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  • "Anti-Millenarians" among the brethren?

    "You charge us with having Baptists, Paedobaptists, Arminians, and Calvinists, Millenarians, Anti-Millenarians, and even Quakers. Well, are there not Paedobaptists, Arminians, Calvinists, Millenarians, Anti-Millenarians in the Establishment, and teaching too? And Quakers have been received there too: also they have been with us, and have been baptized as became them from the circumstances they were placed in. The only difference, then, on the point, is as to the existence of these various views in the minds of these amongst us. They being real Christians, we should undoubtedly feel it wrong to shut them out, and rejoice we can walk together in love." [Darby, in “The claims of the Church of England considered; being the close of a correspondence between the Rev. James Kelly, of Stillorgan, Ireland, and J.N. Darby” (1842).]

    Darby didn't repudiate the charge that there were "anti-millenarians" among the brethren - so was he conceding that point? If so, who would he have been thinking of?

     






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