Les Potter
New Member
I am looking for information of where John Clarke was baptist and/or ordained. Most writers say he arrived to America as a Protestant separatist and later began baptizing people. But this conflicts with organic succession. Some cite that he fellowshipped with Baptists, which indicates he must have been one. Anyway, I would like to find if there is anything out with this information. There is one author that claimed that Clarke came from a Baptist church in London whose roots went to the apostles. But that author is DB Ray. He gave no citation whatsoever and elsewhere made up a lot of facts. Not to mention wresting Scripture to fit his amillennial, preterist-historicist religious premise. Shackleford quotes Ray on this but still, no citation. I would like to find that Ray was somehow right, but from a more authoritative source. Thanks.