… baptised and he and Lange continued to search the Scriptures. Oncken then corresponded with the Baptist historian Ivemy who invited him to London to receive Believer’s baptism. Oncken was, however, too busy preaching to undergo a lengthy journey and, reluctantly, had to decline the invitation. Meanwhile, Oncken was also corresponding with the Baptist leaders in the USA. In 1833 Professor Barnas Sears of Hamilton College visited Germany for further studies and spoke to Oncken on …
Posts Tagged Baptist Board
What is a Baptist?
Aug 21
… Before I had the privilege of joining this symposium, I felt that I knew quite well what a Baptist church was. My simple definition was that a Baptist church consisted of a body of believers who had joined together in fellowship, chosen a pastor and deacons, preferably out of their own midst, and decided, on what they held to be Biblical grounds, to require water baptism as an expression of their belief in saving faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ given to them as a gracious act …
… mentions the respective importance of the three Particular Baptists in drawing up the London Baptist Confessions, combating the Seekers, introducing hymn-singing and establishing a Biblical Baptist heritage. Some insight is then given into the sources Haykin has used for his work and good friends are thanked for their support. In keeping with the re-classification of the past, hinted at in Oliver’s foreword, though the book deals with Particular Baptists and their heritage, this …
… the favourite game of nominal evangelicals in the Reformed camp.
As a preacher, pioneer Baptist John Collet Ryland, according to his colleague and biographer William Newman (1773-1835) was ‘a star of the first magnitude’. Converted under Benjamin Beddome in revival days, on taking over a well-established Independent church (College Lane, Northampton), he increased its membership seven-fold. Like Whitefield and Wesley he pioneered open-air preaching in the highways and byways …
Missionary McCoy
Aug 21
… McCoy’s evangelistic aims, the Association rejected his Church’s application because of its Baptist Board connections. They argued that the Board had not support McCoy’s work as promised and showed a despotic and corrupt mismanagement of funds, thus perverting the gospel.
Martin thought that Daniel Parker had influenced the Association negatively but McCoy agreed with them concerning the Philadelphian despots. Nevertheless, he strove to reform the Board and put them back on …
… Civitas praises is an illusion. The local community may support a Montessouri school or a Waldorf, Baptist, Lutheran, American, Muslim or a weird political enterprise and locals of different opinions have only the choice of leaving the district. Muslim friskolor (plur.) introduce Arabic as their teaching language which forces out local non-Muslims. Schools using mainly English are producing pupils who cannot write Swedish.
Civitas’ idea that friskolor are more proficient than …
… insights into the life and ministry of Abraham Booth, a man respected and honoured outside Baptist circles. Oliver sees Booth as following Gill’s leadership in combating Antinomianism and devotes a large section to the controversy between Fuller and Booth which ended in the latter calling Fuller ‘lost’. Booth spoke of a true imputation in the sense that the elect’s guilt was transferred to Christ. Fuller denied any transfer, viewing substitutionary imputation as a figure of …
… 7732 concerning Reformed Southern Baptists and the Reformed faith. On April 30, 1858, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary drew up a charter which they called the ‘Fundamental Law’ of the SB churches and which stated that every Professor in the seminary and student for the SB ministry must believe the twenty principles outlined. These were all soundly Reformed (Calvinistic). Modern critics of the SB’s credal stance, complain that the principles were thrust on the movement by James …
… pioneered a missionary movement is superstitiously believed by Dr. Haykin and his circle but the Baptist Missionary Society Fuller helped to found came at the rear end of a long line of Christian missionary organisations whether church based or, like the BMS, a para-church movement. Andrew Fuller was not the instigator of this missionary society but William Carey who urged the Baptists to act as other churches and nations had been acting for centuries. When Carey reached India, he had more …
Contra Amyraldianism
Aug 21
… wind. I fear he could easily scupper me if I had not my Biblical compass and historical charts on board.
It would appear that the sprightly tar’s present strategy is two-fold. On his port side, contrary to Albion’s ancient mariners, he denies that Daniel 9:24, 1 John 2:2 and Matthew 28:19-20, written squarely in the Statute Book, are compatible with Fleet Governor Stone’s (known as Peter to us) action in throwing out the net and finding only those fish in it which the Lord …
