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Wow, this is really an in depth “study” of History!! We go from Church that “appear” to be Baptistic within the 1st century and then fast forward to 1400 where there was a Baptist in England. What’s accurate in this site? There is not a verifiable fact in there!!!
**** ** Benedict in his history of the Baptists states that the Gospel was preached in Britain within sixty years of the Lord’s return to heaven. These churches appear to have been baptistic and remained sound until Austin, the Catholic monk brought Catholicism to the Isles in 597 AD. He states that there were Baptists in England 1400 AD. He mentions a man named William Sawtre, who was identified as a Lollard and Baptist, was the first person burned at the stake after Henry IV’s 1400 AD decree to burn heretics. Benedict states that the English Roman Catholics in 1535, put to death twenty two Baptists for heresies. In 1539 thirty one more who had fled to Holland were apprehended and martyred there. He states that five hundred others who were identified as AnaBaptists were also killed in England during this period. After Henry VII separated England from the Roman Catholic Church the Baptist faired no better. Many Baptists were executed by the newly formed Church of England during what is called the "Protestant inquistion. " (David Benedict, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in American, and Other Parts of the World**, London: Lincoln and Edmands, Nr. 53, Cornhill, 1813, Fundamental Baptist CD ROM Library, 1701 Harns Rd. , Oak Harbor, Washington 98277)
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