Revealed anew to a whole new generation of Baptists, this book reveals the true history of the Baptist Church in Virginia. Baptism in order to be right with God. Rejection of Calvinism. In other words, the Baptist Church in Virginia was built by the labors of many men who loved God, and sought to follow His commandments, but many of whom would be labeled as heretics by today's Baptists. The question now stands: Is today's Baptist Church descended from heretics, or were their spiritual ancestors right, and today's Baptists heretics? Don't let modern-day revisionist historians fool you. Read the true story for yourself, written by a man with personal acquaintance with the Baptist pioneers.

Revealed anew to a whole new generation of Baptists, this book reveals the true history of the Baptist Church in Virginia. Baptism in order to be right with God. Rejection of Calvinism. In other words, the Baptist Church in Virginia was built by the labors of many men who loved God, and sought to follow His commandments, but many of whom would be labeled as heretics by today's Baptists. The question now stands: Is today's Baptist Church descended from heretics, or were their spiritual ancestors right, and today's Baptists heretics? Don't let modern-day revisionist historians fool you. Read the true story for yourself, written by a man with personal acquaintance with the Baptist pioneers.

Excerpt from A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia Unless the Compiler is wholly deceived in himfelf, his at tempt to write a history of the virginia bap'rxs'rs, idid not spring, either from the love of money or the love of fame. To say that thefe things never entered his thoughts, would be sar ing what no one would believe. His motive was an ardent wiilt for the profperity of truth; which he really thought could be greatly promoted, bya plain and fimple exhibition of eod's deal. Ings towards his people. The rife and rapid (prowl of the Bap tifis in Virginia were fo remarkable, that there to but few, who do not believe that fome hiltorical relation of rem will be pro ductive of real advantage to true religion. 136 much were our revolutionary reformers perfuaded of thy, that they made ar rangements as early as 1788, to collect materials and publifh a hifiory as may be feen by turning ta'our hillory of the proceed ings of the General Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The premiere history of the Virginia Baptists, as told by one who was there. R.B. Semple describes the struggles--both physical and doctrinal--of the early Baptist preachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia. And what he states may come as a shock to the die-hard Virginia Baptists of today.