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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 29
18 For, in the first place, when you come
together as a church, I hear that there are
divisions among you. And I believe it in part, 
19 for there must be factions among you in order
that those who are genuine among you may be
recognized.
1 Corinthians 1118-19
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Origin of Baptists
SPONTANEOUS
APOSTOLIC
1) Historical succession
2) Perpetuity of distinctives
ANABAPTIST KINSHIP
ENGLISH SEPERATISTS
CONVERGENT VIEW
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BAPTISTS
PARTICULAR
GENERAL
PURITAN SEPERATIST
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GAINSBOROUGH 1602 JOHN SMYTH
SCROOBY 1606 ROBINSON/BREWSTER
1608 Holland

• New World (America)
• Pilgrims

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GAINESBOROUGH
1607 HOLLAND
1609 Dutch Waterlander
Doctrine vs. Ecclesiology
BAPTIST IDENTITY
Soul Liberty freedom/voluntarism
Coherent-Truth above with doctrinal basis
1611 Thomas Helwys Returned to England
Spitalsford First constituted Baptist Ch
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GENERAL BAPTISTS
1626 5 churches
1644 47 churches in loose affiliation
1651 Faith Practice's of 30 Congregations
Gathered in the Primitive
Pattern
1678 Orthodox Creed
General Councils
divine authority, and . . . are the best means
under heaven to preserve unity and prevent heresy
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PARTICULAR BAPTISTS
1616 Henry Jacob Puritan Independent Congregation
John Lathrop
Jacob/Lathrop Group
1633 John Spillsbury
1639 5 identifiable Baptist churches
1641 ought to be by dipping ye Body into ye
Water, resembling Burial and rising again
1644 Seven Particular Baptist Churches
1. To distinguish themselves from Anabaptists
2. To draw attention to their Calvinistic
doctrine
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John Spillsbury/William Kiffen/Samuel Richardson
That Christ Jesus by this death did bring forth
salvation and reconciliation onely for the elect,
which were those which God the Father gave him,
and that the Gospel which is to be preached to
all men as the ground of faith, is, that Jesus is
the Christ, the Sonne of the everblessed God,
filled with the perfection of all heavenly and
spirituall excellencies, and that the salvation
is onely and alone to be had through the
believing in his Name. (Original spelling
maintained)
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1646 Presented to Parliament
March 4, 1647 Officially recognized and
granted legal toleration
CONTEXT 1660-1689 Restoration Chas
II/Persecution of Dissenting Churches
1677 Second London Confession
1689 General Assembly of Particular Baptists
Benjamin Keach Hanserd Knollys William Kiffen
Father of Particular Baptist
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• Shared Characteristics
• Closed membership only baptized believers

• Open communion

• Preference for the Lords Day

• Promotion of an educated and ordained ministry

Does the 1644 Confession contain New Covenant
Theology?
How do the Baptist fare after toleration?
Gospel Standard or Strict Baptist
1792 English Baptist Missionary Society
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New England
1639
Roger Williams or John Clarks group
1663 Rehoboth moved to Swansea in 1667
Maine William Screven Sept. 25, 1682
Moves to Charleston, SC 1684
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MIDDLE COLONIES
1688 Lower Dublin Church
1689 Began yearly general meeting
devotional/evangelistic help
July 27, 1707 Philadelphia Baptist Association
Regular Baptists
Were these churches confessional?
1712 all were advised to ascribe to Elias Keachs
confession
1724 Referred a question to the Confession of
Faith set forth by the elders in London in 1689,
and owned by us.
1743 Philadelphia Confession of Faith