Origin of Baptists
John Potter, 1877

      In all ages since the first, the Baptists have believed their denomination more ancient than themselves. The American Baptists deny that they owe their origin to Roger Williams. The English Baptists will not grant that John Smyth or Thomas Helwysse was their founder . . . From the fact that a traditional belief in regard to the antiquity of the Baptists has existed among them in every quarter of the world, it is to be inferred that the idea is not without foundation.^*
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^* John Potter, Handbook of All Religions, Philadelphia, Potter, 1877, pp. 29-30.

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