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Excerpt from The Early English Baptists, Vol. 1
I do not offer this volume as a history of the English Baptists. It aims at no such dignity. The time has not yet come for the production of such a work. Other materials have yet to be collected, and vast and varied stores of information have yet to be explored From the national archives, the Bishops' courts, the writings of their opponents, and the productions of their own pens, much new and very valuable information will be gleaned. Hitherto, very little has been done in this department. Previous writers in our history, either from ignorance or other causes, have made no research. Ivimey is only the bare copyist of Crosby, and adds scarcely a grain of information to the stock the latter had accumulated. Facilities for investigation have now increased. The labours of the Record Commission are laying open to the public the rich stores of important historical materials which have lain unheeded for generations. It is matter of deep regret to the writer, that his distance fix)m London, and pastoral and public duties, have rendered it all but impossible for him to avail himself of these to any great extent.
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