7 Volume Set - Free Will Baptist Heritage Series History Theology Freewill RARE

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7 Volume Set - Free Will Baptist Heritage Series History Theology Freewill RARE
  • Incredible and scarce 7 volume set of the Free Will Baptist Heritage Series published by the Home Mission. 

  • Mostly reprints of long out of print titles relating to the denomination. Titles in this set include:

  1. The Centennial Record of Freewill Baptists 1780-1880 originally published in 1880 in Dover, New Hampshire.
  2. Life, Experience and Travels of John Colby Preacher of the Gospel Written by Himself , originally published in Dover, New Hampshire in 1854
  3. The History of Freewill Baptists for Half a Century from 1780-1830 originally published in Dover, New Hampshire in 1862
  4. Memoirs of the Life of David Marks, Minister of the Gospel , published in Dover New Hampshire in 1847
  5. History of the General or Six Principle Baptists in Europe and North America , originally published in Providence, Rhode Island in 1827
  6. Life and Labors of Rev. Ranson Dunn 1818-1900 by his daughter Helen Dunn Gates, originally published in 1901 in Boston. 
  7. Up From the Ashes by Steven Hasty, Based on the True Story of How Free Will Baptists Survived Their 1911 Apocalypse
  • Hardcover, faux leather binding, each book is about 250-300 pages in length, not dated. Tight and square bindings. Clean pages with no readily visible underlining or writing.

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Free Will Baptists or Free Baptists are a group of General Baptist denominations of Christianity that teach free grace, free salvation and free will. The movement can be traced back to the 1600s with the development of General Baptism in England. Its formal establishment is widely linked to the English theologian, Thomas Helwys.

 

In 1702 Paul Palmer would go on to establish the movement in North Carolina and in 1727 formed the Free Will Baptist Church of Chowan. Many Calvinists became Free Will Baptists in the 19th century. With the establishment of Free Will Baptists in the South, Benjamin Randall developed the movement in the Northeastern United States, specifically Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

 

From their beginning, Free Will Baptists, in common with many groups of English Dissenters and Separatists from the Church of England, followed Brownist notions of self-governance of local churches. The notion of free will was a systematic rejection of the Puritan movement, due to its overall religious beliefs and lack of social mobility.

 

Free Will Baptists can be traced to General Baptists from England who settled in the American colonies in the late 17th century. The first Baptists, who originated with the ministry of Thomas Helwys near London in 1611, were General Baptists. That is, they believed that the atonement of Jesus Christ was "general" (for all) rather than "particular" (only for the elect). It shares a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian doctrine.

 

Benjamin Laker was an English Baptist who arrived in colonial Carolina as early as 1685. Laker had been associated with Thomas Grantham, a prominent General Baptist theologian and writer, and had signed the 1663 edition of the General Baptists' Standard Confession of Faith. The earliest Free Will Baptists in America developed from English General Baptists in Carolina, who were dubbed "Freewillers" by their enemies and later assumed the name.

 

Two distinct branches of Free Will Baptists developed in America. The first and earliest was the General Baptist movement described above, known as the Palmer movement in North Carolina, from which the majority of modern-day Free Will Baptists have their origin. The later movement was the Randall movement, which arose in the late 18th century in New Hampshire. These two groups developed independently of each other.

 

In 1702, a disorganized group of General Baptists in Carolina wrote a request for help to the General Baptist Association in England. Though no help was forthcoming, Paul Palmer, whose wife Johanna was the stepdaughter of Benjamin Laker, would labor among these people 25 years later, founding the first "Free Will" Baptist church in Chowan, North Carolina in 1727.

 

Leadership would descend to Joseph Parker, William Parker, Josiah Hart, William Sojourner and others. Joseph Parker was part of the organization of the Chowan church and ministered among the Carolina churches for over 60 years. From one church in 1727, they grew to over 20 churches by 1755. After 1755, missionary labors conducted by the Philadelphia Baptist Association converted most of these churches to the Particular Baptist positions of unconditional election and limited atonement. This would later be referred to as the "Palmer line of Free Will Baptists". The churches in the Palmer line organized various associations and conferences, and finally organized a General Conference in 1921. Many Baptists from Calvinistic Baptist backgrounds, primarily Separate Baptists, became Free Will Baptists in the 19th century.

 

While the movement in the South was struggling, a new movement rose in the North through the work of Benjamin Randall (1749–1808). Randall initially united with the Particular Baptists in 1776, but broke with them in 1779 due to their strict views on predestination. In 1780, Randall formed a "Free" or "Freewill" (Randall would combine the words "free" and "will" into a single word) Baptist church in New Durham, New Hampshire. By 1782 twelve churches had been founded, and they organized a Quarterly Meeting. In 1792 a Yearly Meeting was organized.

 

The "Randall" line itself split into two groups in 1835: The "Bullockites", after founder Jeremiah Bullock (sometimes spelled "Bulloch" and "Bullochites"), which branched out to a small number of congregations in Maine and New Hampshire and The "Buzzelites", after founder John Buzzell. The Bullockites, mostly under the name "Freewill Baptists", continued in Maine into the early 20th century, while the Buzzellites disappeared shortly after their founding.

 

In 1841 Randall's Free Will Baptists merged with a similar group, the Free Communion Baptists, to form the Free Baptists. The "Randall" line of Freewill Baptists grew quickly. However, in 1911, the majority of the Randall Line churches (and all the denominational property) merged with the Northern Baptist Convention. Those churches that did not merge and remained Freewill Baptist joined with other Free Will Baptists in the Southwest and Midwest to organize the Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists in 1916.

 

Fraternal relations had existed between the Northern and Southern Free Will Baptists, but the question of slavery, and later the Civil War, prevented any formal union until the 20th century. On November 5, 1935, representatives of the General Conference (Palmer) and the Cooperative General Association (a mixture of Randall and Palmer elements west of the Mississippi) met in Nashville, Tennessee, to unite and organize the National Association of Free Will Baptists. The majority of Free Will Baptist churches organized under this umbrella, which remains the largest of the Free Will Baptist groups to this day.

 

Free Will Baptists observe at least three ordinances: baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the Washing of the Saints' Feet, a rite occurring among some other evangelical groups but not practiced by the majority of Baptist denominations. Congregations hold differing views on eschatology, with some holding premillennial and others amillennial views. Churches advocate (voluntary) tithing, totally abstaining from alcoholic beverages, and not working on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath.

 

The National Association of Free Will Baptists is the largest of the Free Will Baptist groups. Other major Free Will Baptist groups include: Original Free Will Baptist Convention, United American Free Will Baptist Church (the largest body of African-American Free Will Baptist churches, organized in 1901 and headquartered in Kinston, North Carolina), United American Free Will Baptist Conference, Old Original Free Will Baptist Conference, Evangelical Free Baptist Church, and Unaffiliated Free Will Baptist local associations.

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  • Language: English
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