The Anabaptists and Their Stepchildren
By Rev. Prof. Dr. Francis Nigel Lee
Contents
- FOREWORD (by Reverend Richard Bacon)
- Introduction (by Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee)
- Who were the Anabaptists and who are their stepchildren?
- Anabaptist views in general altogether foreign to Holy Scripture
- Anabaptist views contrary also to the history of the Early Church
- After 250 A.D.: submersionism and other baptismal heresies
- The non-baptizing Paulicians and the infant-damning Petrobrusians
- The Waldensians maintained the infant baptism of tiny Christians
- The impact on baptism of Thomistic Roman Catholicism
- Wycliffe and Huss and their followers on infant baptism
- The influence of Wycliffe through Huss upon Luther
- The rebaptismal error of the Bohemian 'Minor United Brethren'
- The United Bohemian Brethren recanted the error of rebaptism
- The Bohemian Confession(s) on rebaptism from 1504 onward
- God maintained His baptism despite the Church's mediaeval meanderings
- Luther on infants' faith and reason before their infant baptism
- Luther on covenant infants' faith at or even before their baptism
- The roots and the rise of the Anabaptist heretics
- The Anabaptist attack against the Protestant Reformation
- Anabaptism's Muenzer or Muentzer: the monster of Muhlhausen
- Huebmaier the Anabaptist and the road to revolution
- The Anabaptists and the 1525 Peasant War in Germany
- Muenzerite Anabaptists still continued to help spread the sedition
- Luther on the antinomian and antipaidobaptistic Muenzerites
- Luther's antirebaptismal work Concerning Rebaptism
- The condemnation of Anabaptism in the Lutheran Symbols
- Switzerland disturbed by the Anabaptist heresies
- Zwingli's first condemnation of the Anabaptists' views on baptism
- The formal birth and constitution of Switzerland's Anabaptists
- The Anabaptists, rebaptizing defiantly, expelled from Switzerland
- Zwingli's various writings against the errors of the Anabaptists
- Zwingli's antirebaptismal Questions Concerning Rebaptism
- Zwingli's antirebaptismal Declaration of Christian Faith
- Early Anabaptists outside of Switzerland and Germany
- Pseudo-Clement, Pseudo-Isidore, and Anabaptist communism
- Anabaptist polygamy and community of wives: its roots
- The Dutch Anabaptist Leaders Obbe and Dirck Philips
- The awful actions of Anabaptism in its 'millenium' at Muenster
- Polygamy since Muenster: the awful aftermath of Anabaptism
- Obbe Philips recants in his Recollections of the Years 1533-1536
- Obbe Philips on the Hofmannite Anabaptist Jan Matthys
- Obbe on the interaction between the Dutch and the Muenster Anabaptists
- The not-so-peaceful Anabaptist Menno Simons
- The Antitrinitarian Anabaptist Servetus (or Miguel Serveto)
- The influence of Servetus among Anabaptists internationally
- Candid assessment of the Anabaptists' faith and practice
- Nature of the baptistic views of the Anabaptists
- Butzer, Oecolampadius and the 1532 First Basle Confession on baptism
- The 1536 Second Basle or First Helvetic Confession on baptism
- The development of the paidobaptist Calvin's anti-Anabaptist views
- The mature Calvin's commitment to infant faith before baptism
- Unitarian Anabaptist Servetus versus Trinitarian Reformer Calvin
- Calvin's wife and babies and his many contacts with Anabaptists
- Calvin's opposition to the Anabaptists' soul-sleep theory
- Anabaptist soul-sleep refuted in Calvin's Psychopannychia
- Calvin's anti-revolutionary 1544 Treatise Against the Anabaptists
- The Anabaptist doctrine of 'flesh' refuted by Calvin
- Calvin refutes the Anabaptist denial of postmortal consciousness
- Pseudo-glossolaly of the Anabaptists refuted by Calvin
- Calvin refutes the denial of the soul's immortality
- Anabaptism's sexual immorality refuted by Calvin
- Calvin refutes Anabaptism's community of goods
- Anabaptism's superspiritualistic ecstasy refuted by Calvin
- Baptistic misallegations that Calvin favoured submersionism
- Calvin refuted the Anabaptists from Matthew 19:14
- The Great Commission implies faith within covenant infants
- Calvin's 1542 Form[ula] of Administering Baptism
- "Be baptized [Acts 2:38f]: for the promise is to you and to your children!"
- Rev. Prof. Dr. John Calvin's baptismal comments on Acts 2:38f
- Were also the infants of believing Samaritan adults baptized?
- Cornelius and his family trusted God long before their baptism
- The actions of Paul in Antioch and Philippi condemn the Anabaptists
- Calvin insists Acts 19:1-6 does not teach rebaptism
- Calvin refutes the Anabaptist views against paidobaptism
- Calvin on why the babies of believers should be baptized
- Calvin said Anabaptists and Romanists were not too dissimilar on baptism
- Calvin's strongly anti-Anabaptist paidobaptism
- Calvin refutes Gnesio-Lutheran slander that he was an "Anabaptist"
- Calvin's final words of opposition to the Anabaptists
- The Early British Anabaptists from 1534 onward
- The anti-Anabaptist Edwardine Articles of 1553
- The anti-Anabaptist Thirty-nine Articles of 1563f
- Continuation of the anti-Anabaptist Thirty-nine Articles
- John Knox's writings against the Anabaptists
- The English Anabaptists called the 'Family of Love'
- The Belgica condemns the various views of the Anabaptists
- Guido De Bres's 1570 book against the Anabaptists
- Bullinger's anti-Anabaptist Second Swiss Confession
- Monolithic opposition of all the Reformers to Anabaptism
- Mutual influence of Continental and British anti-Anabaptists
- The anti-Anabaptist and anti-Romish 1615 Irish Articles
- The anti-Anabaptist 'T-U-L-I-P' Decrees of the Synod of Dordt
- The influence of the 1618f Synod of Dordt upon Britain
- Anti-Anabaptist background of Britain's Westminster Assembly
- Baptist Professors on the origin and development of the (Ana)Baptists
- Many modern Baptists say their pioneers derive from the Anabaptists
- The arrival and expansion of (Ana)Baptists in North America
- British (Ana)Baptist Confessions of the seventeenth century
- The reply to the (Ana)Baptists of the Calvinistic Westminster Assembly
- How to "crucify the Son of God afresh": the sin of rebaptism
- The great sin of leaving one's own babies unbaptized
- Godly methods for overcoming Anabaptist influences
- The inevitable conversion of the Anabaptists' stepchildren
- (Ana)Baptists of all countries -- repent!
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