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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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Will Campbell said to the southern Baptists that we spend more time in blow-drying our hair than wrestling with our history.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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It is evident from a study of the record that Baptists have had an important part in the history of Fulton.
Baptists, throughout their history have always stood on the side of freedom, even freedom for those in the minority.
This marked the first time in the 177-year history of the state Southern Baptists convention that it has taken such an action.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This study of the history of the Baptists especially focuses on the English Calvinistic Baptists from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries and the Canadian Baptist experience in Ontario from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
Included are materials on the following groups: FREEWILL BAPTISTS--One of the strongest collections anywhere of books and periodicals on the history of Freewill Baptists.
The Angus Library contains more than 70,000 items relating to the life and history of Baptists in Britain and the wider scene.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Very little written history remains of the Welsh Baptists during the dark ages of Catholic occupation up to the reformation of the English Catholics by Henry VIII.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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The assertion of the Baptists that the original practice of the Christian Church consisted in the baptism only of adults that had consciously accepted the faith is an argument that holds little weight, not having confirmation in Church history.
This opposition was grounded in the Baptists' reading of the New Testament and also of ecclesiastical history which demonstrated, that state support of religion inevitably corrupted the churches.
Never before in the history of Baptists have we allowed a confession of faith to become a binding creed!
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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His major work Materials Toward A History of the Baptists is an important seminal work outlining American Baptist history of the era.
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