FOREWORD
The Two Seed theology attributed to Elder Daniel Parker went
through a number of changes in subsequent years. Elder G.W. Mathes of Cole
County, Ill., starting in the late 1860s, popularized a revised version of Two-Seedism,
which concentrated on eliminating the idea of unconditional election and
eternal punishment while not asserting free will or conditional salvation. In
Florida and South Georgia, this doctrine was popularized by Elder Isaac S. Coon
of Lowndes County. Coon’s Synopsis and Mathes’s Discourse are very complete examples
of the unusual hermeneutics and conclusions of what might be called “Neo-Two
Seedism.” Although the Two Seeders ceased to be a functioning organization in
Georgia and Florida after 1935, aspects of their belief quietly survived among
local Primitive Baptists.
Dr. J. Crowley