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Subject: Re: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:30:52 EST


Sharilyn,

Regarding your post concerning whether a Huguenot could be
Baptist, why not? The original Protestants in France were Lutherans. After John
Calvin published his first Institutes Of The Christian Religion many were
convinced that he had shown the true Reformation. By the way, Particular Baptists
are Calvinistic in their theology. General Baptists are Arminian.

As to worshipping with the Episcopalians (Anglicans ) it was
not customary for them to do so. Episcopalianism was seen as "Catholic light,"
particularly "High Church" Episcopalians. "Low Church" Episcopalians are
Puritans and some Puritans are Congregationalist. The Puritans were Calvinist. ( see
the works of Puritans such as John Bunyan, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards
and John Owens) While the Anglican church has 3 Calvinist articles in it's 39
Articles it has pretty much ignored them for centuries and is totally Arminian.


In England, after the death of Elizabeth I many Huguenots left
because James I desired that their children join the "King's Church" Many adults
refused, my own Demarest ancestors included.


After 1664 The Anglican Church became the official church of New
York. A tax was passed to be paid by all the residents of the city. This tax
was to be paid by all residents no matter what church they already belonged to.
Many Huguenots left for New Jersey at that time as they did not desire to live
so closely to English rule.

The Huguenot Church in New York City was Reformed but changed over
to Anglican because most of the members were social climbers. Men like De
Lancey soon became more English than the English. Witness Oliver De Lancey's Green
Coat Militia burning the barns of their cousin's in the American Revolution.
Another factor was the 1000 pound conversion fee paid to the church to convert
over.


Robert Demarest Cuminale

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