Strict Baptists (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Gosden, J.H. What Gospel Standard Baptists believe, 1993: p. v (Strict Baptist ministers and churches; a body of Strict Baptist churches began to gather around the Gospel Standard)

Dix, K. Strict and particular: English Strict and Particular Baptists in the nineteenth century, c2001.

The new international dictionary of the Christian Church, c1978 (Strict Baptists, a group of Baptist churches, generally Calvinist in theology, which denies that saving faith is the duty of unbelievers. Strict Baptists withdrew their support on theological grounds, from the Baptist Missionary Society, and founded in 1861 the Strict Baptist Mission)

Strict Baptist Historical Society WWW Site, 2 June 2003 (The Strict Baptists or, to use the name by which they have often been known, the Strict and Particular Baptists, are a group of evangelical churches found mostly in England. Rooted in the older Particular Baptist tradition, they emerged as a distinct body early in the 19th century, because of their opposition to the idea that it is the duty of every person to repent and believe the gospel. The term Strict refers to their practice of restricted communion. Particular refers to the belief of these Christians in particular redemption.)

Strict and Particular Baptists WWW Site, 2 June 2003 (The Strict and Patricular Baptists are, first and foremost, Christians who have a long and orthodox history)