In The Polemics of Infant Baptism, B.B. Warfield writes: All Protestants should easily agree that only Christ’s children have a right to the ordinance of baptism. The cleavage in their ranks enters in only when we inquire how the external Church is to hold itself relatively to the recognition of the children of Christ. If [...]
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Warfield: Baptists are the Consistent Puritans
Posted in Baptism, Baptist Distinctives, ecclesiology, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Puritans and Puritanism, Reformed Theology, Regenerate Church Membership, tagged B.B. Warfield on October 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Why Converted Church Membership
Posted in Baptism, baptismal regeneration, Baptist Distinctives, Baptist Why and Why Not, church membership, ecclesiology, Episcopalianism, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Regenerate Church Membership, Roman Catholicism, SBC, soteriology on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baptist Why and Why Not (1900) Chapter 12: Why Converted Church-Membership By Rev. J. O. Rust, LL. D. Pastor Edgefield Baptist Church. Nashville, Tennessee But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness [...]
Baptist Testimony on Baptism, Church Membership and the Lord’s Supper
Posted in Baptism, Baptist Distinctives, church history, church membership, close communion, confessions, ecclesiology, Lord's Supper, Regenerate Church Membership, SBC on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
1st London Baptist Confession (1644) XXXIX BAPTlSM is an ordinance of the New Testament, given by Christ, to be dispensed upon persons professing faith, or that are made disciples; who upon profession of faith, ought to be baptized, and after to partake of the Lord’s Supper. Matt.28:18,19; John 4:1; Mark 16:15,16; Acts 2:37.38, 8:36,37,etc. XL [...]
Why I Am Now a Baptist
Posted in Baptism, church membership, confessions, infant baptism, Presbyterianism, Regenerate Church Membership, Westminster Standards on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Note: (2/15/09) Instead of merely linking to a post on the PuritanBoard, where I was then serving as a moderator, I thought that as I transfer older posts to this new blog that I’d include the full text here. The following is the substance of an email I sent to both the pastor of the [...]
