The Baptist Quarterly Review, Vol. 5

Download or read book The Baptist Quarterly Review, Vol. 5 written by J. R. Baumes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Baptist Quarterly Review, Vol. 5: 1883 It has heretofore been universally supposed that he and his party became members of the original English Church at Amsterdam, and that he was expelled from that Church on account of his Anabaptist opinions. This view is appar ently based on a passage in a book by Francis Johnson, in which he says: About thirteen years since, this Church, through persecution in England, was driven to come into these countries. Awhile after they came hither divers of them fell into the heresies of the Anabaptists - which are too common in these countries - and so persisting, were excommunicated by the As Johnson wrote in 1606, the very year that Smyth went to Amsterdam, and as he refers to what had taken place some time before, his reference can not be to Smyth, but to some unknown party Of Anabaptists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.