Apostolic Church-Continued. congregational rights, 121. pastors elected by each Church, 123. method of electing pastors, 124. struggle for freedom of conscience, 128. officers and ordinances, 129. community of goods, 130. the Church at Jerusalem, 130, 131. deaconesses, 133, 134. baptism the first ordinance, 138. the place filled by baptism, 140. subjects fit for baptisin in the, 142. the Lord's Supper, 146, 147. Baptist copy of the, 148. Apostolic succession: Christ never promised organic visibility to his Church in perpetuity, 4. definition of the belief in, 4. unbroken succession not a true test of, 8. visible descent not a proper test, 8. a contradiction of all reliable history, 9. Stevens, Abel, on, 9. New Testament succession, 11. Appendix, London, the, 716. Appian Way, the, 95. Appii Forum, 95. Aquidneck purchased of the Indians, 669. Arabians: ignorance of, 232. proud of their descent from Ishmael, 234. Ararat, Mount, Mission Church at, 829. Aretas, king of Arabia Petræa: declares war on Herod Antipas, 23. his army passes through the scene of John's preach- Arianism condemned by Council of Nicæa, 197. Arians: opposed by Constantine, 204. practiced trine baptism, 247. Aristarchus of Thessalonica visits Paul at Rome, 97. cited as to meaning of Greek word baptizo, 34. Arius banished by Constantine, 204. Ark of the Covenant, 24. Arles, Council of, condemns the Donatists, 202. Arminian Version, the, 223. Arnold, Matthew, on the Christ of the Gospels, 6. Arnoldists, 301. Arnold of Brescia: birth and education, 291. preacher and patriot, 291. doctrines, 292. banished by Lateran Council, 292. suffers death by hanging, 292. monument to, 293. Art, early Christian, 256. allegorical pictures, 261. no affusion depicted, 262. Arracan, mission to, 820. Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, denounces the Lol- lards, 323. Ashton, James, 709. Ashton, Joseph, 707. Asia: Asia-Continuel. missions to, 814. Askew, Anne: sketch of, 448. tortured, 448. burnt at Smithfield, 448. Aspersi, the, 459. Aspersion, or Sprinkling: permitted by Council of Ravenna, 427. becomes the rule in England, 429. declared legal by the Westminster Directory, 429. Baptists not the only people who resisted, 434. Philadelphia, 715, 716. South Australian, 938. Athenagoras advocates liberty of conscience for Christians, 170, 171. Atlanta, Ga., Seminaries at, 850. the Baptist head-quarters of Southern Germany, 388. Langenmantel, pastor of the Baptists at, 391. Augustine, Saint: on the baptism of Christ, 27. on Greek translations of the Scriptures, 156. belief that unbaptized infants dying were eternally wrote a work against the Donatists, 201. leads the debate against the Donatists at Carthage, 214. favors infant baptism, 216. presides at Council of Milevium, 217. not immersed until manhood, 218. on trine immersion, 220. Augustus, Emperor, superstition and skepticism of, 101. immersed ten thousand converts in the Swale, 79. baptizes Ethelbert, 229. made Archbishop of Canterbury, 229. adapts the Christian ceremonial to suit the rude dispute with the islanders of Britain, 230. Australia, Baptists of, 937. [See SOUTH AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND, TASMANIA, Austria, mission work in, 829. Authors, Baptist. [See the different surnames.] Babes saved by Jesus, 69. [See CHILDREN.] the continent chosen by Christ wherein to reveal Babes, Baptism of: himself, 64. its diversity and vast extent, 64. B. unknown in the second century, 162. Bishop Barlow, Menzell, Lange, et al., on, 162, 163. Bangor, Wales: early Christian colony at, 228. slaughter of the monks of, 231. Baptismal Angel, the, 188. Baptism in England-gradual change from immersion to sprinkling, 432-436. [See BAPTISTS, ENGLISH.] Baptism, Jewish : described by Dr. Lightfoot, 31. Lindsay quoted on, 32. Baptism of Jesus: words of Godet on, 25. time of, 29. Baptism, Ordinance of-Continued. 935 Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany anciently the ordi- "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles" on baptism in anointing the baptized with oil, 266, 268, 269. [See IMMERSION, TRINE IMMERSION.] Baptist Churches: diversities of doctrine among the early sects, 10. their historians forced to write against great odds, 10. what constitutes Baptist history, 12. foundation doctrines stated, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154. Baptist Church, a, is a congregation, not a denomination Baptist Churches: have we a visible succession of? 1. their affinity to the Apostolic Churches, 149. first sentence in, 13. opening chapter of, 14. Baptist, John the. See JOHN the Baptist.] Baptisteries: in the Middle Ages, 243. ancient baptisteries, 248. in the beginning were simply oathing-places, 249. earliest existing baptistery, 250. introduced into churches, 250. at Pisa, Rome, and Florence, 250, 251. 