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Title: The Baptist encyclopaedia : a dictionary of the doctrines, ordinances, usages, confessions of faith, sufferings, labors, and successes, and of the general history of the Baptist denomination in all lands ; with numerous biographical sketches of distinguished American and foreign Baptists, and a supplement
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Cathcart, William, 1826-1908
Subjects: Baptists Baptists
Publisher: Philadelphia : Louis H. Everts
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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f the Nonconformists, and washeld in high esteem by all parties for his fidelitj tojjis principles and his unfailing courtesy of l)e-havior. He published in 1863 a book on Taxa-tion, its Levy and Expenditure, and in 1S6C Re-sources and Prospects of America, the fruit of asojourn of several weeks in this countrj. Petrobrusians, The.—Peter dc Bruys was theCatholic priest of an obscure parish in France,which he left, early in the twelfth century, whenho became a preacher of the gospel. How he un-learned the gospel of the Seven Hills and was in-structed in that of Calvary we cannot toll, butho was educated in botli directions. JIany Roman-ists, like Staupitz or Fenelon, have received thesaving knowledge of Jesus and retained their con-nection with the papal church ; but Peter abhorredpopery. He taught that l)aptism was of no advantage toinfants, .and that only lielicvors should receive it,and he gave a new baptism to all his converts; hecondemned the use of churches and altars, no doubt
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FIFTH BAPTIST CHURCH, FIULADELIHIA, IA. PETROBRUSIANS 912 PETJiOBRUSIANS for the idolatry practised in them ; he denied thatthe body and blood of Christ are to be found in thebread and wine of the Supper, and he taught thatthe elements on the Lords table are but signs ofChrists flesh.and blood; he asserted that the offer-ings, prayers, and good works of the living couldnot profit the dead, that their state was fixed foreternity the moment they left the earth; like theEnglish Baptists of the seventeenth century, andlike the Quakers of our day, he believed that it waswrong to sing the praises of God in worship; andhe rejected the adoration of crosses, and destroyedthem wherever he found them. It is said that on a Good-Friday the Petrobru-sians once gathered a great multitude of theirbrethren, who brought with them all the crossesthey could find, and that they made a large fire ofthem, on which they cooked meat, and gave it tothe vast assemblage. This is told as an illustrationof their b

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