EXPLANATION OF THE ROMISH CHURCH TREE. This tree begins with a small trunk and increases in size as the beginning and the growth of the Romish Church. The sign board on it, on which is "Romish Church, A. D. 606," shows where we must date the real first Romish Church, because there is the first real universal bishop or pope. "Baptismal regeneration," "affusion," “infant baptism," etc., as they appear on the tree are recorded in history. Higher up the tree is seen the growth of modern sects out of the Romish, together with their branches and their fruits as corresponding to the nature of the Romish tree out of which they have grown. Historians of different creeds (as seen in the chapter of this book on the Fruits of Baptist Churches,) prove the leading modern churches but the Romish Church partly reformed the Reformation incomplete. On baptism saving, Dr. Charles Hodge, Presbyterian, says: "Baptism is not only a sign and a seal, it is a means of grace." Of infant baptism, he says: "It assures them of salvation if they do not renounce their covenants. See my book on Campbellism, pp. 5-20, where the Presbyterian faith in baptism as saving is abundantly shown. As to Methodism teaching water salvation, John Wesley, its originator, says: "By baptism, we, who are 'by nature the children of wrath' are made the children of God."2 Substantially the same statement is read in recent Methodist theological works, the Discipline and the Church hymn books. All this-see Chapter XXVIII of this book on Fruits of Baptist Churches-results in an unregenerate and worldly church. Campbellism having been originated by the Campbells and Stone, who were Presbyterian preachers, it is of Presbyterian growth. See my book on Campbellism. 1 Hodge's Syst. Theolo., vol. 3, pp. 589, 590. 2 Wesley's Doc. Tracts, p. 249. OR THE CONTINUOUS EXISTENCE OF BAPTIST CHURCHES FROM THE BY THE BIBLE AND BY HISTORY. By W. A. JARREL, D. D., Author of "Liberty of Conscience and the Baptists;" "Old INTRODUCTION -BY- REV. W. W. EVERTS, JR., Formerly in the Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the Chicago "Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not pre- 1894: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, J35 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C., May, 1894, by W. A. JARREL. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 73686 DEDICATION. TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED PROF. R. J. W. BUCKLAND, D.D., AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, WHO, NOT LONG BEFORE HIS DECEASE, WROTE ME HE WAS WORK ING ΤΟ PROVE THE PERPETUITY OF BAPTIST CHURCHES THE APOSTOLIC AGE THE PRESENT; FROM то TO THE MEMORY OF THE LAMENTED J. R. GRAVES, LL.D., TO WHOM, MORE THAN TO ANY OTHER MAN OF THIS AGE, BAPTISTS ARE INDEBTED FOR FAITHFULNESS THE TO DENOMINATIONAL TRUTH AND FOR DE- TO MY DEAR WIFE, WHO HAS, IN THE MASTER'S SPIRIT, SO HEROICALLY HELPED ME BEAR THE LABORS AND THE I AFFECTIONALLY DEDICATE IT. W. A. J. |