252. architectural features, 252. baptistery of St. Sophia. Constantinople, 253. at Aix, Verona, Parma, Pistoia, and Milan, 253, 254. in the Catacomb of St. Ponziano, 265. Baptists, The: great debtors to individual reformers, 6. should separate their history from all doubtful ma- misunderstood and maligned, 11. a peculiar people, 11. a people of one book, 11. first Baptist martyr, 45. John a typical Baptist, 55. originally named Anabaptists, Mennonites, and Wal- Baptists, The-Continued. desperate contests for freedom, 790. Colonial period, 619. Pilgrims and Puritans, 619. banishment of Roger Williams, 627. Providence and New York Churches, 658. Mills and the Swansea Church, 674. Boston Baptists, the, 686. South Carolina, 704. Maine, 704. Pennsylvania, 704. New Jersey, 704. Virginia Baptists, the, 724. Baptists of Connecticut and New York, 730. Revolutionary War, Baptists and the, 776. American Baptists and constitutional liberty, 796. foreign missions, 814. home missions, 836. struggles for constitutional liberty, 796. Virginia Convention, the, 798. preachers, 852. educators, 852. authors, 852. Baptists, Boston: persecutions of, 686. sympathy for them punished, 689. whipping declared unlawful, 691. right of petition denied, 702. their meeting-house nailed up, 703. Baptists, British: rise of Associations, 558. London Assembly, the, 559. eminent Baptists, 560. quaint customs among, 567, 568. marriage service, the, 567. love-feasts before the Lord's Supper, 568. ministerial clubs, 568. Baptist Union, the, 588. ministerial education, 588. notable educators, 588, 589. [See PARTICULAR BAPTISTS, SEVENTH-DAY BAP- TISTS, ETC.] Baptists, English: practice of, 437. persecutions, 439. noteworthy immersions among, 489. practiced immersion prior to 1641, 440, 441. spread of their doctrines, 446. English martyrdoms, 446. first English general Baptist Church, 454. Confusion of 1643, the, 461. "Valid Baptism" controversy, 463. 464. distinguished themselves from Pedobaptists, 469. Bunyan, John, 474. Bunyan's relations to, 511. how they treated Bunyan, 532. charge Bunyan with error, 533. in the Commonwealth and the Restoration, 540. controversy on singing, 549, Seventh-Day Baptists, 552. James II. and indulgence, 553. "Orthodox Creed," the, 554, 556, 558. Toleration Act, the, 554. Calvinistic Confession, the, 554. liberty of conscience, 555. origin and historical sketch of, 570. early Churches, 571. Irish Mission Society, the, 587. Baptists, Scottish: | Baptists, Scottish-Continued. children of Scottish monarchs dipped, 572. founding of Churches after the Reformation era, 572. Baptists, Virginia, 725 et seq. [See VIRGINIA, BAPTISTS OF.] notable founders among, 599, 600, 601. debate and persecution, 603. relief gained by the Toleration Act, 604. Calvinistic controversy, the, 606. love for Scripture truth, 210. on soul regeneration a prerequisite to baptism, 211. Basil of Cappadocia not baptized till manhood, 219. a center of Baptist influence, 346. Baptists scourged through the streets, 347. Bath, the: use of enjoined among the Jews, 78. Baths, Roman, used for baptismal purposes, 248. relations to Walter Cradock, 432. Baylor Female College, 878. on the rite of baptism, 145. on the reasons for the existence of divers churches, 154. translates the Scriptures into Anglo-Saxon, 241. words used by Bede for baptism,' 241. account of early English baptisms, 426. Bedford: Bunyan Meeting, the, 526. two old baptisteries at, 527. whence it sprang, 513, 514. the question of baptism in, 522, 523. divisions in the church, 526. Bedford Church and Bishoping,' 504. sustain infant baptism, 358. Benedict, David, 880. Benedict Institute, Columbia, S. C., 849. Bengel, quoted on the word 'gospel,' 57. Bennet, Bartlett, 734. Bennett, Alfred, 856. Bergamo, Conference of, 309. Berne, Switzerland, all Baptists banished from, 348. Bethabara, 33. Bethesda, Pool of, 75. sacrificial animals washed in, 77. pride, covetousness, and iniquity of in the middle Bishops in the Apostolic Church. [See PASTORS.] Black Forest, the Peasants' War begins in the, 363. Blake of Tamworth, on dipping of infants, 429. Blaurer, Thomas, on