A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . - wereinternally and strongly impressed with the necessit)of the obedience of faith to a soul that desired to besa\-ed. And this impression also led them at the time TJic Mother Congregation in Germany. 37 to the mystery of water-baptism, which appeared untotlem as a door into the church, which was what theyso earnestly sought. Baptism, however, was spokenof among the Pietists in very different ways, and themanner in which it was sometimes spoken of causedpain to the hearts of tl\ose that loved the Schwarzenau. Finally, i
A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America . - wereinternally and strongly impressed with the necessit)of the obedience of faith to a soul that desired to besa\-ed. And this impression also led them at the time TJic Mother Congregation in Germany. 37 to the mystery of water-baptism, which appeared untotlem as a door into the church, which was what theyso earnestly sought. Baptism, however, was spokenof among the Pietists in very different ways, and themanner in which it was sometimes spoken of causedpain to the hearts of tl\ose that loved the Schwarzenau. Finally, in the year 1708, eight persons consentedtogether to enter into a covenant of a good consciencewith God, to take up all the commandments of JesusChrist as an easy yoke, and thus to follow the LordJesus, their good and faithful shepherd, in joy andsorrow, as his true sheep, even unto a blessed eight persons were as follows, namely, five 38 History of the BrctJircn. brethren and three sisters. The five brethren were,George Grebi, from Hesse-Cassel, the first; Lucas Vet-ter, likewise from Hessia, the second; the third wasAlexander Mack, from the Palatinate of Schriesheim,between Mannheim and Heidelberg; the fourth wasAndrew Bony, of Basle, in Switzerland; the fifth, JohnKipping, from Bareit, in Wiirtemberg. The three sis-ters were, Joanna Noethiger, or Bony, the first; AnnaMargaretha Mack, the second; and Joanna Kipping,the third. These eight persons covenanted and united togetheras brethren and sisters into the covenant of the crossof Jesus Christ to form
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