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Appendix (2): The Predestination of the Muslims
Concerning the Predestination of the Muslims. The reader may, if he pleases, consider himself as entered, at present, on a kind of historical voyage. Some people pretend to think that we are in full sail for Constantinople, and that predestination is at once the compass by which we steer, and the breeze by which we are carried plump into the…
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Appendix (3): The Predestination of the Roman Catholics
Concerning the Predestination of the Papists. It is asserted that Augustine and Aquinas were ''two champions for predestination," and "their names have much weight in the Church of Rome." I am apt to think that such acquaintance, either with St. Augustine's writings or with those of Aquinas, is, at best, extremely slender. Whatever may be said for the truly admirable…
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Authorised Version: Safeguard of the Gospel – Part 1
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Authorised Version: Safeguard of the Gospel – Part 2
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Church Officers: Representative Documents
This is the first article setting forth representative documents that support the truth that Baptist Churches have always had pastors and deacons as their Biblical church officers. I. Representative Confessions of Faith The First London Confession of 1644/46 and the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1677/89 are no doubt the two most influential Confessions of faith in existence.…
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Compendium of Baptist History
J. A. Shackelford completed his "Compendium of Baptist History" in 1891. It was not his original intent to write a history of the Baptists, but rather prepare a chart "which would give a bird's eye view of Baptist History, with its relations to the Catholic hierarchy, and the branches of the Romish church." However, the amount of material acquired through…
