Second London Confession
Based on Presbyterian Westminster confession
Was the basis for the New Hampshire and Philadelphia Confessions
Benjamin Keach
Led Particular Baptists to adopt congregational singing
Clarendon Code
By Charles II
Persecuted 2000 puritan ministers persecuted
What brought religious liberty to Baptists in England 1688-1691
Glorious Revolution
What lesson did we draw from 17th century English Baptists?
They believed that ecclesiology, the nature of the church, was worth suffering for
Roger Williams
Anglican-Puritan-Separatist
Evangelized Indians in Plymouth
Trial, conviction, flee arrest to Narragansett
Providence Plantation
Believer’s baptism = 1st American Baptist Church
Invalid baptism, all churches corrupt so trading post and Indian evangelism
Obadiah Holmes
Whipped
“You have struck me as with roses.”
General Baptist errors of 18th c
Doctrinal Decline
Socinianism
Tolerance
Particular Baptist errors of 18th c
Hyper-calvinism
Lacked vitality
Spurgeon’s 4 tenets of Hyper-calvinism
- Denies that the offer of salvation is universal
- Denies that scripture gives authorization to believe
- Denies that sinners are responsible to accept Christ
- Denies that God desires to save the non elect
3 non Baptists that brought revival to the Anglican church
John Wesley
Charles Wesley
George Whitefield
Dan Taylor’s Organization
The New Connection
Andrew Fuller’s Theological Treatise
Gospel worthy of all acceptation
Major American association and confession of 18th c
Philadelphia Association and Philadelphia Confession of Faith
Three reasons Baptists did not initially embrace the great Awakening
- Revivalists were pedobaptist
- Emotional Excesses
- Calvinist orthodoxy (not calvinist enough)
New England association and committee
Warren Association
Grievance Committee
Where did separate Baptists explode
South Carolina (Charleston) or Virginia, and NC
Regular Baptists vs Separate Baptists
RB= high education standards, reluctant to embrace revival, more emphasis on Calvinism
SB= pro revival, de-emphasized education, less emphasis on Calvinism
William Kiffin
Wealthy merchant
Debated Bunyan on close communion
London Pastor
John Clarke
Rhode Island 2nd Baptist Church
Holmes was his deacon
Obtained RI charter
Henry Dunster
Puritan, first Harvard president, fired for becoming baptist after Holmes whipping
Thomas Goold
Puritan didn’t baptize children, influenced by Dunster
Baptist Church in Boston
William Screven
Member of 1st Boston baptist
Baptist Church in Maine moved to Charleston
Elias Keach
Rebelled and moved to America, convicted during his own sermon, became pastor at pennepek
