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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
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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
Historic Baptist Documents Baptists & Church Discipline Reforming A Local Church Manual of Church Discipline A Treatise on Church Order The Glory of a True Church Treatise of Church Discipline True and Orderly Gospel Church Summary of Church Discipline Church Discipline Lost, but Recoverable 1689 London Baptist Confession Primitive Baptists on Church Discipline Pendleton's Church Manual Nine Marks of a Healthy Church |
Early American Baptists Baptists and Calvinism The Philadelphia Association, 1707 The Charleston Association, South Carolina, 1751 The Sandy Creek Association, North Carolina, 1758 The Kehukee Association, North Carolina, 1765 The Ketocton Association. Virginia, 1760 The Warren Association, Rhode Island, 1767 The Stonington Association, Connecticut, 1772 The Red Stone Association, Pennsylvania, 1776 The New Hampshire Association, New Hampshire, 1776 The Shaftesbury Association, Vermont, 1781 The Woodstock Association, Vermont, 1783 The Georgia Association, Georgia, 1784 The Holston Association, Tennessee, 1780 The Bowdoinham Association. Maine, 1787 The Vermont Association, Vermont, 1787 |
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ECCLESIA REFORMATA ET SEMPER REFORMANDA—THE CHURCH REFORMED AND ALWAYS REFORMING |
