A Fish Caught in His Own Net: An Examination of Nine Sermons, from Matt. 16:18

Study the controversy over Separatist and Baptist churches in early New England with this response to Joseph Fish’s nine sermons on Matthew 16:18. Fish’s work argues that the “ ‘Standing Churches’ in New England, are built upon the Rock, and upon the same principles with the first fathers of this country: and that separates and Baptists are joining with the Gates of Hell against them.” Backus responds to these claims with this treatise in which “many of his mistakes are corrected; the constitution of those churches opened; the testimonies of prophets and apostles and also of many of those fathers are produced, which as plainly condemn his plan as any separate or Baptist can do.”