THE BAPTISTS

AND

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

BY

WILLIAM CATHCART, D.D.,

C O N T E N T S.

INTRODUCTION.

Men of every creed aided the Revolution?William Pitt?John Ryland?Dr. Rippon?British Baptist

JUST BEFORE THE REVOLUTION THE BAPTISTS GAVE THE COLONISTS OF AMERICA AN IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO WICKED LAWS.

Anglo-Saxon reverence for law?Baptists suffer and disobey the laws?Deputy-Governor Dudley and toleration?John Wailer, Lewis Craig, and James Childs in prison for preaching?They preach in jail?in Middlesex and Caroline Counties ministers in jail?William Webber and Joseph Anthony in prison?Archibald Cary the persecutor?James Ireland persecuted?Drums and ridicule?In Massachusetts men and women arrested?The Sturbridge seizure?Oppression in creases towards the Revolution

RHODE ISLAND IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF OUR BAPTIST FATHERS TO LIBERTY AND THE REVOLUTION.

Number of Baptists in it?Soul liberty?Its Committee of Correspondence?Its Revolution?Its patriotism?A British opinion?Governor Green?Freest colony in America?Mompesson?Bancroft?Arnold?Aid in the war

THE BAPTISTS WERE AMONG THE FIRST RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AS A LEGITIMATE BODY.

First Congress?The Warren and Philadelphia Associations?James II.?William Kiffin?John Bunyan?English Baptists of 1689?The Congress recognized

THE BAPTISTS AS A PEOPLE WERE ENTHUSIASTIC ADVOCATES OF THE REVOLUTION.

The denomination full of ardor for liberty?The General Association of Virginia?Brocmail?Jeremiah Walker?John Williams?Elder M?Clanahan?Charles Thompson?Dr. Hezekiah Smith?Dr. Rogers?David Jones?John Gano?Dr. Mantling?David Barrow?Daniel Marshall?Oliver Hart?Dr. Stillman?John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence?Colonel Joab Houghton?John Brown of Rhode Island?Baptists in the army?Baptist influence in Delaware?Philadelphia Association and Yorktown?Baptists too patriotic

 

 

 

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