exemplar: the Westminster Confession of Faith.[30] In New England the Baptists were divided, as were the English, among the General Baptists and Particular Baptists[31] with no local doctrinal expression of their own. Consequently, doctrinal distinctions had less significance for Baptists prior to the Great Awakening. In the early colonies up until the turn of the seventeenth century, the basis of corporate unity lay primarily in their mutual rejection of infant baptism. However, there was even some