1641 EDWARD BARBER. A Small Treatise on Baptism. Rare Baptist. Imprisoned for Faith! Biography as the Baptists finally began

as the Baptists finally began to emerge from persecution as part of the "independent" protestant landscape in England and America

Philadelphia: printed by W

The Two Creations Illustrated from Jacob and Esau

that by God’s power I have given it up

boldly autographed at the head of title

1641 EDWARD BARBER. A Small Treatise on Baptism. Rare Baptist. Imprisoned for Faith! Biography as the Baptists finally beganAn exceptionally scarce early articulation of the Baptist faith. Barber was a tradesman who began preaching as a lay preacher against the evils of infant baptism. He was then imprisoned in 1640, and used his year in prison to study the issue further. There, like Bunyan, he penned his treatise in defense of believer's baptism. It is a very important and rare piece of Baptist history. Barber, Edward. A Small Treatise of Baptisme; or, Dipping. Wherein is