Baptist History (Part 1)

First Baptist Church of Byram

Baptist origins and beliefs in the 1600s.

• Baptist origins can be traced back to 17th-century England and Holland.
• Speaker 1 explains the differences between General and Particular Baptist beliefs.

Baptist theology, Calvinism, and the development of the Baptist faith in England.

• Arminianism emphasizes free will, not predestination.
• General Baptists believe in the possibility of falling from grace.
• In 1638, the first Particular Baptist church emerged in England, led by Henry Jesse, William Kiffin, and John Spilsbury. These men believed in particular atonement and the elect.
• Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy (1534) separated the Church of England from Rome.

English history, Protestantism, and Catholicism.

• Henry VIII's son Edward became Protestant, and then his sister Mary Tudor restored Catholicism.
• Queen Mary I earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" due to her persecution of Protestants.

Puritanism's origins and reforms in 16th-century England.

• In the 16th century, Protestant churches emerged due to rebellion in the Roman Catholic Church and the availability of the Bible in the people's language.
• Key figures such as Luther, Calvin, and Wycliffe preached and translated the Bible, leading to the birth of Protestantism.
• Puritans sought to reform the Church of England, led by Bishop Hooker and Thomas Cartwright.
• John Fox's Book of Martyrs fueled Protestant opposition to Catholicism and Puritan separatism.

Puritanism and separatism in 16th-century England.

• Puritans separated from the Church of England due to disagreements with teachings.
• In the 1550s, two separatist congregations existed in England: the Privy Church, led by Richard Fitz, and the Plumbers Hall congregation, led by William Boehm.
• Robert Brown, a separatist pastor, founded the Pioneer Church in 1851 and is credited with beginning the exodus of separatist ism.

Early English Baptist church history and separatism.

• Troubled church Brown disagreed with the Church of England's practices and believed they were not a true church.
• Henry Barrow and John Greenwood were among the new converts who wrote their own treatises, leading to imprisonment and book burning.
• Once resistant to separatism, Johnson was later convinced it was biblical and joined the Amsterdam congregation in 1597.
• John Robinson led the Pilgrim Church in separatist migration to America in 1620.

Early Baptist movement and its separation from the Church of England.

• Robinson established the nucleus for Pilgrim Fathers in America.
• Separatists took the Bible seriously and ordered their lives around its teachings.
• Baptists emerged due to separatists' rejection of creeds and dependence on stated forms.
• Baptists emerged from the English separatist movement, adopting beliefs in salvation by grace, believers' baptism, and religious liberty.