1857 J. R. GRAVES. Trials and Sufferings for Baptist Religious Liberty in New England. RARE Reformation self and world destroying nature

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1857 J. R. GRAVES. Trials and Sufferings for Baptist Religious Liberty in New England. RARE Reformation self and world destroying natureVery rare work on early Baptists in America by Southern Baptist firebrand and controversialist, J. R. [James Robinson] Graves [1820 1893]. After briefly recounting the history of Baptists from the book of Acts through the early 17th century, he gets to his point, i. e. that Baptists have always existed in America, even prior to Roger Williams and the church at Providence [1638], and that they have always been persecuted and champions of true religious