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This is a reprint of a work published in 1838 regarding Baptist History. The reason for the following work by Dr. Orchard was to counter comments by respectable men that Baptists did not originate until Dr. William Carey or the Reformation. After considerable research, he became fully satisfied; and established the proof of what Robinson conjectured, that ""the English Baptists, contending for the sufficiency of Scripture, and for Christian liberty to judge of its meaning, can be traced back in authentic documents, to the firs t Nonconformists and to the Apostles."" This is a reprint of a work published in 1838 regarding Baptist History. Many like to hold a book in their hands to read, so in that tradition, The Old Paths Publications has reprinted this valuable book concerning the Baptists. The reason for the following work by Dr. Orchard was to counter comments by respectable men that Baptists did not originate until Dr. William Carey or the Reformation. After considerable research, he became fully satisfied, and established the proof of what Robinson conjectured, that ""the English Baptists, contending for the sufficiency of Scripture, and for Christian liberty to judge of its meaning, can be traced back in authentic documents, to the first Nonconformists and to the Apostles."" In the course of Dr. Orchard's reading, materials so accumulated on his hands as to enable him to furnish facts sufficient to make a compendious history of the Baptists in variious provinces; from their rise, to their being scattered or extinguished; and which facts are submitted in the following pages. Nor does he fear contradiction, since he has taken the most accreditied historians, and have preferred, in most instances, the testimonies of men hostile to his communion. Dr. Orchard said, ""The enduing facts, with many more, were selected to satisy my own inquiries, but when I had placed them in connective form, I thought they might be useful to others similarly circumstanced, and might render some aid to inquiring youths in our churches

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This is a concise but thorough review of churches that held to Baptist Distinctives through the centuries since Christ. G. H. Orchard was a careful historian. His work is replete with valuable insight. Christians will be amazed at the persecution of those who adhered to Biblical principles.

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1796-1861 G.H. Orchard Baptist held to successionism (or Baptist perpetuity) is one of several theories on the origin and ... Other Baptist writers who held the perpetuity view are John T. Christian, Thomas Crosby, G. H. Orchard, J. M. Cramp, William Cathcart, Adam Taylor and D. B. Ray. This view was once commonly held among Baptists.[4] Since the end of the 19th century, however, the theory has increasingly come under attack and today has been largely discredited.[5][page needed] Nonetheless, the view continued to be the prevailing view among Baptists of the Southern United States into the latter 20th century.[6] It is now identified primarily with Landmarkism, which is upheld by the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement, though not exclusively so. Since the end of the 19th century the trend in academic Baptist historiography has been away from the successionist viewpoint to the view that modern day Baptists are an outgrowth of 17th-century English Separatism.[9] This shift precipitated a controversy among Southern Baptists which occasioned the forced resignation of William H. Whitsitt, a professor at Southern Baptist Seminary, in 1898 from the seminary for advocating the new view, though his views continued to be taught in the seminary after his departure. Most Baptists continue to believe in secessionism.

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