Description
Your Baptist Heritage (1620-1804), originally published in 1844 under the title Church History of New England from 1620-1804, is a book that Baptists will treasure as a vital part of their history. This period of Baptist history, as in nearly all of their history, reflects the continuing persecution they have had to endure because of their strict adherence to the doctrines of the Word of God, particularly, the doctrines concerning the church and the ordinances. Though never persecuting others, they themselves have been the object of persecution since their first church was started by the Lord Himself in Jerusalem during the first century, and one cannot write of the history of Baptists without mentioning the many cruelties they have had to endure.
The same persecutions which they suffered for centuries in Europe followed them to America, and it was only through the efforts of men like Isaac Backus that all men today in the United States are free to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience, whether they be Baptists, Catholics, Jews or none at all.
This book describes these early efforts and the success of Baptists in securing this religious freedom and making it a part of the United States Constitution. Though other denominations may not be aware of this fact, they owe a debt of gratitude to the Baptists, for Baptists, practically alone, fought for and secured this freedom for all.
Isaac Backus was one of the great Baptist leaders during the early days of the Revolutionary War. This book is one of the few books written from a personal, eye-witness account of events leading up to American independence from England and the securing of religious liberty for all people. This book, originally published in 1844, is probably the only detailed history covering these early years of Baptist Church History in America.
The Challenge Press, copyright 2001, spiral-bound, 249 pages.