1641 EDWARD BARBER. A Small Treatise on Baptism. Rare Baptist. Imprisoned for Faith! Biography The Two Creations Illustrated from

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1641 EDWARD BARBER. A Small Treatise on Baptism. Rare Baptist. Imprisoned for Faith! Biography The Two Creations Illustrated fromAn 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