Thursday, August 19, 2010

Google Books and Early Baptist Literature

Baptists are about to run out of excuses for being uninformed about the beliefs of the earliest Baptists. Books long out-of-print and inaccessible are now available for download by Google Books. Books can be downloaded free of charge in adobe acrobat (PDF) format or in EPUB format for anyone who has access to a computer.

Here are some of the classic texts of early Baptists that are available:

The True Story of John Smyth, the Se-Baptist: as told by himself and his Contemporaries by Henry Martin Dexter (1881)

The Early English Dissenters in the Light of Recent Research (1550-1641) Vol. 1 by Champlin Burrage (1912)

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience by Roger Williams (1644)

An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty Against the Oppressions of the Present Day by Isaac Backus (1773)

A History of New-England with Particular Reference to Baptists Vol. 1 by Isaac Backus (1777)

Church History of New England from 1620-1804 by Isaac Backus (1844)

The Writings of the Late Elder John Leland (1845)

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