OF THE BAPTIST CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES BY ALBERT HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., LL.D. PROFESSOR OF CHURCH HISTORY, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, WACO, TEXAS SIXTH EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED New York Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright, 1894 and 1898, by THE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE COMPANY Copyright, 1915, by CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION.-Distinctive Principles.-Relation to other Bodies. -Ancient Perversions of Baptism.-Other Ancient Perversions.- Medieval Antipedobaptists.-Medieval Evangelical Life.—The An- abaptists. The Zwickau Prophets.-The Swiss Anabaptists.—An- abaptists of Silesia, Austria, and Augsburg.—Anabaptists of Strass- burg and Hesse.-Moravian Anabaptists.-Chiliastic Anabaptists. -Munster Kingdom.-The Mennonites.—Italian and Polish Anabaptists.—Remarks.—English General Baptists.-General Bap- CHAP. I. ROGER WILLIAMS AND LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE....... CHAP. II. ROGER WILLIAMS AND THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN AMERICA.-Williams and the Providence Baptists.-Arminianism and Laying on of Hands.-Thomas Olney.-William Wickenden.— CHAP. III.-JOHN CLARKE and the BAPTISTS OF NEWPORT.-Set- 59 |