RT Article
T1 A Note Concerning the Text, Editions, and Authorship of The 1660 Standard Confession of the General Baptists
JF Baptist quarterly
VO 47
IS 1
SP 2
OP 7
A1 Holmes, Stephen R.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1571947418
AB 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.
K1 confessional documents
K1 General Baptists
K1 John Parsons
K1 Joseph Wright
K1 Matthew Caffyn
DO 10.1080/0005576X.2015.1127064