A Noble Company: Biographical Essays on Notable Particular Regular Baptists in America - Volume I

Edited by Terry Wolever


Volume One of this long-awaited companion series to The British Particular Baptists is now available, featuring a collection of original essays on important Baptist figures in seventeenth and eighteenth-century America. In this first volume, some of the better-known pioneers such as John Clarke, Elias Keach and William Screven (who planted the first Baptist church in the South at Charleston, SC) are re-introduced to the reader, while others, like Obadiah Holmes—who suffered a public whipping for his faith and Penelope Stout, who endured both shipwreck and personal injury on her arrival to America, are given more detailed treatment. The reader will also become acquainted with other lesser-known personalities like John Cooke, a Mayflower passenger, John Myles and Thomas Goold, who together planted Baptist principles in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Plymouth Plantation amidst great adversity.

This volume contains valuable appendixes, including the first-time publication of a letter from Pardon Tillinghast and Aaron Davis to Obadiah Holmes discussing ecclesiological issues of significance to these seventeenth-century Baptists. 15 Baptist figures in all are covered in this first volume as well as two other important contributors who aided the cause of Baptist principles during this period. This is truly a collectible book for the student of Baptist history, or others who simply wish to know more about the origins of the Baptist faith in America.

Cloth-bound in navy vellum with gold stamping on the spine and front cover. 456 pages. Illustrated. Full index of persons, subjects and churches.


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