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He thought nothing was so distasteful—even lurid—as the public baptism services of the wretched Baptists. Instead of reverent occasions supervised by learned priests, baptisms were becoming affairs “to which lascivious persons of both sexes resort, as to a public bath,” Woodmason wrote. ”42 The Baptists tormented Woodmason, fueling his contempt for them. Scalawags set a pack of dogs to fighting outside one of Woodmason’s services, and they rioted at weddings he conducted. They accused him of being a Jesuit priest in disguise (just about the worst accusation one could make in this era of bitter anti-Catholicism).
He The Great Awakening 23 did not finish his degree there, deciding to attend a school at Swansea, Massachusetts, which had a Baptist church nearby. His college studies, though incomplete, made him an attractive pastoral candidate. He received his first opportunity to preach at Swansea in 1725. Unlike the relatively democratic preaching practices of seventeenth-century Baptists, the office of teaching elder had become a distinct, revered position by 1725. ”9 Soon after he began preaching at Swansea, John Clarke’s old church, the First Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island, invited Comer to become its pastor.
At one point Comer considered becoming a Congregationalist pastor, and he joined the Congregationalist church at Cambridge, Massachusetts. ” For some time Comer remained in the Congregationalist church and did not seek rebaptism. The death of a close friend and personal brushes with death through sickness and the near wreck of a ship on which he was sailing, led Comer to obey his convictions and accept believer’s baptism. 8 Even as he was leaning toward Baptist principles, Comer began studying for the ministry at Congregationalist-run Yale College.