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<\/a>  \u00b7 Thomas Gould (1619-1675) Pastor of the First Baptist Church in BostonThe battle for religious liberty took work in Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Baptists were already persecuted for their beliefs for the two most offensive beliefs to the Puritans: believer’s baptism by immersion and the freedom of the conscience to worship as they pleased. The civil government had worked hand in hand with the Puritan\/Congregational church to ensure that everyone stayed within their confines and belief system. Any opposition to that idea was viewed as a threat and a danger to the civility of the colony. They thus denied freedom of worship to any group besides themselves because of their dominant influence. [[G1]<\/a>[G2]<\/a>[G3]<\/a>[G4]<\/a>[G5]<\/a>Some persevered for truth as they believed, however. When Obadiah Holmes was beaten for propagating his faith, it impacted the first president of Harvard College: Henry Dunster, who sided with the anti-pedobaptist, as they were called. [[i]<\/a>So the Baptists had a strong ally in their cause.Another pioneer of the early Baptists in Boston was Thomas Gould, who became the pastor of the first Baptist church formed in Boston. He made a statement initially by refusing to have his children baptized in the Congregational Church at Charlestown, Massachusetts. [[ii]<\/a> Gould was a farmer and wagon maker, but his strong disagreement with the church launched him into action. He also absented himself from the meetings at the Charlestown church in 1655. [[iii]<\/a> A disagreement in the Cambridge Church had taken place, and those who were disillusioned with the church’s actions and doctrine began meeting with Gould in his home. [[iv]<\/a> Gould drafted a statement of faith declaring their association with the Baptist faith and began meeting in secret on Noodles Island. The congregation borrowed from early Baptist confessions of faith, primarily the London Baptist Confession of 1642 and others with a distinct Calvinist flavor. For these actions, Gould was arrested and imprisoned by the authorities. However, he was released, and the congregation was allowed to meet as a Baptist church in Boston. [[G6]<\/a>[v]<\/a>[G7]<\/a>[G8]<\/a>[G9]<\/a>[G10]<\/a>Gould was not a fly-by-night fellow. He was one of the dozen wealthiest men in all of Boston and was friends with the Winthrop family. [[vi]<\/a>All of these factors may have persuaded the civil government to allow the Baptist church relatively new-found freedom. For whatever reason, freedom was granted, and the providence of God was in the issuance of it.[G11]<\/a>The Baptists had a limited reputation as scholars. Cotton Mather, famous early pastor and soon-to-be president of Harvard, accused Baptists of being like Jeroboam, \u201cmaking the lowest of people their priests.”[vii]<\/a>Gould was definitely a contradiction to Mather’s misguided observation.The early Baptists worshipped on the first day of the week, and though they were permitted to worship publicly, they continued to meet in homes as well. They seemed to partake of the Lord\u2019s Supper every Sunday. [[viii]<\/a>The Baptists were still looked on as outcasts and railed against forming their own church and the legitimate authority of the church and state. Baptists believed they were just following what they felt the Lord wanted them to do, \u201cworshipping according to their own appointments.\u201d [[ix]<\/a>They wished to worship the Lord without enforced opposition and with the spirit of freedom. Their courage was commendable, and their willingness to suffer reproach for the cause of Christ through the dictates of their own conscience was what drove them. They wanted to worship the Lord in purity and practice for what they believed to be the correct form of baptism that had been handed down to them by the Lord Jesus Christ. [[x]<\/a>Interestingly, the First Baptist Church of Boston still exists today. At the same time, the mother church of the Puritans: The First Church of Boston, is a Unitarian church, so far removed from the early Puritan’s belief it is unrecognizable. [[xi]<\/a>Maybe there is something to Christ’s promise of the gates of Hell not prevailing against His church girded with the truth of doctrine and practice. Forced conformity to church and freedom denied to those worshipping God in the church aligned with the truth will never work. It especially did not work in a place where people came to worship God without the governmental suppression they had experienced in England.May God give us the same type of tenacity in standing for religious freedom and not compromising our convictions. Gould’s plight is a wonderful story of courage and conviction.Thomas Gould stepped forward, risking his reputation, and good name, and risked a danger involved in opposing those whose beliefs were not like his. God honored his faith and the growth of the Baptist Movement in America. His recognized achievements in his leadership are a tribute to such a pioneer of faith in the New World and the churches who followed him in this noble venture.Endnotes[i] William H. Brackney, A Genetic history of Baptist thought: with special reference to Baptists in Britain and North America<\/em> (Mercer University Press, 2004), 208-212.[ii]<\/a> Walter B. Shurden John Russel, “A Brief Narrative…of a Church of Christ in Gospel Order in Boston”.(Retrieved April 10, 2018), http:\/\/www.centerforbaptiststudies.org\/…\/briefnarrative…<\/a>.[iii]<\/a> Brackney, 208.[iv]<\/a> Ibid, 208-2012.[v]<\/a> Ibid, 208-2012.[vi]<\/a> Walter B. Shorten John Russel, “A Brief Narrative…of a Church of Christ in Gospel Order in Boston”(Retrieved April 10, 2018), http:\/\/www.centerforbaptiststudies.org\/…\/briefnarrative…<\/a>.[vii]<\/a> Ibid[viii]<\/a> Brackney, 208-212.[ix]<\/a> Ibid[x]<\/a> Ibid[xi]<\/a> This statement is Based on the author’s accessing the First Church of Boston, which denied most tenets of orthodox Christianity under the name of freedom to believe whatever they want to believe: http:\/\/www.firstchurchboston.org\/about\/history<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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