John was an English Anglican, Baptist, then Mennonite minister and a defender of the principle of religious liberty.
He attended Christ’s College, Cambridge where he became a fellow in 1594 and was ordained for ministry in the C of E the same year.
He became a Puritan preacher, then a Separatist pastor, which led to exile in Amsterdam. He became a se-baptist (baptised himself)(c,1609) and set up the first Baptist church(1612) in Britain… He believed in believer’s baptism by immersion not infant baptism.
In February 1610 he and other church members wrote to a Mennonite community in Waterland to join their movement. The group earned the name General Baptists because they claimed that Christ died for all men rather than for the elect only.
See notes also on Mennonites.
The Hodder & Stoughton Book of Famous Christians
Wikipedia
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