JM
Puritan Board Doctor
Interesting...
http://pbl.oldfaithbaptist.org/Ecclesiology/Particular Baptist Origins.pdf
http://pbl.oldfaithbaptist.org/Ecclesiology/Particular Baptist Origins.pdf
My THESIS is, those who revived adult baptism by dipping into England in the 1630-1640s era, first received it from the old Waldensian-Anabaptists. This I can demonstrate. I will show there was an unbroken succession connecting the Particular Baptists with the older Waldensian-Anabaptists. The inks in this succession are two men. They did it differently, but either way, the succession is there. The first is John Spilsbury, who accomplished this in the 1630s, and then Richard Blount who did the same, though in a different way, in the early 1640s. These two men laid the baptismal foundation for the Particular Baptist Churches that soon followed. They spread into New England in the late 1630s. From the London area, they reached out into all parts of England in the 1640s, and also went into Wales, Ireland and Scotland in the late 1640s and early 1650s.