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  • Edward Hiscox's New Directory For Baptist Churches

    16 The Lord’s Supper

    June 6, 2023 /

    The Lord's Supper in its institution, and also as to its symbolic import, as well as in its relation to Christian life and doctrine, has already been considered. It would be useless, in this place, to attempt a history of the rite, especially a detail of the perversions of its uses, the bitter controversies concerning it, or the false claims set up for its sacramental efficacy in working grace in its subjects. The one question with which we are now concerned is a purely denominational one, having reference to the proper subjects of the ordinance, and the spiritual and ritual qualifications of those who partake of it. Also as to the proper and rightful authority of the Church in restricting its use, and judging of…

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    2 A Christian Church

    February 6, 2023

    3 Church Membership

    February 13, 2023

    4 Church Officers

    February 20, 2023
  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

    Chapter 19—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Uncharitableness

    June 5, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "St. Paul's rule of admission to Christian communion is this, As many as Christ has received, let us receive. Rom. 15:7. The whole of Chap. xiv. is applicable, and especially the 15:5, 6, 7. I wish you could be made to blush for your inconsistency— I mean not yours alone, but of your party."  My Reply: 1. Wherein have we differed from Paul's rule in the admission to communion? For that is all still to be discovered and to be proved. You must prove that any one was ever admitted to communion, without being first added to the church, and that there ever was one added to the church without being first baptized on a personal profession of faith in Christ, or that…

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    Chapter 12—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Extremism

    April 21, 2023

    Chapter 2—On Baptism, Anserwing The Charge Of Dishonesty

    February 9, 2023

    Chapter 11—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Schismatic Communion

    April 14, 2023
  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

    Chapter 18—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Denominationalism

    June 5, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "Yours is a Baptist rule, not an apostolical —not Christian—not Christ's rule. It is the rule of a party, and therefore schismatical, because it rends the beautiful garment of Christian love."  My Reply: 1. "Yours is a Baptist rule."  This we are quite ready to admit, and are by no means ashamed of it, nor disposed to conceal it, or deny it; for we have a good conscience in it as such, on the authority of the word of God, as we can find no authority therein for any gospel rule to the contrary. For our great Christ was a Baptist, being baptized in the cold water of the river of Jordan; and he was a Baptist minister, for he made, and by…

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    Preface

    January 26, 2023

    Chapter 1—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Flippancy

    February 2, 2023

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

    March 30, 2023
  • John Foreman's Believer's Baptism And Communion Considered (Complete)

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

    June 5, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "St. Paul's criterion would not be cold water, little or much, but the living water of the Spirit, such as Christ spoke of to Nicodemus, and at the last day of the feast." John iii. 5. vii. 37.  My Reply: 1. If your spirit never be admitted into heaven till you can prove that Paul the apostle as the Lord's servant ever admitted, or that the sentiment as the truth of God ever entered his heart to admit, persons to the table of the Lord without their being first baptized on a personal profession of their faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, you will never, no never, see the face of Jesus, my brother.  2. The work of divine grace in the heart,…

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    Chapter 7—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Willfull Falsehood

    March 16, 2023

    Chapter 16—On Communion, Answering Another Charge Of Schismatic Communion

    June 5, 2023

    Chapter 19—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Uncharitableness

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

    Chapter 16—On Communion, Answering Another Charge Of Schismatic Communion

    June 5, 2023 /

    Mr. Bridgman: "You call it strict, I call it schismatical communion, because you, not we, keep away the children from their Elder Brother's table, unless they conform to your rules, I say your rules ; for since the national debt is to be paid by one of us, I will pay it twice, if you will find me scripture text which saith, or seem to say, Let men and women first be dipped, and so let them eat of the bread, and drink of the cup."  My Reply: 1. Your calling us schismatical is an old popish opprobrium, now and then raked out from among the bats and cobwebs of college cloisters, by the true sons of secular churches, for difference of sentiment only, without…

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

    April 7, 2023

    Chapter 4—On Baptism, Answering The Charge Of Inappropriateness

    February 24, 2023

    Chapter 14—On Communion, Answering The Charge Of Exclusivity

    May 26, 2023
  • 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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    Article 13 – Final Perseverance

    May 14, 2023

    Article 5 – The Mediation Of Christ

    February 26, 2023

    Table Of Contents

    January 11, 2023
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