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Joseph Stennett

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88      An Answer to ... Russen , p. 244.
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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.
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90     Joseph Stennett, An Answer to ... Russen p. iv; cf. p. iii.
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91      Ibid ., p. 5.
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92      Ibid .,
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93      Ibid ., pp. 11f.
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94      Ibid ., pp. 136-139.
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95      Ibid ., p. 250.
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96     Joseph Stennett, An Answer to ... Russen p. 251.
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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.
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98     Joseph Stennett, Works , IV, i-iv.
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99      An Answer to ... Russen p. iv.
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100      Ibid ., pp. 16f.
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101      Ibid ., pp. 35f
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102      Ibid ., pp. 61 ff.
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103      Ibid ., p. 68.
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104      Ibid ., pp. 115, 120.
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105      Ibid ., p. 207.
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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."
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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.)
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108     Joseph Stennett, An Answer to ... Russen p. 225.
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109      Ibid ., p. 247.
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110      Ibid ., p. 142.
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111      Ibid ., p. 2.
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112      Ibid ., p. 40.
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113      Ibid ., pp. 154f.
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114     Joseph Stennett, Works , I B2Of.
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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).
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116     Joseph Stennett, Works , I, B23; Wall, op. cit. , (1860), p. lxv.
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117     The only Baptist reply was a belated one by Dr. John Gale which appeared in 1711 (Ivinmy, op. cit. , IV, 214).
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118     p. III.
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119     Wall, op. cit ., (edition ca. 1875), II, 12, 17, 139, 187, 199, 268, 289, 299.
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120      Ibid ., II, 268.
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121      Ibid ., II, 299.
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122     Baptists, Presbyterians and Independents (the Congregationalists of today).
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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.)
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124     This defense has been preserved in Joseph Stennett, Works , IV, 318-335.
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125      Ibid ., IV, 321.
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126      Ibid ., IV, 323.
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127      Ibid ., IV, 323f.
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128      Ibid ., IV, 329.
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129      Ibid ., IV, 330.
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130      British Museum - Catalogue of Printed books ; Whitley, A Baptist Bibliography , I, 141.
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131      Ibid ., I 142
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132      British Museum - Catalogue of Printed books ;
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133     Joseph Stennett, Works , I, B23.
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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.
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135     Joseph Stennett, Works , I, B23.
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136     W. J. McLachlan, Socinianism in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1951), pp. 299f.; cf. 299-316.
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137      Ibid ., p. 322; Walker, op. cit ., pp. 494f.
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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."
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139     Samuel Stennett, A Charge Delivered at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Caleb Evans (Bristol: 1767), p. 48.
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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.
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