Adam Taylor's History of the General Baptists of England (1818)

Seems like it might be a nice module for someone to work up and upload here. I'm not likely to have the time to do it myself. I can't find a simple clean text source, but someone who was interested in the content could probably build it from a PDF with copy-and-paste and old-fashioned proofreading.
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The history of the English General Baptists : Taylor, Adam : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Part First. English General Baptists of the seventeenth century. -- Part Second. The new connection of General Baptists
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Brandon Staggs said:
Seems like it might be a nice module for someone to work up and upload here. I'm not likely to have the time to do it myself. I can't find a simple clean text source, but someone who was interested in the content could probably build it from a PDF with copy-and-paste and old-fashioned proofreading.
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Yes, I have that document. I wish I had Word because it will change a PDF into a Word document, which saves sooo much time. But I didn't want to rent their program. I have LibreOffice, but I don't think it will do the same thing, unfortunately. I have tried. I wish archive had it as a *.txt. But perhaps I can work on it somehow. We'll see.

Edit: I did find PDF24, a free PDF program which does a lot of things, including converting PDFs to other outputs. It did not convert it to a Word doc as I hoped, but to a text doc, and that will take some work, but perhaps I can work on it over time. God blesss!
 
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Brandon Staggs said:
Seems like it might be a nice module for someone to work up and upload here. I'm not likely to have the time to do it myself. I can't find a simple clean text source, but someone who was interested in the content could probably build it from a PDF with copy-and-paste and old-fashioned proofreading.
archive.org

The history of the English General Baptists : Taylor, Adam : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Part First. English General Baptists of the seventeenth century. -- Part Second. The new connection of General Baptists
archive.org
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They do have it as text. Here "The history of the English General Baptists"
 
Brandon Staggs said:
I can't find a simple clean text source
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Pastor Langley said:
They do have it as text
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Yes, but it is anything but "clean." Someone will need to read every single line and proof it, making lots of corrections along the way. I've done this many times in the past, but I only do this for texts I am personally interested in converting.
 
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Agree with you. Did that error report or bad module help in any way?
 
Great. When you update latest version. Would the issue with the mouse cursor, disappearing be addressed?
 
If I can reproduce the issue, sure.
 
Brandon Staggs said:
Yes, but it is anything but "clean." Someone will need to read every single line and proof it, making lots of corrections along the way. I've done this many times in the past, but I only do this for texts I am personally interested in converting.
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Yeah, it will be a daunting task. The *.txt file extrapolated proves that! But doing it will allow me to read it.

According to the Word of Life Encyclopedia add in I have for SwordSearcher (shameless plug): Adam Taylor's History of the General Baptists of England (1818) deals with the history of the non-Calvinist Baptists in Great Britain, and there were a large number of them. To my knowledge, Taylor is the only 19th-century British Baptist historian who was not a Calvinist. It is certain that the vast majority of Baptist histories are written by Calvinists and they typically neglect and sometimes misreport the history and beliefs of the non-Calvinist Baptists.

It will be a good read. I will have to wait, just recovering from a heart cath, and have to do pulpit fill on Sunday, but could become a great project.
 
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Yeah, it will be a daunting task. The *.txt file extrapolated proves that! But doing it will allow me to read it.

According to the Word of Life Encyclopedia add in I have for SwordSearcher (shameless plug): Adam Taylor's History of the General Baptists of England (1818) deals with the history of the non-Calvinist Baptists in Great Britain, and there were a large number of them. To my knowledge, Taylor is the only 19th-century British Baptist historian who was not a Calvinist. It is certain that the vast majority of Baptist histories are written by Calvinists and they typically neglect and sometimes misreport the history and beliefs of the non-Calvinist Baptists.

It will be a good read. I will have to wait, just recovering from a heart cath, and have to do pulpit fill on Sunday, but could become a great project.
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Agreed, when you first mentioned the author, I thought uh oh, not KJV. But further research, might like the works of author. Do you have a better text than the one I listed? Would love to get a copy if it is better? Also when searching it shows it as 2 volume on Amazon? Do you know those details?
 
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Pastor Langley said:
Do you have a better text than the one I listed? Would love to get a copy if it is better? Also when searching it shows it as 2 volume on Amazon? Do you know those details?
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No I am working with the same document Brandon suggested. I already had that.
 
I have another when get chance will compare, it came from Google Books. Which not sure what that means...? But they are 1 and 2 volumes I did notice. If you like can send along email cannot seem to attach files in this section, even though it says "attach". Says too large.
 
Oh forgot, shared OneDrive folder. There is 8 files. each is listed and explained. If your is better please let me know I'll delete these. Give them a few moinutes to upload. Not fiber here.
 
No problem, understand sir. 🦺Safest way to be. 👮‍♀️ Avaialble 📂 (Adam Taylor Files) total files (8) here.→ Shared SwordSearcher Files
👓 Looking forward to your module. 👀
 
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