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    Why I Am a Baptist
    Why I Am a Baptist
    Why I Am a Baptist
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    Why I Am a Baptist

    By Clarence Larkin

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    This work is not a personal history. For fifteen years I was a layman in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and having had my attention called to the subjects and mode of Baptism, after two years of careful study of the subject I deemed it my duty to unite with the Baptists. In my examination of the subject I found it necessary to read a great many tracts, pamphlets, and books, none of which covered completely the whole ground. Feeling the need of a comprehensive little work to place in the hands of young converts, and those desiring to know the distinctive principles of the Baptists, I prepared the following volume. I claim for it no originality. It is simply a compilation of facts, and the arguments of others, culled from numerous sources after careful and voluminous reading. But as he who would obtain credit for constructing a new edifice largely from old material, with the addition of a little new, must see to it that the old material is not too conspicuous, and as I remember that the class of persons for whom this is written care more to see the finished building than the method, manner, and material of its construction, I have arranged the facts and arguments culled, so that their source and authorship is not evident. At the same time I have acknowledged my indebtedness to all who may recognize their own offspring in the garb of a foreigner. About the Author: Rev. Clarence Larkin (1850–1924) was an American Baptist pastor, Bible teacher and author whose writings on Dispensationalism had a great impact on conservative Protestant visual culture in the 20th century. His intricate and influential charts provided readers with a visual strategy for mapping God's action in history and for interpreting complex biblical prophecies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateJun 5, 2022
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      Why I Am a Baptist - Clarence Larkin

      Preface.

      This work is not a personal history. For fifteen years I was a layman in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and having had my attention called to the subjects and mode of Baptism, after two years of careful study of the subject I deemed it my duty to unite with the Baptists.

      In my examination of the subject I found it necessary to read a great many tracts, pamphlets, and books, none of which covered completely the whole ground. Feeling the need of a comprehensive little work to place in the hands of young converts, and those desiring to know the distinctive principles of the Baptists, I prepared the following volume. I claim for it no originality. It is simply a compilation of facts, and the arguments of others, culled from numerous sources after careful and voluminous reading. But as he who would obtain credit for constructing a new edifice largely from old material, with the addition of a little new, must see to it that the old material is not too conspicuous, and as I remember that the class of persons for whom this is written care more to see the finished building than the method, manner, and material of its construction, I have arranged the facts and arguments culled, so that their source and authorship is not evident.

      At the same time I have acknowledged my indebtedness to all who may recognize their own offspring in the garb of a foreigner.

      The Author.

      September 1, 1887.

      I. Origin of the Baptists.

      Almost all the Anti-papist denominations date, either directly or indirectly, from the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Presbyterian Churches, came out from the Roman Catholic Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church came from the Protestant Episcopal Church.

      The Baptists, however, do not date from the Reformation. Though Anti-papists, they are not, in the technical and historical sense of the word, Protestants, though they have ever protested, and do now protest, against the heresies and abominations of the Romish Church.

      Just before his ascension, Jesus said to his disciples:

      All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Matt 28: 18–20; and Mark adds, He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark 16: 15, 16.

      The requirements of this Divine Commission, are —

      1. To preach the gospel to all nations.

      2. To baptize those who believe.

      3. To teach those who believe to observe all things whatsoever Christ commanded.

      This the apostles did. That the churches they founded were believed to be composed of regenerated persons, is evident from the fact that they addressed or referred to them as believers, saints, quickened, the faithful, the redeemed, the sanctified, the saved, etc. The apostolic were also independent bodies; that is, separate from the State and from each other, and self governed. They are spoken of individually as, the church at Jerusalem, the church at Antioch, the church at Smyrna. They are spoken of collectively as, the churches, the churches of Macedonia, the churches of Asia, all the churches.

      They are represented as electing their own officers, admitting, expelling, and restoring members, and acting as distinct, independent bodies.

      There is a remarkable similarity between the apostolic churches and the Baptist churches of to-day, in their modes and forms of worship.

      The apostolic churches were distinguished for the plainness and simplicity of their worship. They had no magnificent cathedrals, gorgeously arrayed priesthood, no prescribed ritual, no splendid religious shows, no pomp of music, no parade of images and paintings.

      Quietly, and unostentatiously, they met in some upper room, or other humble sanctuary, to sing, to pray, to read and expound the Scriptures, and to exhort one another to faithfulness in the Christian life.

      II. History of the Baptists.

      It is true that the line of descent cannot always be traced. Like a river, that now and then in its course is lost under the surface of the ground, and then makes its appearance again, the Baptists claim that, from the days of the apostles until the present time, there have not been wanting those persons, either separately or collected into churches, and known under different names, who, if now living, would be universally recognized as Baptists.

      Since the origin of the Baptists,

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