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Advocate of the reformed protestant religion
Copson, Stephen
Copson, Stephen
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"A search of English Baptist history reveals the complex network that produced the Baptist community of today. Some strands that enriched the tradition became an ecclesiastical by-path. One example is the case of the few clergymen in the 1650s and 1660s who both held a state living and the scriptural authority of believer's baptism' . Of necessity short-lived, their circumstances remind us today of the breadth of our Baptist heritage. William Kaye was such a man. His writing career spanned the turbulent period in England when government and church were in a state of flux. He wanted a secure political settlement with a reformed national church and a publicly recognized ministry reinforced by a supportive administration. He placed his hopes successively on a political treaty, a rite of initiation, sacramental reconciliation and a credal formula. A conservative, h~ was worried by the threat to good order in the state and church by radicals both political and ecclesiastical, with a constant weather-eye on the Papists. His watchword was 'the Reformed Protestant Religion' ."
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1994
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