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- noun Plural form of
Baptist .
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Although there are traces of this congregation for several years after that date, it seems to have melted away, or to have been crushed into extinction by the persecution of its members individually; so that the Baptists of whom we hear as existing in London, or dispersed through England, after the opening of the Long Parliament, appear to have been rather of the kind known as _Particular Baptists_, holding a Calvinistic theology, and generated out of the Independent congregations that had been established in London and elsewhere after Helwisse's and on different principles
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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The fact that a recent Baptist convert doesn’t think much of “communion” is quite predictable given the baptists law eucharistic theology and the infrequency with which it figures in many Baptists congregations.
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Southern baptists tend to be white and very conservative, and these are, if I’m not mistaken, both the most pervasive and the most politically influential of the Baptists.
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But the couple remain Baptists and worship at Maranatha Baptist Church when they are home in Plains, Ga.
Jimmy Carter Warns Religion And Politics Are Getting Too Cozy Josh Fleet 2010
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But the couple remain Baptists and worship at Maranatha Baptist Church when they are home in Plains, Ga.
Jimmy Carter Warns Religion And Politics Are Getting Too Cozy Josh Fleet 2010
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Among those who confuse Christianity with the founding of America, the rise of conservative Baptists is one of the more interesting developments.
Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize 2005
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Among those who confuse Christianity with the founding of America, the rise of conservative Baptists is one of the more interesting developments.
Think Progress » The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God 2005
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Among those who confuse Christianity with the founding of America, the rise of conservative Baptists is one of the more interesting developments.
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Among those who confuse Christianity with the founding of America, the rise of conservative Baptists is one of the more interesting developments.
Think Progress » Tom DeLay: Response to Katrina a “Phenomenal Accomplishment” 2005
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We have in the University Quakers from England, hard-shell Baptists from the United States, Methodist, Episcopalians also from the United States, and our own Canadian Methodists, and we are all working together.
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