denominations which had grown out of the Baptist tradition that men like Gill and Bunyan had helped to define, had, for the most part, subsequently abandoned the doctrines of grace. Somewhere along the way, those denominations that had once managed to embrace both Reformed truth concerning redemption and the practice of believer’s baptism had later found themselves holding only to the latter. Ultimately, as I will explain in a later chapter, I came to believe that this was no accident, but a natural