Note 227 — Chapter X
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Helwisse, (or Helwys), the author of this document, was at the time living in Holland. Soon afterwards, Crosby tells us he and his Church left Amsterdam, and removed to London.—History of English Baptists, i. 272. They are believed to have constituted the first Arminian or general Baptist Church in England.—Evan's Early English Baptists, i. 225. These persons do not appear to have regarded immersion as the proper and only mode of administering the ordinance. Robinson's Works, iii. 461. Two sorts of Baptists are alluded to in the Mercurius Rusticus, the Aspersi and the Immersi.—Evans, ii. 53.