It is with difficulty that men strive to define “Baptists.” Some obviously find that the blast of the Baptist trumpet and the boom of the denominational drum clash incongruously with what they view as twentieth-century faith. But those who prize the name do so as one of several in their history, not all of which were fondly given or received. The vernacular description “commonly called Anabaptists” appears at the front of the 1644 London Baptist Confession. This colloquial error reappears