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Baptist Heritage
The Abstract of Principles – Founders.org
When the original charter of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was adopted in 1858 it contained the following statement which continues as a part of the “fundamental laws.” “Every professor of the institution shall be a member of a regular Baptist Church; and all persons accepting professorships in this Seminary shall be considered, by such acceptance, as engaging to teach in accordance with, and not contrary to, the Abstract of Principles hereinafter laid down, a departure from which principles on his part shall be grounds for his resignation or removal by the Trustees.”
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! – Al Mohler
The Abstract is a reminder that we bear a responsibility to this great denomination, whose name we so proudly bear as our own. We bear the collective responsibility to call this denomination back to itself and its doctrinal inheritance. This is a true reformation and revival only the sovereign God can accomplish, but we must strive to be acceptable and usable instruments of that renewal.
Baptist Beginnings – Leon McBeth
Some people try to trace organized Baptist churches back to New Testament times or to John the Baptist. One writer even suggested that Adam was the first Baptist! Certainly we believe that our doctrine and faith root in the New Testament, but we first meet our organized denomination considerably this side of Adam.
Southern Baptist Beginnings – Robert A. Baker
Southern Baptist beginnings were filled with exciting events. To capture this excitement requires describing Baptist beginnings in America, why the Southern Baptist Convention was organized, why some call it a different kind of Baptist body, and how it got so large. The story will go as far as the founding of the Sunday School Board in 1891, which was a very important event in Southern Baptist fife.
The London Baptist Confession of Faith – (1689)
This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness. It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured. We hold to the humbling truths of God’s sovereign grace in the salvation of lost sinners. Salvation is through Christ alone and by faith alone.” – C. H. Spurgeon
Baptist History – The Reformed Reader (Extensive!)
Christian history, in the First Century, was strictly and properly Baptist history, although the word “Baptist,” as a distinctive appellation was not then known. How could it be? How was it possible to call any Christians Baptist Christians, when all were Baptists?” William Cathcart, The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881, p. 286.
What is a Reformed Baptist? – The Reformed Reader
What is a Reformed Baptist Church? Is your congregation half Reformed and half Baptist? Do you sprinkle and immerse? What do you mean by Reformed Baptist? The Reformed Baptist Churches are a group of independent local congregations committed to historic Christianity and in particular, historic Baptist principles.
What Is an Historic Baptist? – David A. West
Historic Baptists have always held a high, scriptural view of God. Their view differed substantially from the God that many preachers present from pulpits today. They saw God as the absolute Sovereign, the ruler over the affairs of men.
Baptists and Elders – Mark Dever
While the magisterial reformers were constantly limited by what the state would allow, the Baptists, having rejected infant baptism, and thus any hope of church and state being co-extensive, were free to treat Scripture as fully and finally sufficient, even on the potentially controversial topic of church structure. And so they, and we, turn to the Bible, believing it to be sufficient to teach us even how to organize our churches.
The Baptists (Extensive!) – The Reformed Reader
“Looking back to the founding fathers has the potential to provoke spiritual renewal by helping modern believers more clearly understand the Word of God. Such a reformation and revival among the Southern Baptists could, under God, significantly influence the missions, theological education, worship, and evangelism in the entire modern evangelical world…. ” – Thomas Nettles
John Henry said
This statement is absurd:
“Our best historical evidence says that Baptists came into existence in England in the early seventeenth century. They apparently emerged out of the Puritan-Separatist movement in the Church of England. Some of these earnest people read the Bible in their own language, believed it, and sought to live by it. They formed separate congregations which accepted only believers into their membership, and they baptized converts upon their profession of faith. Their opponents nicknamed them ‘Baptists,’ and the name stuck. This pamphlet will fill in some of the details of that story.”
The Baptists did not just decide to form themselves one fine day in England the 1600s. That flies in the face of Scripture. The Lord Jesus said to His first Church, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD. Amen.” Christ personally established His Church in His earthly sojourn, and there has never been one second since that there has not been a local New Testament church to carry out the Great Commission given to it.
“Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.” (Eph 3:21)
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Brian Thornton said
We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. – Spurgeon