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LANDMARKISM "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set." Proverbs 22:28
There are sixty-one items (articles, essays & books)"... to landmarkism is due most of the credit for the fact that Southern Baptists are more strictly orthodox than any other large body of Baptists in the world." (The last statement by Livingston Mays, in "A History of Old Landmarkism" - Th.D. Thesis, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1900.)
"Truly the old landmark once stood, and having fallen, it was deemed proper to reset it." (The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881, p. 868.)
"[T]here are many elements in Baptist history which bear an obvious and direct relationship to the tenets of the Landmark system and which clearly demonstrate that the architects of the movement, 'the Great Triumvirate,' were building on a foundation in Baptist life which was already laid." - LeRoy B. Hogue, "The Antecedents of Landmarkism"
Some of these articles are listed other places; they are listed here for your convenience.
Scroll down for additional documents. ________ ["Our reasons for rejecting Methodism, or Pedobaptist baptism by immersion, as invalid."]A Successionist View of Baptist History
By Jim Duvall
A Study of the Antecedents of Landmarkism
By LeRoy B. Hogue, 1966
A Study of the Antecedents of Landmarkism
In the Philadelphia Baptist Association
By LeRoy B. Hogue, 1966
"An Old Landmark Reset"
By James M. Pendleton
Old Landmarkism
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
William Cathcart, Editor
B. H. Carroll -- was a "Landmarker"
By R. L. Vaughn
The Great Commission - Matthew 28:18-20
By Ben Stratton
Farmington, Kentucky, 2022
"Pre-Landmark" Landmarkism
By R. L. Vaughn, 2007
The Trail of Blood
By R. L Vaughn, 2022
Georgia Baptist Association Circular Letter, 1811
By Jesse Mercer
[Then, as the Baptists had no national government, they could not preserve their records as did others.... The hand which carried the sword to smite this people, carried also the torch to burn up their books, and their authors were reduced to ashes by the flames of their own literature.]
The Problem of Baptist Succession
By Wendell H. Rone, Sr.
Thomas Armitage, History of The Baptists, p. 10.]
Why The Fear of Baptist Perpetuity?
By R. Charles Blair
Landmarkism in Early Boone County (KY) Baptist Churches
By James R. (Jim) Duvall
Why Should Baptist Churches Keep
the “Baptist” Label in Their Names?
By Ben Stratton
Announcing
A Series of Three Lectures On "THE TRAIL OF BLOOD"
by T. P. Simmons, 1939
Landmarkism Before J.R. Graves
By Thomas Williamson
Have Landmark Baptists made any helpful
Contributions to the Christian tradition?
By Ben Stratton
Ben Stratton / Nathan Finn Discuss Landmarkism
Via Correspondence, 2010
A List of Early Baptist Churches from
Compendium of Baptist History
By J. A. Shackelford, 1892
A Testimony Concerning The Trail of Blood
From a Former Catholic Priest
Succession or Perpetuity?
By Dr. Roger W. Maslin
The Definition of the Church
By J. A. Shackelford, 1892
Shackelford's Chart On Baptist Origins
Compendium of Baptist History, 1891
The Perpetuity of the Church
Thoughts on Matthew 16:16-19
By Rev. John Albritton
Biblical Recorder, 1902
“An Old Landmark Reset”
By Asa Drury, FBC, Covington, KY.
The Tennessee Baptist, 1855
Old Landmarkism
A History of Kentucky Baptists
J. H. Spencer, 1886
The Origin of the Appellation: "Old Landmarkism"
By J. R. Graves
Elder Wilson Thompson was a Landmarker
Autobiography
Ten Premises of Landmarkism
J. R. Graves
The Historical Context for the Rise of Old Landmarkism
by Keith Harper, 1986
Old Landmarkism: A Historiographical Appraisal
By Keith Harper
Baptist History and Heritage Journal, 1990
A Response to Errors on Landmarkism
Landmark Southern Baptist Weblog
By Ben Stratton, 2009
Why We Are Not Protestants
By Daniel Chamberlin
Broken Arrow, OK
Baptist Succession
By W. W. Everts
The Baptist Quarterly, 1877
The Church in the Wilderness
By W. W. Everts, Jr.
Can Baptists Consistently go to the Lord's Table
when it is Spread by Pedobaptists?
By T. R. Espy, Little Rock, AR
The Baptist, 1870
The Church and the Ordinances
By Buell H. Kazee, 1965
A twelve-chapter book.
Baptist Waymarks
By Samuel H. Ford, 1903
A fourteen-chapter book + appendices.
The Beginnings of Landmarkism
By Robert A. Baker, 1966
Articles of Faith of the Green River
Association (KY), 1800
Defence of the Philadelphia Confession of Faith
By T. T. Eaton, 1900
The Philadelphia Baptist Association on Authority in Baptism
From the Association Minutes
Valid and Invalid Baptism in Kentucky
Spencer's A History of Kentucky Baptists
Vol. II, 1886
Dr. A. M. Poindexter on Pedobaptist Immersions
The Christian Respository, 1879
"J. R. Graves - Life, Times and Teachings"
By Samuel H. Ford
A twelve chapter bio and three short bios.
Historical Sketch of North Springfield Baptist Church, Vermont
By R. G. Johnson, Pastor, 1878
[The church where J. R. Graves was baptized.]
A History of the Baptists
From the Preface
John T. Christian, 1922
Baptist History Vindicated
By John T. Christian, 1899
With An Introduction by T. T. Eaton
Nature of the Church
By I. K. Cross, 1990
The Marks of a New Testament Church
By Pastor Clarence Walker
From “Introduction” to The Trail of Blood
Baptists Not Protestants
By C. C. Carroll, 1937
Baptist Baptism Before 1641
By Joseph Angus
Early President of Regent's Park (Baptist) College
Oxford, England
Alien Baptism in the SBC in 1915
By W. P. Throgmorton
Lessons on Church Authority from John Gano
By Jim Duvall
A History of Old Landmarkism
By Livingston Mays, 1900
John Broadus on Landmarkism
A Letter in 1876
Researched by Jason Fowler
[Archivist at SBTS]
A Collection of Perpetuity Statements
From Ministry127.com
James Robinson Graves, James Madison Pendleton,
and Amos Cooper Dayton: Foundational to Old Landmarkism
By Klayton Carson, 2022
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A Study of the Antecedents of Landmarkism
By LeRoy B. Hogue
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The Trail of Truth
By William C. Hawkins and Willard A. Ramsey
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Martyrs' Mirror
Thieleman J. vanBraght, 1660
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The Trail of Blood
By J. M. Carroll
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Trail of Blood Chart
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Baptist Succession
A Hand-book of Baptist History
by D. B. (David Burcham) Ray, 1830-1922
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