Ludwig Hetzer, 343. Blaurock, George Jacob: early life, 336. rejected infant baptism, 336. scourged and sentenced to be drowned, 336. Block Island, Baptists of, 751. Bloody Tenet, the. [See WILLIAMS, ROGER.] Bockhold, excesses perpetrated by at Münster, 871. | Boston Baptists. [See BAPTISTS, BOSTON.] first Baptist church in, 699. Baptist churches founded in, 718, 719. Botsford, Edmund, 770, 771. Boucher, Joan, martyrdom of, 449, 450. Bowne, John, 709. Boyce, James P., 876. Bradford, on apostolic succession, 4. Braintree, Mass., Wheelwright preaches at, 636. Brantford, Canada, 928. Brantly, W. T., 853. Brazil, mission to, 838. Brenner, on ancient nude baptism, 221. Bright, Edward, 885. Britain, supposed visit of Paul to, 97. Baptist press of, 922. educational institutions, 924. the struggle for freedom of conscience, 929. University question, the, 930. 'Family Compact,' the, 930. foreign missions, 931. educational work, 932. [See the various provinces.] British Isles: Christianity introduced to, 226. precise date of their evangelization, 227. ancient Christian remains in Cornwall, 227. idolatry reestablished, 227. early Christians in Wales, 228. Austin despatched thither, 228. 937 Rome the true source of the Christianity of Britain, 228. the Keldees of Ireland, 228. Ethelbert baptized by Austin, 229. See of Canterbury founded, 229. opposition to the jurisdiction of Rome appears, 229,230. Brittane, James, 678. Broadus, John A., 868, 869. Brown, Edwin T., 669. persecution by the Puritans, 626. Brown, Nathan, 821, 825, 886. Brown, Hugh Stowell, 591, 592, 593. Brown John, 482, 483. [See BUNYAN, JOHN.] Brown, Joseph E., 773. Brown, Robert, 452. Brownists, the, 452. [See INDEPENDENTS.] obtained their notions of Church independence from the Dutch Baptists, 620. Brown University, 722. Brunfels, Otto, 386. Bucer, Martin, 385. Buckle, on Baptist martyrs in Holland and Friesland, 414. successor of Zwingli, 384. attacks the Anabaptists, 384, 385. Bullock, Richard, 679. Bunsen, Baron: on pedobaptism, 185. quoted on infant baptism in the Apostolic Church, 144. on infant baptism, 187. Bunyan, Elizabeth, 506. Bunyan, Hannah, 496, 497, 493. Bunyan, John: birth and boyhood, 474, 575. not a gipsy, 474. origin of the family of Bunyan, 474. marriage, 475. conversion, 475. immersed in the Ouse, 475. Bunyan, Joseph, 493, 494. Bunyan Meeting, the, 526. Burger, Benjamin, 734. Burial in water, was John's baptism a? 33. on the baptism administered by John and Christ, 35. Calvinistic Baptist Churches:" in London, 460. Confession of Faith of the English, 460. Calvinistic Controversy imported into Virginia, 780. Campbell, George, on elders and bishops in the Apostolic on the natural baptistery near Harbottle, 254. Canada, Baptists of, 919. [See the various provinces.] Canterbury, England. [See AUSTIN.] Capito, 385. Cappadocia, 72. Caracalla: baths of, 78, 79. public baths of, 249. Carey, Lott, 826. Carey, William: birth and descent, 579. conversion, 579. commences to preach, 580. his missionary enthusiasm, 581. starts for India, 581. struggles and defeats, 581. translates the New Testament, 581. self-support, 582. death, 583. Carlstadt denounced by Luther. 358. Carlyle, Thomas, on the Life of Jesus Christ, 63. Carson, Alexander, 571. on the eldership, 187. Burleigh, Va., first Baptist church in Virginia organized Carthage, Councils of: at, 727. Burma: missions to, 815. mission of Nova Scotia Baptists to, 923. Burpee, R. E., 923. Burrage, Henry S., 883. Burrows, Amos, 745. Burrows, Peleg, 745. Burrows, Roswell, 745. Burrows, Silas, 745. Burrus Afranius, 96. Burton, John, 515. Busher, Leonard, case of in England, 440. Butler, Ezra, 769, 883. Butler, William, quoted on ablutions in the East, 78. Butterworth, John, 679. one convened A. D. 252, 186, 187. declares that the water in baptism is sanctified, 189. Carthaginians, infant sacrifices among, 69. Catacombs: early baptistery in the Catacomb of Callixtus, 250. baptistery of St. Ponziano, 264. no evidence of affusion in the catacomb pictures, 273. Cathari of the Novatians, 9. source of much confusion in Church history, 277. an early Baptist body among, 280. monkish preaching against, 282. Cathcart: on the Eunomians, 220. on a natural baptistery in Northumberland, 254. Cathcart, Robert, 933. Cathcart, William, 869, 870 871. Cavaliers, the Virginia: not less intolerant than the Puritans of Massachusetts, 725. cruelties inflicted by, 725, 726. Cave, Dr.: on immersion, 141. on Novatian's baptism, 178. |