The Early English Baptists, 1603-49

A fresh examination of the Baptist movement, showing its growth and development to be more complex than hitherto assumed.

This book challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were divided from the first into two separate denominations, 'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in fact much more complicated. It describes how from the foundation of the 'Generals' in 1609 there were always t...