All professed Christians, who admit that the Scriptures contain a model for church organization,  strenuously maintain that the denomination with which they are connected is formed after the scriptural pattern . This is true alike of Episco-palians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and others.
But it is abundantly evident, that while these denominations are so very dissimilar, they cannot all resemble one scriptural model. It is further evident, that some who make pretensions to be " the church ,” are not satisfied to rest their claim to that title, simply on a comparison of their or ganization with the New Testament pattern of a gospel church , but very gladly seek to bring in evidence from other quarters, by which they hope to support their cause. Jewish antiquity, the Fathers, Tradition, Expediency, are all pressed into their service, to supply the lack of evidence afforded in Scripture ; or, as is sometimes the case; to nullify and render powerless its direct testimony against them . All this, I say , is done by those who profess to find, in the New Testament alone, a warrant for their ecclesiastical sys- tems and organizations. They do not seem to perceive, that the very course which they adopt to support their claims, affords most conclusive evidence that they are false and vain.

But while some appeal to Tradition, and others to expediency, it is the glory of the Baptists that they act on the principle of the sufficiency of the Bible in testing this, as well as all other questions relating to religion.
BAPTIST THE ONLY THOROGH RELIGIONS REFORMERS, John Q. Adams, 1854, pg. 126, 127.