ABSTRACT
Collingham consists of two villages, North and South, some five miles north of Newark in Nottinghamshire. The Baptist church there, dating from the seventeenth century, had originally been General, but in the late eighteenth century it became Particular. The New Connexion of General Baptists, which had been established in 1770, was dominated by its founder, Dan Taylor, until his death. In the early years of the nineteenth century they gradually emerged as a denomination, and in 1823 published a Confession of Faith. There is one God and only one true and living God. The light of nature in man proves the being of God. All nations acknowledge a God, or gods. Natural conscience, accusing or else excusing, proves the being of God, and man's responsibility to him for his actions. Evangelicalism was the common creed of the vast majority of Nonconformists, and in the mid-nineteenth century it was shared with a substantial section of the Church of England.
