A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . Anna Margaretta Mack, 3. Joanna Noethiger, or Bony, 4. Andrew Bony, 5. George Grebi, 6. Lucas Vetter, 7. John Kipping, 8. Joanna Kipping. A third list, as given by Morgan Edwards, in Ma-terials toward a History of the America?i Baptists, pub-lished in 1770, Vol. I, Part IV, is as follows: 1. Alexander Mack, 2. His wife, 3. Joanna Nethegeim, 4. Andreas Bhoney, 5. George Grevy, 6. Lucas Fetter, 7. John Kipin, 8. His wife. I will add one additional list, in the hope that acareful study of the names may lead to the properrendering of
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . Anna Margaretta Mack, 3. Joanna Noethiger, or Bony, 4. Andrew Bony, 5. George Grebi, 6. Lucas Vetter, 7. John Kipping, 8. Joanna Kipping. A third list, as given by Morgan Edwards, in Ma-terials toward a History of the America?i Baptists, pub-lished in 1770, Vol. I, Part IV, is as follows: 1. Alexander Mack, 2. His wife, 3. Joanna Nethegeim, 4. Andreas Bhoney, 5. George Grevy, 6. Lucas Fetter, 7. John Kipin, 8. His wife. I will add one additional list, in the hope that acareful study of the names may lead to the properrendering of the list of these first members.(3) 1. Alexander Mack, 2. Anna Margareta Mack, 3. Joanna Noetinger, 4. Alexander Bony, 5. George Grebe, 6. Luke Vetter, 7. John Kipping, 8. Joanna Kipping, These eight members of the pioneer church werenot a group of local enthusiasts, nor were they irre- (i) List as given in Chronicon Ephraiense. p. 2. (2) A Plain View of the Rites and Ordinances of the House of God, p. 9. (3) Genealogy of the Urner Family, p. 8. :?: ?^ Tlic Mother Congrcgatioii in Germany. 33 ligious prior to the organization of the Taufers orTunkers. Alexander Mack was from Schriesheim;Luke Vetter and George Grebi were from Hesse-Cas-sel; Andrew Bony was from Basle in Switzerland; andJohn Kipping was from Bareit in Wiirtemberg. Theywere refugees from intolerance and persecution, livingtemporarily in Wittgenstein, because it was at thattime ruled by the mild and humane Count Heinrichvon Wittgenstein. They were all members of a Protestant church be-fore 1708. Kipping was a Lutheran, Mack, Vetter,Bony, and Grebi were bred Presbyterians.() Butthey were by no means satisfied with the formalismand ritualism with which their spirits were the other hand they could not fully and unreserv-edly adopt the faith of the Pietists whose utter hatredfor all church organization had led them to abandonthe ordinances of the house of God. Rejecting on theone hand the creed of ma
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