|
Throughout the ages, Baptists have been known by different names, our doctrines are from the time of Christ and though at times our beliefs have been controversial, even scorned from within our own denomination, there have always been Baptists who adhere to the sound teaching of God's Word.
It is my sincere prayer that every Baptist will make a renewed interest in knowing their history, rich in Biblical theology and doctrine. As Thomas Armitage plainly states, we cannot be Baptists without the Bible, therefore, to be a Baptist, one must first be grounded in the Word of God from which our Lord commands each and everyone to give an account of our faith boldly,
Sam Hughey, The Reformed Reader
|
|
BAPTISTS AND THE BIBLE
"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. We have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others; nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the consciences of others under the control of man..."—Charles H. Spurgeon
http://www.solid-ground-books.com/detail_1541.asp
|
Historic Baptist Documents "There never was a man in the
world without a creed. What is
a creed? A creed is what you
believe. What is a confession?
It is a declaration of what
you believe. That declaration
may be oral or it may be
committed to writing, but the
creed is there either
expressed or implied."—B.H.
Carrol
Early American Baptists Baptists and Calvinism
Baptists & Church Discipline |
|
ECCLESIA REFORMATA ET SEMPER REFORMANDA—THE CHURCH REFORMED AND ALWAYS REFORMING |
A
Deluxe Leather Edition of the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689
and the Baptist Catechism (1695): 
