Stargazer65
Puritan Board Freshman
I found this quote recently attributed to Spurgeon which also identified him with Baptist Successionism (BS):
"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 under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents."
I was kind of surprised because I consider him to be reformed, whereas I thought BS was a sort of aberrant view of church history subscribed to mostly by rabidly Anti-Calvinistic Anti-Paedobaptist Baptists. C. Spurgeon is often called "Heir of the Puritans" and often speaks highly of them even though most are Paedobaptist.
"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 under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents."
I was kind of surprised because I consider him to be reformed, whereas I thought BS was a sort of aberrant view of church history subscribed to mostly by rabidly Anti-Calvinistic Anti-Paedobaptist Baptists. C. Spurgeon is often called "Heir of the Puritans" and often speaks highly of them even though most are Paedobaptist.