“The King is Pleas’d to Sit with Us, at His Table”: Particular Baptists and the Lord’s Supper, 1640s–1740s
Calvin’s position was rejected by the Lutherans, but it turned out to be an enormously influential one among the Anglophone heirs of the Reformation: it was followed by the English and American Puritans and such eighteenth-century Evangelicals as Jonathan Edwards (1703‒1758) and Charles Wesley (1707‒1788). And it was the position of the Particular (Calvinistic) Baptists throughout the seventeenth and much of the eighteenth centuries.
