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88 An Answer to . . . Russen, p. 244. back 89 An Answer to . . . Russen for some reprints of direct quotations of portions of his book, see these sources: David Benedict, A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and other parts of the World (New York: Colby, 1848), pp.160-168; The Sabbath Recorder, XVIII, no. 11 (March 13, 1862);XVIII, 14 (April 3, 1862) p. 73f.; Goodby, Bye-paths, p. 298. back 90 Joseph Stennett, An Answer to . . . Russen p. iv; cf. p. iii. back 91 Ibid., p. 5. back 92 Ibid., back 93 Ibid., pp. 11f. back 94 Ibid., pp. 136-139. back 95 Ibid., p. 250. back 96 Joseph Stennett, An Answer to . . . Russen p. 251. back 97 The Italian sonnet rhyme is a b b a c c d e d e with possible variation in the last six lines. The English is a h a b c d c d e f e f g g. Coilet uses a a b b c c d d e e f f g g. back 98 Joseph Stennett, Works, IV, i-iv. back 99 An Answer to . . . Russen p. iv. back 100 Ibid., pp. 16f. back 101 Ibid., pp. 35f back 102 Ibid., pp. 61 ff. back 103 Ibid., p. 68. back 104 Ibid., pp. 115, 120. back 105 Ibid., p. 207. back 106 Ibid., pp. 191, 194f.; cf. p. 216: referring to Russen, "the account he gives here of their [the Anabaptists'] over strict Discipline, seems not to agree with the Lax-Morals he imputes to them, in so many other places of his Treatise." back 107 Ibid., pp. 52f. Although Joseph Stennett protested against this mistake in some of the components of a generalization, Seventh Day Baptists have not always avoided this mistake. In SDBs in EA, of Sabbath-keeping dissenters, it is said: "In their earlier history they were known as Nazareens, Carinthians and Hypsisterii, and later as Vaudois, Catbari, Toulousians, Albigenses, Petrobrusians, Passagili and Waldenses. We shall speak of them in general, under this latter name." (I, 15; see the same words in A. H. Lewis, Seventh-Day Baptist Handbook (Plainfield, N.J. American Sabbath Tract Society, 1896), p. 11.) The Waldenses originated from Peter Waldo of Lyon (twelfth century) or from "vailis" (valley), the valleys of Piedmont in northern Italy in about the twelfth century. It is inaccurate to list all, the groups above as "Waldenses." For instance, the Carinthians are a sect that gathered about 100 A.D. around a Gnostic teacher, Cerinthus (Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, ed. by John M'Clintock and James String (New York: Harper, 1894), X, 855). Another example of a Russen-type error which later appeared in Seventh Day Baptist scholarship is that of generalization from a few particular points to a broad statement which is in the main false. The Passagili, a short lived sect about 1200, observed the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath. Because they existed about the same time as the Waldenses. However, some Seventh Day Baptist writers on the basis of the above quotation have stated that the Waldenses observed the seventh day as the Sabbath. Such is simply not true. (For further discussion of this point, one may contact the author of this thesis.) back 108 Joseph Stennett, An Answer to ... Russen p. 225. back 109 Ibid., p. 247. back 110 Ibid., p. 142. back 111 Ibid., p. 2. back 112 Ibid., p. 40. back 113 Ibid., pp. 154f. back 114 Joseph Stennett, Works, I B2Of. back 115 See a reprint of this book about 1875 from London in the two volume edition noted before or a one volume edition from Nashville, Tenn. in 1860 (Southwestern Bapt. Pub. House). back 116 Joseph Stennett, Works, I, B23; Wall, op. cit., (1860), p. lxv. back 117 The only Baptist reply was a belated one by Dr. John Gale which appeared in 1711 (Ivinmy, op. cit., IV, 214). back 118 p. III. back 119 Wall, op. cit., (edition ca. 1875), II, 12, 17, 139, 187, 199, 268, 289, 299. back 120 Ibid., II, 268. back 121 Ibid., II, 299. back 122 Baptists, Presbyterians and Independents (the Congregationalists of today). back 123 The Old Church-Book of the Seventh Day General Baptist at Mill Yard, in Goodman's Fields, minutes for June 7, 1702, Dec. 6, 1713, etc. There are also numerous examples of this practice in the Pinners' Hall Record Book. (However, for transfer of members to "Sabbath-keeping" churches at a distance, a letter or correspondence back and forth is used: Pinners' Hall Record Book, pp. 71, 77, 45, 31.) back 124 This defense has been preserved in Joseph Stennett, Works, IV, 318-335. back 125 Ibid., IV, 321. back 126 Ibid., IV, 323. back 127 Ibid., IV, 323f. back 128 Ibid., IV, 329. back 129 Ibid., IV, 330. back 130 British Museum - Catalogue of Printed books; Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography, I, 141. back 131 Ibid., I 142 back 132 British Museum - Catalogue of Printed books; back 133 Joseph Stennett, Works, I, B23. back 134 Ibid., Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography, I, 131. For some writings of Leslie's see John Martin Greed and John Sandwith Boys Smith, Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: 1734), pp. 52-55, 244-249. As to the seventh day as the Sabbath, in 1708, Stennett was the target of a book by Edward Elliot. back 135 Joseph Stennett, Works, I, B23. back 136 W. J. McLachlan, Socinianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1951), pp. 299f.; cf. 299-316. back 137 Ibid., p. 322; Walker, op. cit., pp. 494f. back 138 Pp. 62f. On page 62, Joseph Stennett, at the command of the church, excommunicated a woman. For removal from church membership, persons are usually only "withdrawn from." back 139 Samuel Stennett, A Charge Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Caleb Evans (Bristol: 1767), p. 48. back 140 On freedom of thought, see for example, Discourses on the Divine Authority and Various use of the Holy Scripture (1790); This reference may be found in his Works, III, 88. back |