[886] History of the English Baptists, vol. i. pref. p. 35.
[887] Mr. Jones, in his “Church History,” vol. i. chap. iii., note at the end of the chapter, explains this charge as follows: “But this calumny is easily accounted for. The advocates of popery, to support their usurpations and innovations in the kingdom of Christ, were driven to the Old Testament for authority, adducing the kingdom of David for their example. And when their adversaries rebutted the argument, insisting that the parallel did not hold, for that the kingdom of Christ, which is not of this world, is a very different state of things from the kingdom of David, their opponents accused them of giving up the divine authority of the Old Testament.”
[888] Eccl. Hist. Ancient Churches of Piedmont, pp. 231, 236, 237.
[889] Id. pp. 175-177.
[890] Id. p. 209.
[891] Hist. Church, chap. v. sect. 1.
[892] Gen. Hist. Bapt. Denom. vol. ii. p. 413, ed. 1813.
[893] Ecclesiastical Researches, chap. x. pp. 303, 304.
[894] Jones’s Hist. Church, vol. ii. chap. v. sect. 1.
[895] General Hist. Baptist Denom. vol. ii. p. 413.