General Baptists / Particular Baptists ?

[DeaconDean]

Which are older: "Particular" Baptists or "General" Baptist?

If you count what FreeinChrist said:

Particular Baptists came out of the Puritan separatist movement from the Church of England in the 1600s a bit later along with Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Quakers.

Particular Baptists. You must remember that the first settlers in the Americas were Puritans/Pilgrams (Anabaptists) fleeing from religious persecutions in England and Europe.

Anabaptists were the first followed closely by Particular Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc.

Strangly enough, the Particular Baptists were the first religious group to write a "confession" in the Americas that dated to 1742. The Presbyterians just voted to adopt the Westminster Confession in 1729.

The Philadelphia Baptist Association Confession of Faith of 1742, is the earliest written "confession" that I know of in the "new land" and it was written by Particular/Calvinistic Baptists. I might be wrong, but I have looked for and cannot find a "confession" written in the Americas, that pre-dates the Philadelphia Baptist Associations.

God Bless

Till all are one.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Which are older: "Particular" Baptists or "General" Baptist?

General Baptists - not referring to the General Baptist convention. However, both were very close in time of emergence. It really is hard to say which really was the oldest.

 

[JM]

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