“British Baptist political theology: From Thomas Helwys to Andrew Fuller”[1]

Introduction

During the first few years of the American War of Independence, John Sutcliff (1752–1814), fresh from his studies at the Bristol Baptist Academy and ministering in a struggling Baptist cause at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, received a number of letters of encouragement and advice from James Turner (d.1780), the pastor of Cannon Street Baptist Chur…