Peter Edwards

Peter Edwards, after ministering to the Baptist meeting at White’s Row, Portsea, 1785-1794, resigned and became an Independent minister. Shortly thereafter he published Candid Reasons for Renouncing the Principles of Antipaedobaptism (1795), which was answered that same year by Joseph Jenkins, at that time pastor of the Baptist church at Blandford Street, London, in A Defence of the Baptists Against the Aspersions & Misrepresentation so Mr. Peter Edwards . . . in his Book, entitled Candid Reasons, for Renouncing the Principles of Antipaedobaptism. In a Series of Letters. See “Calendar of Letters,” Baptist Quarterly 6 (1932-1933), 180.