Free Will Baptist
（重定向自Freewill Baptist）
![Benjamin Randall, prominent Free Will Baptist leader in the North East](/Images/godic/202501/14/Benjamin_Randall_Free_Will_Baptist2431.jpg")
![Return of Roger Williams a later supporter of the movement, after denouncing the Puritan movement in 1644](/Images/godic/202501/14/Return_of_Roger_Williams2431.jpg")
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Free Will Baptist (or plural: Free Will Baptists) is a denomination and group of people that believe in free grace, free salvation, and free will. The movement can be traced back to the 1600s, with the development of General Baptism in England. Its formal establishment is widely linked to the English theologian, Thomas Helwys, who lead the Baptist movement to believe in generalized atonement. He was as an advocate of religious liberty at a time when to hold to such views could be dangerous, and punishable by death. He died in prison as a consequence of the religious persecution of Protestant dissenters under King James I.