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Originally Posted by Presbyterian Deacon In 1525 Swiss Anabaptists broke with Zwingli.
1535 Anabaptists in Zurich were suppressed.
1537 Menno Simons became leader of the Dutch Anabaptists
1538 Efforts made to expell Anabaptists from England
1609 First English General Baptist Church formed in Holland
1611 Organization of First General Baptist Church in England
1638 The first Particular Baptist Church organized by Spilsbury
1638-39 Organization of the first Baptist church in America @ Providence RI by Roger Williams
1644 London Confession of 1644/ Organization of Association of London Particular Baptists.
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But NO "Baptist" activity prior to Zwingli. Sounds like a product of the Reformation to me.  |
1660 Organization of General Assembly of all Associations of General Baptists in London
1670 Organization of General Six-Principle Baptists in Rhode Island
1677 Baptist Confession of 1677 (a Baptist revision of WCF)
1689 General Assembly of General Baptists threatened by Arian teachings of Matthew Caffyn
1689 London Confession of Particular Baptists/ General Assembly of Particular Baptists organized in London
1707 Organization of Philadelphia Association of Baptists (first Baptist association in America). |
General Baptists are not Particular Baptists. They have their roots in the Anabaptists and are arminian. They also had various doctrines from church to church.
The 1677 was not a revision of the WCF but was a take off from the Savoy Declaration (which was a modified WCF by John Owen and Company) and was adopted in 1689 in London as the Confession of the Particular Baptist Churches to replace the 1644/46 LBCF.