This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...reproved and ashamed, and the world be warned. How Presbyterian ministers, or members who have a knowledge of these facts, can presume, in the face of these things, to demand of Baptists to recognize and treat them as ministers, by inviting them into our pulpits to preach, as we only do qualified ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...reproved and ashamed, and the world be warned. How Presbyterian ministers, or members who have a knowledge of these facts, can presume, in the face of these things, to demand of Baptists to recognize and treat them as ministers, by inviting them into our pulpits to preach, as we only do qualified ministers, and to commune with them as baptized persons, and to acknowledge and treat them as evangelical Churches, is passing strange to us! They all say their creeds and confessions teach that none are entitled to the Lord's Supper, or ought to be invited to partake of it, unless duly baptized; if there is any doubt about the matter, the Supper should not be offered until the doubt was removed; and yet, they confess to us, through their General Assembly, that they can not tell whether they, themselves, any one of them, have been duly baptized; ay, more, confess that they are not baptized, having received their baptisms from the Man of Sin and the Mother of Harlots. We think that the action of the General Assembly forever settles the vexed question of open communion. Anabaptists never did commune with Rome, or those who received her baptisms. The Baptists of to-day are-the descendants of the Anabaptists who have, for so many centuries, witnessed for Christ, against the corruptions of Antichrist. We leave the question with the Protestants of this age to answer, if they can, and preserve their ecclesiastical existences: Are The Baptisms Of The Papal Hierarchy Valid Baptisms. CHAPTER IV. TWO OTHER QUESTIONS. Can Protestants oppose the Papacy without being slain by the 'Papacy? Can Baptists oppose the Papacy without destroying Protestants? TAKE the negative of both questions. How can two unite to war, except they be agreed? They are violently...
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