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A note concerning the text, editions, and authorship of the 1660 Standard Confession of the General Baptists

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23/02/2016
Author
Holmes, Stephen Ralph
Keywords
General Baptists
Matthew Caffyn
Joseph Wright
John Parsons
Confessional documents
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The, hitherto anonymous, Confession prepared by a General Baptist assembly in London in 1660 became the ‘Standard Confession’ of the denomination following its adoption at the General Assembly of 1663; re-issued by Thomas Grantham in 1678, and re-affirmed repeatedly by the General Assembly through the 1690s, it is unquestionably the most significant symbolic document of the English General Baptists. I argue on the basis of textual evidence that the standard editorial history is wrong: there were two editions in 1660, but no new edition in 1663. I further argue that there is good reason to assume that the authors of the Confession were Matthew Caffyn, Joseph Wright, and John Parsons, senior.
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Holmes , S R 2016 , ' A note concerning the text, editions, and authorship of the 1660 Standard Confession of the General Baptists ' , Baptist Quarterly , vol. 47 , no. 1 , pp. 2-7 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064
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Baptist Quarterly
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064
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Journal article
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© The Baptist Historical Society 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11533

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