Particular Pilgrims

"There has been some debate about whether George Liele was America’s first Baptist missionary, since his going to Jamaica predated by 30 years Adoniram Judson’s voyage to the East in 1812."
Ron Miller
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"The greatest historical impact that the English Baptists had related to English slavery was surely their involvement in mission activity in Jamaica, the inevitable ethical clashes that followed, and the impact of all this on British law and the slaves’ emancipation."
Ron Miller
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Four years before Abraham Booth preached his famous sermon against English slavery, another pastor, usually classified as a Particular Baptist, Robert Robinson, preached his own widely admired sermon on the topic. In his home church in Cambridge, on Sunday, February 10, 1788, Robinson delivered a message entitled “Slavery Inconsistent with the Spirit of Christianity.”
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"The title of Booth’s sermon made his position very clear: the Bible condemned the enslavement of and commerce in human beings in the practices then collectively known as the African slave trade. He sought to prove this both from the Old and New Testaments and used Exodus 21:16 as his foundational text."Ron MillerFor more information, visit CBTSeminary.org

"One remarkable fact that strikes readers of early Baptist history is that occurrences of the term 'baptist' are scarce. There is no evidence that the first generation of the people we call 'English Particular Baptists' used it to label themselves." -Ron Miller
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