{"id":44,"date":"2013-02-11T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:03:08","slug":"baptists-and-the-pilgrims-were-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/baptists-and-the-pilgrims-were-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptists and the Pilgrims Were &#8220;Related&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early 17th century England, the \u201cNon-Conformists\u201d of Scrooby and Gainsborough met together; the towns are separated by only about 13 miles. Partly because of persecution, the two groups eventually met separately. In 1608, the Gainsborough dissenters left for the Netherlands to avoid the continual harassment by English officials\u2026their goal was to discern the Lord\u2019s will in their lives. Many left family in England since they planned to return. A short time later, the Scrooby dissenters joined their \u201cbrothers and sisters\u201d in the Netherlands. Having come to different views on a number of issues, including <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">baptism<\/span><\/strong>, the Scrooby group, led by John Robinson, eventually moved on to Leiden, leaving the Gainsborough believers in Amsterdam led by Thomas Helwys. John Robinson and his followers became the Pilgrims. Thomas Helwys and some 11 or 12 of his followers returned to England and started what was arguably the first Baptist church&#8211;<em>Ye Baptist Church in Spitalfield<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 17th century England, the \u201cNon-Conformists\u201d of Scrooby and Gainsborough met together; the towns are separated by only about 13 miles. Partly because of persecution, the two groups eventually met separately. In 1608, the Gainsborough dissenters left for the Netherlands to avoid the continual harassment by English officials\u2026their goal was to discern the Lord\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/11\/baptists-and-the-pilgrims-were-related\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baptists and the Pilgrims Were &#8220;Related&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1608thebrethren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}