Baptist Succession.

Baptist succession are the teachings found in the 27 New Testament books handed down from the first century.

2 Timothy 2:2. 'And the things you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.'
That's four generations of teachers: Paul, Timothy, the 'faithful men' and the 'others.'

Martin Marprelate said:

able to teach others

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I'm 'others'.

Martin Marprelate said:

faithful men

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Those faithful men were taught "all things I have Commanded you", which included the carrying out of the Great Commission, which was Entrusted to them as a local church entity Organization-Organism.

Then through their hands-on, person-to-person Preaching the Gospel, they made disciples and then baptized them by the Authority passed to them from God, as taught in the New Testament, and then taught them the "all things I have Commanded you", as Jesus told her to.

The organic cycle of Jesus' churches then continued from there, through the "woman who fled into the wilderness", to the "Welsh Baptist, as one example of hundreds of lines of succession, up to the New England Baptists and others all down the East Coast of America.

Our church came out of Virginia, to Central Kentucky, by horse and on foot by the hundreds (six hundred at one time).

They taught of the Indians in the time of Daniel Boone and founded our church in 1782, I believe.

That is all the Fulfilled Promises to His churches, which Jesus told them in Truth.

Matthew 16:18, "I Will Build My church (His churches as the Disciples were made one) "and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it".