Meanings
plural Particular Baptists
- historicalA member of an English Baptist sect arising in the seventeenth century which believed in particular redemption.First known use 18th c.
From the early 1650s there was a rapid expansion of Particular Baptists in Wales and of Quakers all over the North of England.
1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 561 more example
By particular Baptists, I suppose to be chiefly intended, those that hold the doctrines of personal election, and of the final perseverance of the Saints, according to the calvinistical notion of them.
1740, Thomas Crosby, The History of the English Baptists
Synonyms & antonyms
noungroup of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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