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"It is with the outmost freedom I ad[d]ress myself to that reasonable service now required of me, of declaring in this publick manner, those Articles of my faith I have extracted from the word of God. … read more

Actual photograph of the dungeon at Warwick, England, where religious dissenters were imprisoned for conscience’ sake during the Restoration period of the Stuart King Charles II, 1660-1685. The octago … read more

George Barclay . . . served in one church for thirty-six years. He was a Baptist by conviction. . . The uniqueness of the ecclesiology of his congregation was such that there was no other similar caus … read more

Seven years or so after the Woodstock Riot Hinton observed in an ordination sermon that “[t]he study of history usually fills the benevolent mind with distress.” Doubtless at the time of this remark … read more

At the time of his death in September 1834, James Upton’s congregation at Church Street, Blackfriars, was the largest Baptist church in London. His pastorate there for nearly half a century bears tes … read more