuarts from the throne of these realms. CHAPTER I. THE TUDOR DYNASTY. The era which marked the accession to the throne of England of the descendant of the Welshman, was one pregnant with the most important consequences. Causes were operating which, in their ultimate issues, not only affected the social, the religious, and the commercial life of England, but more or less the condition of the civilized world. On some of these causes, we shall be pardoned if, for a moment, we detain the reader's attention. The discovery of the art of printing placed within the hands of the people a power, the influence of which is even yet augmenting. It gave a mighty impulse to the awakened mind of Europe, which led to the study of those great masterpieces of thought, w...
Book Details
| Book Name | The Early English Baptists: Volume II |
| Author | Benjamin D. Evans |
| Publisher | Baptist Standard Bearer (Apr 2001) |
| ISBN | 9781579788988 |
| Pages | 372 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1231 |