Particular Baptist

English

Noun

Particular Baptist (plural Particular Baptists)

1. (historical) A member of an English Baptist sect arising in the seventeenth century which believed in particular redemption. [from 18th c.]
   • 1740, Thomas Crosby, The History of the English Baptists:

     By particular Baptists, I suppose to be chiefly intended, those that hold the doctrines of personal election, and of the final perseverance of the Saints, according to the calvinistical notion of them.

   • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 56:

     From the early 1650s there was a rapid expansion of Particular Baptists in Wales and of Quakers all over the North of England.