{"id":640,"date":"2014-08-12T14:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=640"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:09:07","slug":"baptist-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=640","title":{"rendered":"Baptist History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Please Note:<\/strong>&nbsp;These historical documents may or may not represent the current position of Free Will Baptists on any given issue. Many files are Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files. They are quite large and may take a long time to download. For ease of viewing, download only the files in which you are interested and read them at your leisure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Authentic-Details-Of-The-Valdenses.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Authentic Details of the Valdenses<\/a>&nbsp;(1825)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=HypHAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">The Baptist Denomination: Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By D. C. Haynes (1856)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=oMETAAAAYAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Baptists and the American Revolution<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By William Cathcart (1876)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=mdp.39015064372769;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">The Baptists in America; A Narrative of the Deputation from the Baptist Union in England to the United States and Canada<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By F. A. Cox and J. Hoby (1836)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dL01AQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=benoni%20stinson%20and%20the%20general%20baptists&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q=benoni%20stinson%20and%20the%20general%20baptists&amp;f=false\">Benoni Stinson and the General Baptists<\/a><br>By A.D. Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"The Book of Religions - Hayward\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bookofreligion00hayw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book of Religions<\/a><br>By John Hayward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Brief History of the Liberal Baptist People\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/baptist\/BriefHistoryoftheLiberalBaptistPeople.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Brief History of the Liberal Baptist People in England and America<\/a><br>By Elders G.W. Million and G.A. Barrett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/ChristianismusPrimitivusSM.pdf\">Christianismus Primitivus low resolution<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/ChristianismusPrimitivusLG.pdf\">high resolution<\/a><br>By Thomas Grantham<br>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helwyssocietyforum.com\/?p=5137\">Read more<\/a> about Thomas Grantham and his defining work.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6TdfAAAAcAAJ&amp;dq=CONCISE%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20KEHUKEE%20BAPTIST%20ASSOCIATION%2C&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist Association<\/a><br>By Elders Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=hvd.hw26p4;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">The Centennial Record of Free Will Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;(1881)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=wu.89064058860;view=2up;seq=4\" target=\"_blank\">The Free Will Baptist Story<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Damon C. Dodd (1957)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=loc.ark:\/13960\/t45q6g15m;view=2up;seq=4\" target=\"_blank\">General Baptist History<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By D. B. Montgomery (1882)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-EDmlW8azaUC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">George Fox, the Friends, and the Early Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By William Tallack (1868)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6Vkz2xyFcA0C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Vindications: A Discourse on the Province and Uses of Baptist History<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Sewall S. Cutting (1859)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/benedict-general-history-baptists-1813-v-2\/\">A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World, Vol. 2,<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By David Benedict (1813)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=dxoyrRw1u6sC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By David Benedict (1848)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=inu.32000001195033;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and Other Parts of the World<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By David Benedict (1850)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"A History of All Religions - Schmucker\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=aBlWAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=history%20of%20all%20religions&amp;pg=PA1#v=onepage&amp;q=history%20of%20all%20religions&amp;f=false\">A History of All Religions<\/a><br>By Samuel M. Schmucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/historyofbaptist00burr\">History of the Baptists in New England&nbsp;<\/a><br>By Henry S. Burrage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=uc1.$b57373;view=2up;seq=4\" target=\"_blank\">A History of Baptists in the Middle States<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Henry Clay Vedder (1898)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/shelley-bruce-history-of-conservative-baptists\/\" target=\"_blank\">A History of Conservative Baptists, 3rd ed.<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Bruce Shelley (1981)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=wCrmT5eki7YC&amp;dq=A%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20BAPTIST%20CHURCHES%20IN%20THE%20UNITED%20STATES&amp;pg=PP9#v=onepage&amp;q=A%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20BAPTIST%20CHURCHES%20IN%20THE%20UNITED%20STATES&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States<\/a><br>By Albert Henry Newman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"History of the Free Churchmen\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historyoffreechu00hoop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of the Free churchmen called the Brownists, Pilgrim fathers and Baptists in the Dutch republic, 1581-1701<\/a><br>By J. De Hoop Scheffer and William Elliot Griffis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RIYuAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=%22history%20of%20general%20baptists%20or%20six&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">History of the General or Six Principle Baptists&nbsp;<\/a><br>By Richard Knight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/backus-ne-baptist-history-v-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">A History of New England with Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists, 2nd ed., Vol. 1<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Isaac Backus (1871)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/newman-history-us-baptist-churches-v-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">A History of the Baptist Churches in the United States<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Albert Henry Newman (1915)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=wu.89067954651;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">A History of the Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Robert G. Torbet (1950)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Y97RAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=Jones%20church%20history%20dover&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q=Jones%20church%20history%20dover&amp;f=false\">The