From Methodist To General Baptist
Dan Taylor was born in Northowram, near Halifax, Yorkshire. He was a coal-miner who joined the Wesleyan Methodists in 1761, during his early twenties. Whilst never straying from Wesley’s Arminianism, Taylor quickly tired of what he saw as Wesley’s authoritianism. By 1763, Taylor had been ordained a General Baptist and had begun organising the ‘Birchcliffe Baptists’, an independent grouping of dissenters around Hebden Bridge. The following year the Birchdale group built their own chapel. Taylor, a young man used to manual labour, quarried the stone himself.
Building the Chapel proved an expensive burden, so Taylor travelled on foot to Leicestershire in search of support. Among the independent Baptist congregations throughout the east Midlands, there was a great deal of disillusionment with the current state of the General Baptists. Traditionally non-creedal, many General Baptist congregations were becoming increasingly liberal in their doctrine, obliging the more orthodox and the more evangelical among them to reconsider their allegiance.
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