Baptist Confessions of Faith

by W. J. McGlothlin

Publisher:

American Baptist Publication Society

, 1911

Overview

Grasp the content of Baptist confessions and study the development of Baptist doctrine with William McGlothlin’s Baptist Confessions of Faith. This classic resource collects Anabaptist and Baptist confessions of faith from the latter part of the Reformation through the early twentieth century. Analyze important documents such as The New Connection, First and Second London Confessions of Faith, and The Philadelphia Confession. Compiled into one handy resource, this work is a great reference, providing easy access to the essential texts of the Baptist tradition.

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Key Features

• Collects important Baptist and Anabaptist confessions into one resource
• Supplies essential documents for understanding the development of Baptist doctrine
• Contains confessions from the end of the Reformation through the early twentieth century

Contents

• The Anabaptists
• The Mennonites
• The English Baptists
• American Baptists
• Confessions of Other Nationalities

Top Highlights

“It is not known that the meeting was held, but in 1677 such a meeting seems to have been held, and this Westminster Confession, altered to suit Baptist views of the church and its ordinances, was adopted.” (Page 216)

“After the Act of Toleration, in 1689, the Calvinistic Baptists of England and Wales held their first General Assembly in London.” (Page 217)

“The Anabaptists were not Baptists in the modern acceptation of that term, since they did not insist upon immersion as the only acceptable mode or form of baptism. Some of them practised immersion at least occasionally, but none of them required it as a term of communion, and apparently a majority practised affusion. They held, however, so many fundamental Baptist doctrines that their Confessions deserve a place here. So far as known the mode of baptism was never a matter of discussion among them.” (Page 1)

“They betray no consciousness of dependence, stoutly maintaining the view that their distinctive doctrines were drawn from a direct and faithful study of the word of God under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So far as the life history of early individual Anabaptists has been traced, they all came out of the Catholic Church, rather than from the sects. This is certainly true of all their leaders, many of whom had been priests or monks in that church.” (Page 1)

“That those which have union with Christ, are justified | from all their sinnes, past, ¹present, and to come, by the | bloud of Christ; which justification wee conceive to be | a gracious and free ²acquittance of a guiltie, sinfull crea- | ture, from all sin by God, through the satisfaction that | Christ hath made by his death; and this applyed in the | manifestation of it through faith.” (Page 182)

Product Details

• Title: Baptist Confessions of Faith
• Author: W. J. McGlothlin
• Publisher: American Baptist Publication Society
• Print Publication Date: 1911
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 388
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Baptists › Creeds
• Resource ID: LLS:BPTSTCNFSSNSFTH
• Resource Type: text.monograph.confessional-document
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:20:13Z

About W. J. McGlothlin

William Joseph McGlothlin (1867–1933) was professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1894 to 1919, and president of Furman University from 1919 to 1933. He also wrote A Guide to the Study of Church History.