[Cronos]

ha! Baptists came from Anabaptists who came from Puritans who came from the Anglicans

The Baptist faith originated from within the English Separatist movement. Prior to the Protestant Reformation, the Church of England (Anglicans) had broken away from the Catholic Church. Then came the mainstream Reformation

Then came John Smyth

in 1606, John Smyth, a Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, had broken his ties with the Church of England. Reared in the Church of England, he became "Puritan, English Separatist, and then a Baptist Separatist," and ended his days working with the Mennonites

[evangmlw]

John the “Baptist,” the forerunner of Jesus Himself, came long before the ana-baptist and the catholics.