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  • William Styles, A Guide To Church Fellowship

    Article 16 – The Constitution Of The Church

    June 5, 2023 /

    Articles Of The Faith And Order Of A Primitive Or Strict And Particular Baptist Church Of The Lord Jesus Christ, Based On The Declaration Of Faith And Practice Of John Gill, D. D., 1720 XVI. The Constitution of a Church. We believe that a Church is an independent and organised body of spiritual men and women[1] who have been baptised and are agreed upon the essential truths and ordinances of the Gospel,[2] and have voluntarily given themselves to the Lord and to each other, for their common benefit and the glory of God;[3] and that it is subject (in all spiritual matters) to no authority save that of the Lord as made known in His holy word.[4] ------------------------------- [1] Acts 15:41,42; 18:22; Rom 16:16; 1…

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    Title Page

    January 11, 2023

    Article 14 – The Intermediate State Of The Dead In Christ

    May 22, 2023

    Preface

    January 11, 2023
  • Edward Hiscox's New Directory For Baptist Churches

    15 Christian Baptism

    May 30, 2023 /

    Ordination, in its popular sense, is that form of service by which men are admitted to the ranks of the Christian ministry, and to the exercise of its functions. So important a relation does this service sustain to the character of the men who fill their pulpits and become the instructors and guides of the churches, that ritualistic communions hold it as a sacrament. While ordination is but one of the avenues by which worthy men can be admitted to, and unworthy men excluded from, the sacred office, yet it is one, and should be sedulously guarded by watchful churches and conscientious Councils and Presbyteries—that the ministry be kept pure and true to its high calling. For, while neither churches nor Councils can prevent a…

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    12 Baptist Councils

    April 17, 2023

    11 The Christian Ministry

    April 11, 2023

    4 Church Officers

    February 20, 2023
  • Articles on Closed Communion (Complete)

    Closed Communion

    April 28, 2023 /

    What is a Strict Baptist? These articles are about the historically, and more importantly, scripturally authentic church practice known as Closed Communion. The practice is also known as ‘Restricted Communion’, and it is from the word ‘restricted’ that ‘Strict Baptist’ churches take their title. Although the casual or unsaved visitor to a Strict Baptist church may indeed find the congregation rather stern, dull or strange at first meeting, the designation ‘strict’ has nothing to do with any such behaviour or dress code which might exist in such a church. Rather, it refers specifically and solely to the scripturally prescribed practice of restricting participation in the communion service to a specifically limited subset of the population. Neither does ‘Strict Baptist’ refer to a denomination, as does,…

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  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

    Chapter 10—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Doubtful Disputations

    April 7, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "However, to be serious, the preacher was conscience that what he required of others he could not give himself, and that if we cannot (as we think we can) produce instances from the New Testament of infant baptism, neither can you produce one plain command, or one evident instance, for and of believers only to be immersed; you are well aware it is not a matter of certainty, but of doubtful disputation; were it a matter of certainty, and a thing so plain that he who runs may read, it would be as evident to one man of common understanding as another." My Reply: 1. You say, To be serious. If you have not been serious, you ought to have been, my brother,…

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    Chapter 19—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Uncharitableness

    June 5, 2023

    Title Page

    January 26, 2023

    Chapter 18—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Denominationalism

    June 5, 2023
  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

    Chapter 9—On Baptism, Answering The Proof For Infant Baptism Recorded In 1 Corinthians 10:2

    March 30, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: “The preacher offered to pay the national debt, if we from the Holy Scripture produced baptized infants. He offered a real impossibility, for a supposed impossibility, and in that he was not wise nor honest neither; for no honest man will, at least ought, to put his hand to a bill he cannot pay when due. The 1 Cor. 10:2. tells me that many infants were baptized in, or rather by the sprinkling of the cloud and by the spray of the sea; you will be so kind as to forward the national debt by return of post." My Reply: 1. I said I would pay the national debt of England in four instalments within twelve months, if infant sprinkling, as a New…

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    Chapter 19—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Uncharitableness

    June 5, 2023

    Chapter 3—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Disorderliness

    February 17, 2023

    Chapter 8—On Baptism, Answering The Challenge Of Proving From Scripture Believer’s Baptism

    March 23, 2023
  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

    Chapter 8—On Baptism, Answering The Challenge Of Proving From Scripture Believer’s Baptism

    March 23, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "The Baptist minister who will shew me the plain unequivocal command for the immersion in water of a believer, as constituting water baptism, either as commanded by Christ, or his apostles under his authority, I tell him this, that in my own chapel, at my own expense I will have a pool made, and he shall be my baptizer—will you accept the challenge?" My Reply: In reply to this paragraph, I shall state some things that appear quite plain to me on the subject of believers' baptism, but I shall not pretend to a successful execution of the challenge, because that which may be laid down as a truth and proved so beyond any fair disputation by one person, may not be at…

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    Chapter 5—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Callousness

    March 1, 2023

    Chapter 17—On Communion, Answering The Proof For Open Communion In John 3:5

    June 5, 2023

    Title Page

    January 26, 2023
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