I'm not so sure about that. I don't see the Baptist's being a part of your sect. Persecuted by it, but never a part of it.
"I'm not so sure about that. I don't see the Baptist's being a part of your sect. Persecuted by it, but never a part of it."
When the Fathers were writing, there were no Baptists, WF, though I understand that within the pat 100 years or so there has been an effort to connect at least some Protestant groups to some of the ancient sects which The Church called heretical. In one case, and I think it was with some group of Baptists, the claim was made that they were spiritually descended from the Montanists. That theory gained some surrency until someone pointed out who the Montanists were and what they believed. Another group briefly claimed spiritual descent from +John the Forerunner, but that got debunked too.
My point is that all Protestant pedigrees, eventually, go back to the Latin Church and by extension to the pre-Schism Church. I know that you don't agree with what your very distant ancestors, actual or spiritual, believed.