For those who are interested in Baptist history, this is a “must read” volume by Robert Oliver! This book, History of the English Calvinistic Baptists, traces the story of the English Calvinistic Baptists from the death of John Gill in 1771 to that of Charles Haddon Spurgeon in 1892. It deals not only with the well-known [...]
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Truth by William Cowper
Man, on the dubious waves of error toss’d, His ship half founder’d, and his compass lost, Sees, far as human optics may command, A sleeping fog, and fancies it dry land; Spreads all his canvas, every sinew plies; Pants for it, aims at it, enters it, and dies! Then farewell all self-satisfying schemes, His well-built [...]
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Their foot shall slide in due time- Deut. 32:35 In this verse is threatened the vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, who were God’s visible people, and who lived under the means of grace; but who, notwithstanding all God’s wonderful works towards them, remained (as ver. 28.) void of counsel, having no understanding [...]
Christ’s Love To The Church by Robert Murray M’Cheyne
‘Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church, and give himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy [...]
The Holy Spirit Convincing the World of Sin, Righteousness, and Judgment by George Whitefield
John 16:8, ‘And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.’ These words contain part of a gracious promise, which the blessed Jesus was pleased to make to his weeping and sorrowful disciples. The time was now drawing near, in which the Son of man was [...]
The Method of Grace – Jeremiah 6:14 by George Whitefield
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace. As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere, and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this [...]
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
Chapter 1 THE HOLY SCRIPTURES 1.1 The Holy Scriptures are the only sufficient, certain and infallible rule1 for saving knowledge, faith, and obedience.2 Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence give such clear testimony to the goodness, wisdom and power of God that they leave people without excuse,3 yet they [...]
Baptists, the Bible and Confessions – The Need for Statements of Faith by Gregory A. Wills
From The Southern Seminary Magazine, November 2000 (Volume 68, Number 4), pages 13-15 Baptists have adopted creeds throughout their history. They probably have adopted creeds more than any other denomination. Baptist churches by the tens of thousands adopted a confession of faith when they constituted as a church. Some thousands of Baptist associations have similarly [...]
Are Creeds Appropriate for Bible Believing Baptists by Tom Nettles
The effort to derive positive benefit from confessions seems so strange to some today that it can hardly be distinguished from the scary “C” word, “creedalism.” Though there are valid historical and practical distinctions between the use of statements of faith as a creed and their use as a confession, those distinctions hardly apply to [...]
What is an Historic Baptist? by David A. West, Sr.
The following set of beliefs and distinctives comes directly from the pages of God’s infallible Word. They represent what mainstream Baptists have believed and practiced down through the centuries. The Historic Baptist Faith is synonymous with New Testament Christianity. A New Testament Christian will not just believe these truths in his heart. More importantly, he [...]
On Revivals of Religion: Review of Charles G. Finney – Part I by Albert Dod
We congratulate the friends of truth and order on the appearance of these publications. We have never had any doubt what would be the decision of the public mind respecting the new divinity and new-measure system of our day, if its distinctive features could be brought out to the light and exposed to general observation. [...]
On Revivals of Religion: Review of Charles G. Finney – Part II by Albert Dod
NATURAL DEPRAVITY As might have been expected from what has already been said, Mr. Finney denies that there is any such thing as natural depravity. His views on this subject are easily exhibited. We might describe them all, indeed, in a single phrase, by saying, that they are neither more nor less than the old [...]
On Revivals of Religion: Review of Charles G. Finney – Part III by Albert Dod
We proceed to exhibit to our readers the measures recommended and the spirit displayed in Mr. Finney’s Lectures on Revivals. We do this at the known hazard of being denounced as enemies to revivals, and friends of Satan. But it is a very small thing with us that we should be judged of Mr. Finney’s [...]
On Revivals of Religion: Review of Charles G. Finney – Part IV by Albert Dod
MEASURES TO KEEP FINNEY’S CONVERTS IN THE CHURCH The way is thus laid perfectly open for the entrance of his converts into the church. But how shall they be kept there? There are two new measures proposed by him that might seem to aim at this end, but both of them inadequate. The first is, [...]
The Legacy of Charles Finney by Michael S. Horton
Jerry Falwell calls him ‘one of my heroes and a hero to many evangelicals, including Billy Graham.’ I recall wandering through the Billy Graham Center some years ago, observing the place of honor given to Finney in the evangelical tradition, reinforced by the first class in theology I had at a Christian college, where Finney’s [...]
The Distinguishing Marks of False Teachers by Thomas Brooks
‘But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be [...]
Finney: The Aftermath by Monte E. Wilson
‘And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.‘ Leviticus 10:1 Modern Evangelicalism bears little resemblance to the faith of our Puritan and Pilgrim fathers. Our aim is to make [...]
Charles Finney’s Doctrine of Justification by David H. Linden
Charles Grandison Finney lived in a day when a certain view of justification was in vogue. It would always be in his mind as that other view he did not hold, a view of faith alone as the condition and the obedience of Christ as the foundation. This Reformation doctrine, Finney would turn on its [...]
Another Gospel by Arthur W. Pink
Satan is not an initiator but an imitator. God has an only begotten Son–the Lord Jesus, and so has Satan–’the son of Perdition’ (2 Thess. 2:3). There is a Holy Trinity, and there is likewise a Trinity of Evil (Rev. 20:10). Do we read of the ‘children of God,’ so also we read of ‘the [...]
A Summary of R.L. Dabney on Spurious Excitements by Daniel E. Wray
In the October, 1887 edition of The Presbyterian Quarterly Robert L. Dabney published an article with the title, ‘Spurious Religious Excitements’.1 His biographer, Thomas Cary Johnson, said: ‘This paper ought to be read by most ministers once a year.’2 We believe that the ninety-one years since its publication have served to prove the truth of [...]
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God – Section I by Jonathan Edwards
The Narrative is divided into three sections: I. A General Introductory Statement, II. The Manner of Conversions Various, Yet Bearing a Great Analogy, III. This Work Further Illustrated in Particular Instances. Rev. and Honored Sir, Having seen your letter to my honored Uncle Williams of Hatfield, of July 20, wherein you inform him of the [...]
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God – Section II by Jonathan Edwards
SECTION II. The Manner of Conversion Various, Yet Bearing a Great Analogy. I therefore proceed to give an account of the manner of persons being wrought upon; and here there is a vast variety, perhaps as manifold as the subjects of the operation; but yet in many things there is a great analogy in all.-Persons [...]
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God – Section III by Jonathan Edwards
SECTION III. This Work Further Illustrated in Particular Instances. But to give a clear idea of the nature and manner of the operation of God’s Spirit, in this wonderful effusion if it, I would give an account of two particular instances. The first is an adult person, a young woman whose name was Abigail Hutchinson. [...]
An Account of the Revival of Religion in Northampton in 1740 – 1742 by Jonathan Edwards
As Communicated in a Letter to the Rev. Thomas Prince of Boston, MA Evidently intended for publication, this letter was entitled ‘The State of Religion at Northampton in the County of Hampshire, About 100 Miles Westward of Boston’. It was published in The Christian History, I (Jan. 14, 21, 28, 1743), and also in Dwight’s, [...]
Adding to the Church: During the Eary American Period by Richard J. Bauckham
FOR the purpose of this paper, the ‘early American period’ is intended to cover the New England colonies from c. 1630 to c. 1660, i.e. it begins with the years of the great migration in the 1630s and covers the first generation of the great New England divines: Thomas Hooker (who arrived in New England [...]
