^Morgan W. Patterson, Baptist Successionism - A Critical View, page 9, Valley Forge: Judson Press - 1969
^Torbet, Robert G. (1975). A History of the Baptists (3rd ed.). Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. p. 18. ISBN978-0817000745. "One of the oldest and most generally accepted theories until recent times may be called for our convenience the successionist theory. According to this opinion, Baptists have been in existence ever since the days of John the Baptist's ministry along the Jordan River."
^McGoldrick, James Edward. Baptist Successionism: A Crucial Question in Baptist History. ISBN0810836815
^Brackney, William H.. A genetic history of Baptist Thought: With Special Reference to Baptists in Britain and North America. ISBN0865549133
^ abMorgan W. Patterson, Baptist Successionism - A Critical View, page 6, Valley Forge: Judson Press - 1969
^McBeth, H. Leon (1987). The Baptist Heritage. Nashville: Broadman Press. p. 58. ISBN9780805465693
^Torbet, Robert G. (1975). A History of the Baptists (3rd ed.). Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. p. 19. ISBN978-0817000745
^Spittlehouse, John and John More (1652). "A Vindication of the Continued Succession...". London: Printed by Gartrude Dawson. Online at www.reformedreader.org
^Christian, John T. (1922). A History of the Baptists. Vol. 1. Nashville: Broadman Press. pp. 83–282
^McBeth, H. Leon (1987). The Baptist Heritage. Nashville: Broadman Press. p. 445. ISBN9780805465693
^原題:"Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Hervormde Kerk"by.Annaeus Ypeij and Izaak Johannes Dermout, Breda, 1819
^原文(英文):We have already seen that the Baptists - those who in former times were named Anabaptists, and in later days Mennonites - were originally Waldensians, the men who, in the history of the church, in times so far back, have obtained a well-deserved renown. In consequence, the Baptists may be regarded as being from of old the only religious denomination that have continued from the times of the apostles, as a Christian society who have kept the evangelical faith pure through all the ages hitherto. The constitution, never perverted internally or externally, of the society of the Baptists, serves them as a proof of that truth, contested by the Romish Church, that the reformation of religion, such as was brought about in the sixteenth century, was necessary, was indispensable, and serves, too, as the refutation, at the same time, of the Roman Catholic delusive fancy, that their own is the oldest church society.
^Christian, John T. (1922). A History Of The Baptists (2 vols.). Broadman Press
Revelation(17;5-6) And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. 《NEW KING JAMES Version》
^原文:But if it should be said, that the apostolic succession cannot be ascertained, and then it is proper to act without it; we say, that the loss of the succession can neither prove it futile, nor justify any one out of it. The Pedobaptists, by their own histories, admit they are not of it; but we do not, and shall think ourselves entitled to the claim, until the reverse be clearly shewn. And should any think authority derived from the MOTHER OF HARLOTS sufficient to qualify to administer a Gospel ordinance, they will be so charitable as not to condemn us for preferring that derived from Christ. And should any still more absurdly plead that ordination, received from an individual is sufficient; we leave them to shew what is the use of ordination, and why it exists. If any think an administration will suffice which has no pattern in the gospel; they will suffer us to act according to the divine order with impunity.
^原文:We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents.
^Cross, I.K. (1990). The Battle For Baptist History. Columbus, GA: Brentwood Christian Press. p. 174. ISBN9780892113378
^McBeth, H. Leon (1987). The Baptist Heritage. Nashville: Broadman Press. pp. 457–58. ISBN9780805465693