Contents

  • FOREWORD (by Reverend Richard Bacon)
  • Introduction (by Rev. Prof. Dr. F.N. Lee)
  • Who were the Anabaptists and who are their stepchildren?
  • Anabaptist views in general altogether foreign to Holy Scripture
  • Anabaptist views contrary also to the history of the Early Church
  • After 250 A.D.: submersionism and other baptismal heresies
  • The non-baptizing Paulicians and the infant-damning Petrobrusians
  • The Waldensians maintained the infant baptism of tiny Christians
  • The impact on baptism of Thomistic Roman Catholicism
  • Wycliffe and Huss and their followers on infant baptism
  • The influence of Wycliffe through Huss upon Luther
  • The rebaptismal error of the Bohemian 'Minor United Brethren'
  • The United Bohemian Brethren recanted the error of rebaptism
  • The Bohemian Confession(s) on rebaptism from 1504 onward
  • God maintained His baptism despite the Church's mediaeval meanderings
  • Luther on infants' faith and reason before their infant baptism
  • Luther on covenant infants' faith at or even before their baptism
  • The roots and the rise of the Anabaptist heretics
  • The Anabaptist attack against the Protestant Reformation
  • Anabaptism's Muenzer or Muentzer: the monster of Muhlhausen
  • Huebmaier the Anabaptist and the road to revolution
  • The Anabaptists and the 1525 Peasant War in Germany
  • Muenzerite Anabaptists still continued to help spread the sedition
  • Luther on the antinomian and antipaidobaptistic Muenzerites
  • Luther's antirebaptismal work Concerning Rebaptism
  • The condemnation of Anabaptism in the Lutheran Symbols
  • Switzerland disturbed by the Anabaptist heresies
  • Zwingli's first condemnation of the Anabaptists' views on baptism
  • The formal birth and constitution of Switzerland's Anabaptists
  • The Anabaptists, rebaptizing defiantly, expelled from Switzerland
  • Zwingli's various writings against the errors of the Anabaptists
  • Zwingli's antirebaptismal Questions Concerning Rebaptism
  • Zwingli's antirebaptismal Declaration of Christian Faith
  • Early Anabaptists outside of Switzerland and Germany
  • Pseudo-Clement, Pseudo-Isidore, and Anabaptist communism
  • Anabaptist polygamy and community of wives: its roots
  • The Dutch Anabaptist Leaders Obbe and Dirck Philips
  • The awful actions of Anabaptism in its 'millenium' at Muenster
  • Polygamy since Muenster: the awful aftermath of Anabaptism
  • Obbe Philips recants in his Recollections of the Years 1533-1536
  • Obbe Philips on the Hofmannite Anabaptist Jan Matthys
  • Obbe on the interaction between the Dutch and the Muenster Anabaptists
  • The not-so-peaceful Anabaptist Menno Simons
  • The Antitrinitarian Anabaptist Servetus (or Miguel Serveto)
  • The influence of Servetus among Anabaptists internationally
  • Candid assessment of the Anabaptists' faith and practice
  • Nature of the baptistic views of the Anabaptists
  • Butzer, Oecolampadius and the 1532 First Basle Confession on baptism
  • The 1536 Second Basle or First Helvetic Confession on baptism
  • The development of the paidobaptist Calvin's anti-Anabaptist views
  • The mature Calvin's commitment to infant faith before baptism
  • Unitarian Anabaptist Servetus versus Trinitarian Reformer Calvin
  • Calvin's wife and babies and his many contacts with Anabaptists
  • Calvin's opposition to the Anabaptists' soul-sleep theory
  • Anabaptist soul-sleep refuted in Calvin's Psychopannychia
  • Calvin's anti-revolutionary 1544 Treatise Against the Anabaptists
  • The Anabaptist doctrine of 'flesh' refuted by Calvin
  • Calvin refutes the Anabaptist denial of postmortal consciousness
  • Pseudo-glossolaly of the Anabaptists refuted by Calvin
  • Calvin refutes the denial of the soul's immortality
  • Anabaptism's sexual immorality refuted by Calvin
  • Calvin refutes Anabaptism's community of goods
  • Anabaptism's superspiritualistic ecstasy refuted by Calvin
  • Baptistic misallegations that Calvin favoured submersionism
  • Calvin refuted the Anabaptists from Matthew 19:14
  • The Great Commission implies faith within covenant infants
  • Calvin's 1542 Form[ula] of Administering Baptism
  • "Be baptized [Acts 2:38f]: for the promise is to you and to your children!"
  • Rev. Prof. Dr. John Calvin's baptismal comments on Acts 2:38f
  • Were also the infants of believing Samaritan adults baptized?
  • Cornelius and his family trusted God long before their baptism
  • The actions of Paul in Antioch and Philippi condemn the Anabaptists
  • Calvin insists Acts 19:1-6 does not teach rebaptism
  • Calvin refutes the Anabaptist views against paidobaptism
  • Calvin on why the babies of believers should be baptized
  • Calvin said Anabaptists and Romanists were not too dissimilar on baptism
  • Calvin's strongly anti-Anabaptist paidobaptism
  • Calvin refutes Gnesio-Lutheran slander that he was an "Anabaptist"
  • Calvin's final words of opposition to the Anabaptists
  • The Early British Anabaptists from 1534 onward
  • The anti-Anabaptist Edwardine Articles of 1553
  • The anti-Anabaptist Thirty-nine Articles of 1563f
  • Continuation of the anti-Anabaptist Thirty-nine Articles
  • John Knox's writings against the Anabaptists
  • The English Anabaptists called the 'Family of Love'
  • The Belgica condemns the various views of the Anabaptists
  • Guido De Bres's 1570 book against the Anabaptists
  • Bullinger's anti-Anabaptist Second Swiss Confession
  • Monolithic opposition of all the Reformers to Anabaptism
  • Mutual influence of Continental and British anti-Anabaptists
  • The anti-Anabaptist and anti-Romish 1615 Irish Articles
  • The anti-Anabaptist 'T-U-L-I-P' Decrees of the Synod of Dordt
  • The influence of the 1618f Synod of Dordt upon Britain
  • Anti-Anabaptist background of Britain's Westminster Assembly
  • Baptist Professors on the origin and development of the (Ana)Baptists
  • Many modern Baptists say their pioneers derive from the Anabaptists
  • The arrival and expansion of (Ana)Baptists in North America
  • British (Ana)Baptist Confessions of the seventeenth century
  • The reply to the (Ana)Baptists of the Calvinistic Westminster Assembly
  • How to "crucify the Son of God afresh": the sin of rebaptism
  • The great sin of leaving one's own babies unbaptized
  • Godly methods for overcoming Anabaptist influences
  • The inevitable conversion of the Anabaptists' stepchildren
  • (Ana)Baptists of all countries -- repent!