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Christian History Magazine—Issue 6: The Baptists is unavailable, but you can change that!

This issue of Christian History & Biography reveals the origin of this steadfast group of believers who fought through a century of persecution to revolutionize the Church-State relationship and practice baptism by immersion only.

Many General Baptist churches became unorthodox in their view of the person of Christ, and by the end of the century had become Unitarian. The 18th Century opened for Particular Baptists with the threat of doctrinal deviation also. Particular Baptist Associations were reformed on the basis of the 1689 Confession of Faith, subscribed by over a hundred congregations at a meeting in London. In the west country, Bristol Baptist Academy, from 1720 onwards, produced a steady stream of able and evangelical