Freewill Baptist Quarterly Magazine (Volume 1-2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839. Excerpt: ... came somewhat extensively into vogue. This the brethren sometimes used officially. Hence the Quarterly Meeting of Nov. 3, 1792, "gave the brethren at Georgetown, &c. a certificate that those whose names were on a petition to the General Court of Mass. for incorporation into a religious society, are in fellowship with the Baptist Quarterly Meeting, sometimes called General Provisioners." The term, " New Durham Connection," was occasionally used. Hence a man in Vermont, June 1801, addressed a letter to the Yearly Meeting, as follows; "To the church of Christ, New Durham Connection." But, as the brethren contended strenuously that man's will is left free to choose or refuse salvation when offered to him by the gospel, they were derided with the name Freewillers. This name becoming pretty generally used, the connection finally adopted it, leaving off the ers. They used it at first in a petition for religious privileges, to the New Hampshire Legislature in 1804, when the following Resolve was obtained, viz: "In the House of Representatives, Dec. 7, 1804, Resolved, That the people in this State, commonly known by the name of Freewill Antipedo Baptist church and society, shall be considered as a distinct religious sect or denomination, with all the privileges, as such, agreeable to the Constitution." Here then the name of this people became settled, though the word Antipedo is not generally used by them. It will be noticed, that this final settlement did not take place till 24 years after the commencement of the denomination; and then necessity drove them to it. And further, party names are not what makes the great distinctions in the religious world, but the different views that have obtained. 3. Doctrine propagated by the Freewill Baptists. When the church was...