History of the Christian Church From the Birth of Christ to the XVIII Century<\/a><br>By William Jones<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=DYcwAQAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">A History of the English Baptist Mission to India<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Baron Stow (1835)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"History of North Carolina Free Will Baptists, Volume 1\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historyofnorthca11pasc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of North Carolina Baptists, Volume 1<\/a><br>By George Washington Paschal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"History of North Carolina Free Will Baptists, Volume 2\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/historyofnorthca21pasc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History of North Carolina Baptists, Volume&nbsp;2<\/a><br>By George Washington Paschal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Z7Y7AAAAcAAJ&amp;dq=History%20of%20the%20Religious%20Denominations%20rupp&amp;pg=PR3#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">History of the Religious Denominations Now Existing in the United States<\/a><br>By I. Daniel Rupp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/catalog.hathitrust.org\/Record\/001593283?type%5B%5D=subject&amp;lookfor%5B%5D=Baptists&amp;bool%5B%5D=AND&amp;type%5B%5D=subject&amp;lookfor%5B%5D=History&amp;ft=ft\" target=\"_blank\">A History of the English Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Joseph Ivimey (4 vols, 1811-1830)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=njp.32101068997673;view=2up;seq=2\" target=\"_blank\">The History of the English General Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Adam Taylor (1818)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=mdp.39015071429206;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">The History of Free Will Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By I. D. Stewart (1862)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=njp.32101068102837;view=2up;seq=10\" target=\"_blank\">History of the Swedish Baptists in Sweden and America<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Gustavus Schroeder (1898)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=PPbQAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=religious%20denominations%20belcher&amp;pg=PR3#v=onepage&amp;q=religious%20denominations%20belcher&amp;f=false\">Religious Denominations in the United States<\/a><br>By Joseph Belcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"John Smith the se-Baptist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/johnsmithsebapti00burgrich\">John Smith the Se-Baptist, Thomas Helwys, and the first Baptist church in England<\/a><br>By Walter H. Burgess<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"A Short History of the Baptists - Vedder\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=gcISAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=A%20Short%20History%20of%20the%20Baptists&amp;pg=PA2#v=onepage&amp;q=A%20Short%20History%20of%20the%20Baptists&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Short History of the Baptists<\/a><br>By Henry C. Vedder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ld5LAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=john%20smith%20the%20se-baptist&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q=john%20smith%20the%20se-baptist&amp;f=false\">The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-Baptist: As Told by Himself<\/a><br>By Henry Martyn Dexter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SakpAAAAYAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Lectures on Baptist History<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By William R. Williams (1877)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=aeu.ark:\/13960\/t9669q01s;view=2up;seq=7;size=125\" target=\"_blank\">A Perpetual Baptist Calendar and Remembrancer<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By E. O. White (1901)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/lofton-george-a-review-of-the-question\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Review of the Question<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By George Augustus Lofton (1897)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_st-pauls-catechism-_grantham-thomas-baptis_1687\">St. Paul&#8217;s Catechism<br><\/a>By Thomas Grantham (1687)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=yale.39002053187432;view=2up;seq=8\" target=\"_blank\">A Short History of the Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By Henry Clay Vedder (1907)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=chi.19446254;view=2up;seq=12\" target=\"_blank\">The Story of the English Baptists<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By John C. Carlile (1905)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=wu.89067955005;view=2up;seq=4\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish Baptists in America<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By J. O. Backlund (1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/baptiststudiesonline.com\/baptist-histories\/ashplund-universal-register-1794\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Universal Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America<\/a>&nbsp;<br>By John Asplund (1794)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/worksofjamesarmi02armi\">The Works of James Arminius in Three Volumes<\/a>&nbsp; | &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=KRO-rAOkcjYC&amp;dq=works%20of%20james%20arminius&amp;pg=PR1#v=onepage&amp;q=works%20of%20james%20arminius&amp;f=false\">Low Resolution Version<\/a><br>Volumes 1-2 translated from the Latin by James Nichols; Volume 3, which contains a brief summary of the life of Arminius, by W.R.B. Agnall, A.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cu31924092458995\">The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ&#8217;s College (Vol. 1)<\/a><br>By Smyth, John, d. 1612; Whitley, William Thomas, 1861-1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cu31924092454457\">The Works of John Smyth, Fellow of Christ&#8217;s College (Vol. 2)<\/a><br>By Smyth, John, d. 1612; Whitley, William Thomas, 1861-1947<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Note:&nbsp;These historical documents may or may not represent the current position of Free Will Baptists on any given issue. Many files are Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files. They are quite large and may take a long time to download. For ease of viewing, download only the files in which you are interested and read them at your leisure. Authentic Details of the Valdenses&nbsp;(1825) The Baptist Denomination: Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances&nbsp;By D. C. Haynes (1856) Baptists and the American Revolution&nbsp;By William Cathcart (1876) The Baptists in America; A Narrative of the Deputation from the Baptist Union in England to the United States and Canada&nbsp;By F. A. Cox and J. Hoby (1836) Benoni Stinson and the General BaptistsBy A.D. Williams The Book of ReligionsBy John Hayward A Brief History of the Liberal Baptist People in England and AmericaBy Elders G.W. Million and G.A. Barrett Christianismus Primitivus low resolution | high resolutionBy Thomas Grantham(Read more about Thomas Grantham and his defining work.) A Concise History of the Kehukee Baptist AssociationBy Elders Lemuel Burkitt and Jesse Read The Centennial Record of Free Will Baptists&nbsp;(1881) The Free Will Baptist Story&nbsp;By Damon C. Dodd (1957) General Baptist History&nbsp;By D. B. Montgomery (1882) George Fox, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-640","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/640\/revisions\/4063"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}