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    Isaac Backus (January 9, 1724 – November 20, 1806) was a leading Baptist minister during the era of the American Revolution who campaigned against state-established...
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  • include: A. E. Backus (1909–1990), American artist Azel Backus (1765–1816), first President of Hamilton College in New York Billy Backus (born 1943), former...
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  • England pastor and congregation was Isaac Backus (1724–1808) and the church at Middleborough, Massachusetts. Backus was raised a Congregationalist and...
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    and its influence (or lack of influence) on Isaac Backus (1724–1806). The focus was on Edwards's and Backus's ideas about Liberty and Freedom from the perspective...
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    Hampshire, as well as north central Massachusetts and Vermont. In 1782, Isaac Backus read to Case a letter from a former parishioner who was currently living...
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  • (Reformed/Particular Baptist) John Gill (1697–1771) (Reformed/Particular Baptist) Isaac Backus (1724–1806) Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) Robert Hall (1764–1831) William...
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  • English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley Isaac Backus (1724–1806), advocate of the separation of church and state Henry Venn...
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    Baptist commitment to religious liberty represented by such figures as Isaac Backus, John Leland, and Jeremiah Moore, over against those who would articulate...
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    support of any established church even at the state level. In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, observed that when "church...
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  • was a Baptist for a short period but became a "Seeker"), John Clarke, Isaac Backus, and John Leland. In 1612 John Smyth wrote, "the magistrate is not by...
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  • Franklin without direct association with any particular denomination. Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural trustee of...
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  • Parker to Isaac Backus. "Dear Sr. I send you here inclosed a letter I received from Isaac Holden ...", letter, Harvard, 28 June 1784. Isaac Backus Collection...
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  • support of any established church even at the state level. In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, wrote against a state-sanctioned...
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    project started in February 2019 and was completed in the spring of 2021. Isaac Backus, Baptist pastor and founding father during American Revolution Joseph...
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  • first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States Isaac Backus, a Baptist preacher Nathaniel Bartlett, pastor of the Congregational...
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  • Viva is a Peruvian brand of soft drink owned by Backus and Johnston and sold in Perú. Viva is a rival product to Inca Kola sharing the same characteristics...
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  • the language of Jonathan Edwards and Isaac Backus (1724-1806) and provides a comparison of Edwards's and Backus's ideas concerning Liberty and Freedom...
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    mother of Benedict Arnold Isaac Backus (1724–1806), a delegate to the First Continental Congress, born in the city Isaac H. Bromley (1833–1899), born...
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  • leading Baptist ministers the Reverend James Manning, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, the Reverend Morgan Edwards and the Reverend...
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    Episcopalians had the College of William and Mary and King's College. Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural Trustee of...
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  • 1959) Billy Graham, Revivalist in a Secular Age. (Ronald Press, 1960) Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition. (Little, Brown, 1967) Meaning of...
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  • taxation, not from Parliament, but from the Massachusetts authorities. Isaac Backus, A History of New England with Particular Reference to the Baptists (New...
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  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1764, Edwards joined James Manning, Ezra Stiles, Isaac Backus, John Gano, Samuel Stillman, William Ellery, and former Royal Governors...
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    church, and the churchless paid to the Congregationalists. Baptist leader Isaac Backus vigorously fought these provisions, arguing people should have freedom...
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    Joseph Grafton Orders Ordination June 18, 1788 by Isaac Backus and Samuel Stillman Personal details Born June 9, 1757 Newport, Colony of Rhode Island Died...
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    of the sin Sloth. Christian author and Clinical Psychologist Dr. William Backus has pointed out the similarities between sloth and depression. "Depression...
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    enforceable against dissenting Christians, such as Connecticut Baptist Isaac Backus. Following the Great Awakening, Connecticut Old and New Lights underwent...
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    of Andrew Fuller (1830) Sketches of George Leonard, Abraham Booth and Isaac Backus (1832) History of Waterville College (1836) Tales of Truth for the Young...
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    association letters written by the Reverend Parker and others are in the Isaac Backus Collection at the Andover Newton Theological School. Statistical information...
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    joined the Reverend James Manning, the Reverend Ezra Stiles, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Morgan Edwards, William Ellery...
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