The Anabaptists—“being puritan before puritanism was cool” by Peter Lumpkins

   "The Anabaptists.—It should be here stated that the first martyrs for religious liberty during the reign of Elizabeth are found, not among the Brownists, but among the hated, maligned, and much-suffering Anabaptist. The history of that remarkable sect has yet to be written, and when justice has been done to them a memorable and heroic chapter will have been added to the history of the world. The Anabaptists were Puritans before Puritanism had sprung into recognized existence, and held substantially all that the Puritans afterwards contended for…"¹

¹Puritanism in the Old World and in the New, from its inception in the reign of Elizabeth to the establishment of the Puritan Theocracy in New England: a Historical Handbook by the Rev. J. Gregory; Introduction by the Rev. Amory H. Bradford, D.D. author of "The Pilgrim in Old England" Fleming H. Revell, 1896, p. 176, embolden added

Comments

[Lydia]

I am reading the first part review on google. Would love to read the whole thing

[dr. james willingham]

Dear Peter: Them Anabaptists in England before the Reformation were called Lollards, and they really were very likely our predecessors as well as ancestors. One of them got burned over the issue of believing as he did that out of the universities came the papacy and free will. I once took a few hundred 5x8 notecards on a Ph.D. dissertation in the Univ. of Mo. Library. Later, I took notes on The Lollards of the Chilton Hills which noted while they could not establish the connections, the family names of the Lollards were the same as those of the Baptists some 150-200 years later.

[Jeremy Crowder]

This question shows my ignorance but I'd like to know what is the difference between AnaBaptists of that day and modern people who claim to be AnaBaptist. I'm wondering if they are basicaly the same group in belief or have evolved.
I'm talking about not Baptists which have many different types around disinctives but those that use the term AnaBaptist.

[Randall Cofield]

Framers of TS remove signatory list
Posted on July 14, 2012 by the editors of SBC Today

http://sbctoday.com/2012/07/14/framers-of-ts-remove-signatory-list/#more-8906

Fascinating.....

[Lydia]

"This question shows my ignorance but I'd like to know what is the difference between AnaBaptists of that day and modern people who claim to be AnaBaptist. I'm wondering if they are basicaly the same group in belief or have evolved.
I'm talking about not Baptists which have many different types around disinctives but those that use the term AnaBaptist."

Jeremy, there is some fascinating reading online and if I can find it I will post it here. I am a bit tied up but would love to share it with you.

There are a few free ebooks written by descendents of AnaBaptists who came here (Some Mennonites, Hutterites, etc) who have written what it was like growing up in their "seperated" communities.

It is so ironic how things work. They seperate from the false state church in Europe and are much more free as a group while persecuted but come here and continue the seperation in a free society and are very legalistic.