John Smyth's Confession by John Smyth

• Introduction
• A Short Confession of Faith in XX Articles

Introduction

John Smyth is one of the significant early Baptist leaders. This is his personal confession, never officially `published'. The original document is located in the Mennonite Archives, Amsterdam. Smyth's purpose in composing this confession seems to have been to stake out a distinct theological position in relation to both the main body of English separatists, and the continental Anabaptists with whom he had thrown in his lot.