Author: Edward P. Brand

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-19

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780259555360

Excerpt from Illinois Baptists: A History This was before the rrse of modern denomrnatrons The Lutherans, our oldest protestant denomrnatron, date from the Augsburg Confessron of 1530, but the Schlertherm Confessron was read m the churches of belrevers three years before the Augsburg Confessron was srgned Bap trsts are not therefore strrctly protestants The name Protestant comes from the Protest of Aprrl 15, 1529, of the German prrnces and free crtres at the Councrl of Sprres, agarnst therr emperor's edrct command rng them under penalty to restore the old worshrp But Baptrsts were not represented at Sprres, nor If they had been would they have been allowed to 10m rn the wrrtten Protest, for they rejected the rnfant bap trsm to whrch the Protesters clung and warved the governmental rnter ference to whrch the Protesters appealed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.