The Early Baptists of Philadelphia

the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. BARBADOES STOREHOUSE. Beginning with April, 1695, Rev. John Watts, pastor of the church at Lower Dublin, preached twice a month in the city of Philadelphia, in the Barbadoes storehouse, situated at the northwest corner of Second and Chestnut streets. The Presbyterians occupied this structure conjointly with the Baptists. The Presbyterians, however, were first to settle a pastor, the Rev. Jedediah Andrews, of New England. Coming from that part of our-country where the Baptists were most bitterly persecuted, his love for them was not strong; hence he inaugurated measures to drive them out of the building they had occupied, in connection with the Presbyterians, for over three years. Volume i, No. 13. BAPTISTS AND PRESBYTERIANS. 33 In view of this conduct, the Baptists wrote to them the following courteous and Christian letter:? To our dear and well beloved friends and brethren?Mr. Jedediah Andrews, John Green, Joshua Story and Samuel Richardson, and the rest of the Presbyterian judgment, belonging to the meeting in Philadelphia?the Church of Christ, baptized on confession of faith, over which Rev. John Watts is pastor, send salutation of grace, mercy and peace, from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ:? Dearly Beloved: Having seriously and in the fear of God considered our duties of love to and bearing with one another, and receiving the weak in faith ; and knowing that love, peace and unity tend much...