Six-Principle Baptist

noun

: a member of a Baptist denomination organized in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1653 and distinguished generally by the acceptance of six foundational principles of repentance, baptism, faith, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment drawn from Hebrews 6:1–2

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