Baptist Church

AW , member of a Baptist congregation, became a prophet in the 1670s. She addressed warnings of the wrath of God to the king and the Lord Mayor of London, and published two prophecies of...

She was or became a fervent Anabaptist, the sect from which the Baptists of today descend. But for twenty years, she later wrote, though she had a high opinion of her own religious state, she...

AW was also becoming dissatisfied not only with her husband but also with the proceedings of the Baptist community to which they both belonged. (This was the Baptist church of Stoke Newington, which was...

Again, AW comes straight to the point: her persecutions at the hands of her hard-hearted Yoak-Fellow and of eminent Baptists are, she says, well known to Christians and even to her enemies around the city...

This seems to be the testimony that AW had promised in her earlier printed works. It repeats her history of personal and theological controversy, and likens her Baptist opponents to Papists.

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

She was originally a Baptist and was converted to Quakerism by James Nayler . She remained loyal to Nayler, even after he was disgraced and condemned by George Fox . RT organised the first women's...

She experienced a spiritual awakening after hearing a sermon by Hugh Peter when she was about nineteen, then in 1650 joined the Baptist congregation of John Simpson . Later she moved to the sect of...

As an adult HS abandoned her mother 's strict Methodism and became an incurable sermon-taster. She favoured several denominations at the extreme of Protestantism. During the twelve-year period recorded in her Log Books only three...

While living in Silchar, she studied Christianity under the Baptist missionary Isaac Allen , much to her husband's disapproval. As a widow she carried these studies further.

Her maternal grandfather, J. C. Woodhill , was a retired jeweller, a Baptist elder, and a man of literary interests who possessed an extensive and eclectic library: a great book-lover in his retirement He...

She was baptised into the Church of England but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist chapels. CN later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of...

CMC was a white middle-class American (of Irish, French Huguenot, and British descent), who grew up attending the Baptist church and was baptised into it when she was nine. She began in childhood to...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

FK grew up English, but was the daughter of an immigrant originally from Germany, and may have had a French grandmother, wife of the grandfather who had been born at Stettin in 1813. Her surname...