https://www.gotquestions.org/Particular-Baptists.html
Themelios "Origins of the Particular Baptists
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/origins-of-the-particular-baptists/
The Theologian "The Rise and Development of the English Baptists"
http://www.theologian.org.uk/churchhistory/englishbaptists.html
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
Hercules Collins, author of An Orthodox Catechism, a Baptist revision of the Heidelberg Catechism, 1680
https://1689.com/an-orthodox-catechism/
“The Life and Ministry of Hercules Collins”
https://www.evangelical-times.org/a-cloud-of-witnesses-14/
Some Reasons for Separation from the Communion of the Church of England, and the Unreasonableness of Persecution upon that Account, 1682
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5PJbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA2&hl=en
“None should be compelled to worship God by a temporal Sword, but such as come willingly, and none can worship God to acceptance but such.”
The Temple Repair'd: Or, an Essay to Revive the Long-neglected Ordinances, of Exercising the Spiritual Gift of Prophecy for the Edification of the Churches ... With Proper Directions as to Study and Preaching, for Such as are Inclin'd to the Ministry, 1702
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-temple-repaird-or-_collins-hercules_1702
“Patiently to Suffer for Christ’s Sake”: Hercules Collins as an Exemplar of Baptists During the Great Persecution”
Between 1661 and 1665 Parliament passed a series of laws known as the Clarendon Code which were designed to enforce conformity to the worship of the Church of England:
The Corporation Act of 1661 required that a person had to have received the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper in the Church of England within the past year to be eligible for election to any government office. Eligible persons were also required to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the king of England.
The Act of Uniformity of 1662 resulted in the ejection of approximately two thousand Puritan ministers from their pulpits since it required complete subscription to The Book of Common Prayer. Most Puritan ministers resigned rather than conform to these demands.
The Conventicle Act of 1664 forbade the assembling of five or more persons for religious worship other than in the Church of England. This, in essence, outlawed dissenting churches.
The Five-Mile Act of 1665 forbade any nonconforming preacher or teacher to come within five miles of a city where he had previously served as a minister or any incorporated town.
Several well-known London Puritan ministers were arrested in the weeks following the passage of the second Conventicle Act including Thomas Manton, Richard Baxter, John Owen and Thomas Goodwin, along with Particular Baptists such as William Kiffin, Hanserd Knollys, and Edward Harrison.
Tobias Wells, Richard Blunt, and Hercules Collins were arrested and imprisoned in June of 1670, for assembling unlawfully “at a conventicle & other misdemeanours.”
In May 1683, Collins was indicted for his failure to attend the local parish church and imprisoned again, until August 1684.
During that time he published two works:
A Voice from the Prison. Or, Meditations on Revelations III.XI. Tending To the Establishment of Gods Little Flock, In an Hour of Temptation
and
Counsel for the Living, Occasioned from the Dead: Or, A Discourse on Job III. 17,18.
Actions are more Influential then words, and more Demonstrative of the Truth and Reality of a Person or Cause…as a man shall be better believed for his good works, then good words.”
If we would Manifest our Integrity under a Profession, nothing will do it better than your Suffering. . . if by God called unto it; for, as a Tree is known by his fruit, so is a Christian by a Patient Wearing Christs Cross, this will and hath Convinced an Adversary, when a bare Profession will not.