Transcript BAPTIST HISTORY LESSON FIVE

BAPTIST HISTORY
LESSON 5
RISE OF PARTICULAR BAPTISTS
Elizabeth
1558-1603
Elizabethan
Settlement
Puritans
James I
1603-1625
Failure of
Hampton Ct. Conf.
Book of Sports
Separatists
Charles I
1625-1649
English
Commonwealth
1649-1653
Arch Wm. Laud
Dismissed Part. ‘29
War on Scotland ‘40
1609: Smyth Church in Amsterdam/ 1612 Helwys in Spitalfields
GENERAL BAPTIST
Cromwell
1653-1658
Charles II
1660-1685
James II
1685-1688
William & Mary
1688-1702
RISE OF PARTICULAR BAPTISTS
I. Founding of Jacob, Lathrop, Jessey Church
1. Henry Jacob-(1616-1622)
2. John Lathrop-(1622-1634)
3. Henry Jessey-(1634-1637)
II. 1630- Mr. Dupper seceded; baptism by parish clergy invalid
III. 1633-Samuel Eaton received a “Further Baptism”
IV. 1638-Group of six men
“being convinced that Baptism was not for Infants, bur professed Believers
joyned with Mr. Jo. Spilsbury”
V. Jessey, Blunt and the Kiffen Manuscript
The Church became two by mutual consent just 1640 half being with Mr. P. Barebone, & [the] other half with
Mr. H. Jessey Mr. Richard Blunt with him being convinced of Baptism yet also it ought to be by dipping [the]
Body into [the] Water, resembling Burial and rising again. 2 Col: 2.12. Rom: 6.4. had sober conference about in
[the] Church, & then with some of the forenamed who also were so convinced: And after Prayer & conference
about
their
so enjoying
it, of
none
so soand
[sic]the
practised
in Enlandlooked
to professed
Believers,
& hearing
“But the
greatest
number
thehaving
Englishthen
Baptists,
more judicious,
upon all
this as needless
that some
in what
the Netherlands
had so
practised
they
agreed of
& sent
Mr. Richard
Blunt (who
trouble,
and
proceeded from
the
old Popish
Doctrine
rightover
to administer
sacraments
byunderstood
an
Dutch) with Letters
of Commendation,
who
kindly
& returned
with Letters
them John
uninterrupted
succession,
which neither
thewas
Church
of accepted
Rome, notthere,
the Church
of England,
much from
less the
Batte
a Teacher
there,
& from
that
Church
suchThey
as sent
him. therefore, and practiced accordingly, that
modern
dissenters,
could
prove
to be
with to
them.
affirmed,
after a general corruption of baptism, an unbaptized person might warrantably baptize, and so begin a
They
proceed on therein, viz, Those Persons yet were persuaded 1641 Baptism should be by dipping [the] Body
reformation.”
had met in two Companies, & did intend
so to meet
after
all these
proceed Vol.
alikeI,together.
Thomas
Crosby
Thethis,
History
of theagreed
EnglishtoBaptists,
pg 101 And
then Manifesting (not by any formal Words a Covenant) which word was scrupled by some of them, but by
mutual desires & agreement each Testified.
Those two Companies did set apart one to Baptize the rest; So it was solemnly performed by them.
Mr Blunt Baptized Mr. Blacklock yet was a Teacher amongst them, & Mr. Blunt being Baptized, he & Mr.
Blacklock Baptized [the] rest of their friends that ware so minded, & many being added to them they increased
much.
1. Were there no other churches practicing believers baptism in 1640?
2. Did Blunt travel to Holland to merely consult w/ Mennonites or to receive baptism from them?
3. Did Blunt baptize Blacklock, who then baptized Blunt?
The church voluntarily split in two: Jessey congregation & Praise-God Barebone (Barbon) congregation
VI. Different Particular Baptist Churches arising from JLJ Church
1. Spilsbury 1638
2. Eaton/Blunt 1640
3. Hanserd Knollys 1643
4. William Kiffen 1643
5. Henry Jessey 1645
“God had more light yet to break forth from his word”
BAPTISTS 1640-1660
I. Period of Revolution: 1640-1648
II. Period of Protectorate: 1649-1659
III. Baptist Highlights During Entire Period
A. Political Characteristics
Archbishop William Laud
Dismissed Parliament: expanded ‘law of
prerogative’
Force Book Common Prayer on Scotland;
They answer by raising army
Had to recall Parliament for money: surprise!
Parliament raises army: Oliver Cromwell
Civil War: 1642-1648
Cavalier army & Charles defeated
Parliament attempts to restore Charles
under strict guidelines
Charles II (1625-1649)
Charles resists; goes to France; returns with
army and is soundly defeated
April 1, 1649 Charles is beheaded
B. Religious
Characteristics
of this
periodand the Honourable Court of Parliament.
To the Kings
most Excellent
Maiesty,
1. High Baptist Visibility
The humble Petition of many his Maiesties loyall and faithfull subiects, some
of which
having beene
miserably persecuted by the Prelates and their
a. Pamphlet
Warfare
Adherents,
by all
rigorous courses, for their Consciences, practicing nothing
Baptism
by dipping
but what was instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ, who was Lord of all
Local churches
right28.19.
to its own
minister
Administrations,
Math.
and
practiced by the Primitive Christians;
“making
theMaiestie
presses sweat
undersothe
load of
great blasphemies”
submitting
to his
andand
hisgroan
Lawes,
farre
astheir
concernes
our Estates,
Libertie,
and Lives;
and so, as we conceive, give to Cæsar the things that are
b. Public
Disputations
Cæsars, and to God those things that are his.
1641-1700: 109 public disputations (79 between 1641-1660!)
c. Baptists in the Army
“almost to a man they were supporters of the Parliamentary cause, which was the cause of liberty,
religious as well as civil. Large numbers of Baptists took service in the armies of Parliament, some
of whom rose to high rand, and were much trusted by the Lord Protector, Cromwell.”
H.C. Vedder A Short History of the Baptist, p. 219
d. Confessions of Faith
(1) General Baptists
(a) The Faith and Practice of Thirty Congregations (1651)
(b) The Standard Confession (1660)
(c) The Orthodox Confession (1678)
(2) Particular Baptists
(a) The First London Confession (1644)
(b) The Midland Confession (1655)
(c) The Somerset Confession (1656)
John Spilsbury (c. 1596-c. 1662/64)
“Though few men may legitimately be called pioneers, John Spilsbury deserves that title”
James Renihan John Spilsbury in The British Particular Baptists, Vol. 1, p 21
Also one Spilsbery rose up of late
(Who doth, or did dwell over Aldersgate)
His office
wasthe
to Lawfull
weighsubject
Hay by
the Trusse
1643 A Treatise
Concerning
of Baptisme
(Fit forThe
the
pallat
of Bucephalus)
1646 God’s Ordinance,
Saints
Priviledge
He in short time left his Hay-weighing trade,
And afterwards he Irish Stockings made:
What constitutes aHe
truerebaptiz’d
church?
in Anabaptist fasion
1. The right preaching
of the(of
Word
of new
God “fit..for
and form’
One Eaton
the
foundmatter
separation)
2. Confession of personal faith
A zealous Button-maker, grave and wise,
3. Voluntary covenant constituting the church
And gave him orders, others to baptize;
4. Proper use of the ordinances
Who was so apt to learn in one day
Hee’d do’t as well as Spilsbery weigh’d Hay.
1642: 10 articles of faith
1644: signer of the First London Confession of Faith