Nevermind that I rejected you as a heretic long ago (#84 on Thrd 67), you seem to either be very dense or have not read many of the postings made on this subject - or choose to ignore them?.
My post #43 on Thrd #137 dealt conclusively with early church history. (Go read it!)
For those who don't have the inclination to search out this post, all Christians until about 250 A.D. were Baptists and baptised Believers as did John the Baptist - immersed as adults previously saved. The rupture in the church at that time that finally resulted in Catholicism caused these early Christians to be called Anabaptists as they were opposed to the unScriptural practice of infant baptism - Baptists were already in existence when Romanism came into being.
"Were it not that the Baptists have been grievously tormented and cut off with the knife during the past twelve hundred years they would swarm in greater numbers than all the reformers." (Roman Catholic Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, 1504-1579, official representative of the pope and presiding officer of the Council of Trent.)
Incidentally, your own Proud 2B admitted the RC Church covered up these persecutions in his post #182 on Thrd #129.
So, like your RC buddy pegleg, you just cannot handle TRUTH! Baptist churches that had existed from apostolic times developed a denominational unity in Switzerland in 1523 in response to the chaos of the Reformation - Baptists are not Reformers!
There are many other sources that verify these facts of history - they are just not in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Anyone that believes Baptists’ have been around since Apostolic times lives in a fantasy world and can’t be taken seriously.
That quotation is a fraud. But what can we expect when you use The Trail of Blood as your history book.
Baptists are not Reformers
Your right, in the truest sense of the word they were not Reformers(neither were Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, etc... How can people who fractured the Body of Christ be called Reformers is beyond me). But they all, including the Baptists, have their origins in the Reformation[sic].
Pray for John Paul II