I was born into a high church, high Calvinistic Continental Reformed Church. My father took us to a Conservative, Mid-Church, High Calvinist Presbyterian church (partly for doctrine issues and partly for geographic ones). Reading John Gill and others has led me, alongside my husband, into a creedal 'independent' Reformed Baptist congregation, which has English and Continental influences. As we've continued to look into the Reformed and Baptist traditions I have discovered again and again that the Particular and Strict Baptists are actually very much similar to where we wound up, though no one in our church was trying to be that to start with. It's perhaps not surprising (there are correct views and someone else might have arrived at them through different historical circumstance), but I get the impression that they're not very well known today in general. Does the US have any significant presence of Strict Baptists? Most of those I've found are from the past, and England.
