Alan Dale Gross
Active Member
"Our neighbors tell us to our faces that as Landmarkers we are a “cult” or a “sect”
and some probably cry out behind our backs that we are worse than that.
"They say we are some new aberration having an origin only in the 1800’s with J.R. Graves, etc.
"From time to time, some of our own depart to another camp, saying that ours cannot be true Baptist Churches
because our Churches have been organized by “mother Churches,” and that it is wrong to require letters of dismission
and permission from previously existing Churches of which we were members in order to constitute a new Church.
Some may read the title of this present article and immediately say that no such thing as Landmarkism existed in the colonial days of North America.
But I submit that this present article will demonstrate beyond a doubt to the candid reader
that The Earliest Baptist Churches in America were Independent Sovereign Grace Colonial Landmark Missionary Baptist Churches.
"The first Baptist Churches in Colonial America were indeed practicing Landmarkers,
although of course they had no knowledge of that term as it had not been coined at that early date.
"This present article will also indicate to the thoughtful reader that the Welsh Churches –
from whence these Colonial Baptist Churches immediately succeeded –
had practiced Landmarkism in their Churches in that island nation prior to the coming of the Welsh Baptists to North America.
"And those who know Welsh Baptist history will be aware of the fact that these Welsh Baptist Churches
must have learned these practices from the apostle to Wales, for they have a valid claim to having been planted by no less personage than Paul himself
when he made his visit to Britain in connection with Claudia and Pudens (mentioned in 2 Tim. 4:21).
"Thus Landmarkism may with historical evidence logically be seen to be the Scriptural practice of early Welsh Churches planted by Paul
and we dare suggest that these Churches must have imbibed Landmark principles from that apostle who first taught them the Word of God."
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Con't at: COLONIAL LANDMARKISM.