19 June 2006

Baptists!

"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel underground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents." ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

("Public Meeting of Our London Baptist Brethren," The New Park Street Pulpit, Volume VII, p. 225)

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