As was only natural he confided his searchings to Ann, conceding ruefully that it certainly looked as if their own Congregationalists were wrong and the Baptists right.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Denominations leaning in the Calvinist direction are grouped as the Reformed churches and include Particular Baptists, Reformed Baptists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists.

" The charter required that the makeup of the board of 36 trustees include, 22 Baptists, five Friends, four Congregationalists, and five Church of England members, and by 12 Fellows, of whom eight, including the President, should be Baptists " and the rest indifferently of any or all denominations.

Prohibition was a major reform movement from the 1840s into the 1920s, and was sponsored by evangelical Protestant churches, especially the Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples and Congregationalists.

The Congregationalists and the Episcopalians supported the Federalists ; most of the Presbyterians, Baptists, and other minority denominations tended toward the Republican camp.

Churches also often played a role, especially the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), Congregationalists, Wesleyans, and Reformed Presbyterians as well as certain sects of mainstream denominations such as branches of the Methodist church and American Baptists.

The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period — the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.

This colony – the National Colony – was to be a village of temperance with a capital “ T ”, a place where evangelical Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists could live free of the sins of alcohol.

Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers ( founded in 1648 ), were considered Nonconformists at the time of the 1662 Act of Uniformity.

This included 60 Primitive Methodists, 48 Baptists, 40 Congregationalists and 15 Wesleyan Methodists.

As such, the Congregationalists were a reciprocal influence on the Baptists.

However, Ellery and Stiles attempted to give control of the college to the Congregationalists, but the Baptists withdrew the petition until it was rewritten to assure Baptist control.

English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists would together ( with others ) come to be known as Nonconformists, because they did not conform to the Act of Uniformity ( 1662 ) establishing the Church of England as the only legally approved church, though they were in many ways united by their common confessions, built on the Westminster Confession.

Jack ( named for John Calvin, but whom Swift also connects to " Jack of Leyden ") represents the various Dissenting Protestant churches such as Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Congregationalists, or Anabaptists.

The Act of Toleration, adopted by the British Parliament in 1689, allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation The Nonconformists were Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists and Congregationalists.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

English Dissenting churches ( Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists ) preferred to wear the gown alone with the cassock and bands at all times, most being wary of the surplice ( a remnant of the " Surplice War " cause by the reforms enacted by Archbishop William Laud, referred to as " Laudianism ".

Key doctrine of Anglican and Methodist churches, adopted by many Baptists and some Congregationalists.

* Nonconformism – Advocacy of religious liberty ; includes Quakers, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists and Salvationists.

The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period — the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

In religion, New England Yankees originally followed the Puritan tradition, as expressed in Congregational churches ; beginning in the late colonial period, however, many became Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, or, later, Unitarians.

In 1779, New Light Baptists held a spiritualistic revival in New Lebanon.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination with origins in the Schwarzenau Brethren ( ' Schwarzenau New Baptists ') that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany.

The group of Christians who organized themselves into a church at Schwarzenau, Germany in 1708 originally referred to themselves as the New Baptists ().

The most predominant denominations among residents in New Madrid County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists ( 62. 86 %), Roman Catholics ( 8. 80 %), and Methodists ( 7. 36 %).

Among Southern Baptists in the United States, Reverend is formally written but the pastor is usually orally addressed as Brother ( Brother Smith ), as New Testament writers describe Christians as being brothers and sisters in Christ.

In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London's famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark ( formerly pastored by the Particular Baptists Benjamin Keach, theologian John Gill and John Rippon ).

The area was first settled in 1666 by Quakers and Baptists who had left the Puritan colony in New Hampshire.

inclined much to talk of liberty ... It is amazing what false and erroneous opinions and ideas these people have entertained ... The religion of the people of this town consists entirely of New Light Baptists.

R. G. Spurling ( 1857 – 1935 ), a Missionary Baptist minister, and his father Richard Spurling ( 1810 – 91 ), an ordained elder, rejected some of the views of the Baptists in his area as not being in accord with New Testament Christianity.

* Bode, Frederick A., Protestantism and the New South: North Carolina Baptists and Methodists in Political Crisis.

These settlers were three men – Seventh Day Baptists – from Berlin and Brookfield, New York: Clark Crandall, Nathan Green, and Edward Green.

Charles Spurgeon ( 1834 – 1892 ), pastor to the New Park Street Chapel ( later the Metropolitan Tabernacle ) in London, has been called " by far the most famous and influential preacher the Baptists had.

Primitive Baptists trace their origins to the New Testament era, rather than to John Calvin.

Primitive Baptists consider theological seminaries to have " no warrant or sanction from the New Testament, nor in the example of Christ and the apostles.

He also has been called " one of the foremost interpreters of the New Testament among Baptists in the twentieth century.

Conservative Baptists is a name used to describe members of the Conservative Baptist Association of America ( an association formed in 1947 at Atlantic City, New Jersey ), used loosely as the larger " Conservative Baptist Movement ", or used as a description of Baptists that hold a " conservative " viewpoint of theology in contrast to " liberals ".

The Six-Principle Baptists of New England were called " General ," distinguishing that they held the general view of Christ's atonement ( making salvation possible for all men ) rather than the particular view ( that He atoned for the elect only ).

Most Old Regular Baptists can be traced back to the New Salem Association of United Baptists which originated in eastern Kentucky in 1825.