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1772 D. Turner Modest Plea Free Communion 10 The very reverse of this [sc. cold indifference to the cause of truth] has been experienced, in those very churches where free Communion has been indulged to the Pœdobaptists.

1847 Free Communion Breach of Trusts (Baptist Chapel, St. Mary's Norwich) 18/2 The settlers did not put this place in trust for the practice of free-communion, which..violates all these principles.

1886 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 65/1 Particular Baptists..are subdivided into two sections on the question of free or strict communion..the ‘strict’ or ‘close communionists’ admitting to the Lord's Supper only those who have been baptized as adults.

1910 Relig. Bodies: 1906 (U.S. Bureau of Census) II. 117 To many of them the term ‘Free Baptist’ seemed more nearly descriptive and to be preferred, since they believed not only in the doctrine of free will, but also in free grace and in free communion.

2003 P. Naylor Calvinism, Communion & Baptists vii. 117 Free communion ‘means access for everybody, including Quakers and Papists’, for Buttfield apparently an ultimate horror.