Manual of Theology, Second Part: A Treatise on Church Order

by John L. Dagg

Publishers:

Southern Baptist Publication Society; S. S. & Publication Board

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, 1859

Overview

John L. Dagg’s Manual of Theology is divided into two volumes: the first a treatise on Christian doctrine; the second, on ecclesiology. Volume two presents a study of Baptist Church Orders in the following chapters:

• Obedience to Christ
• Baptism
• Local Churches
• The Church Universal
• Infant Membership
• Communion
• Washing of Feet
• Public Worship
• Ministry
• Discipline
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Duty of Baptists

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Contents

Top Highlights

“In primitive times, the members of different local churches associated with each other, as members of the great fraternity. Paul was doubtless welcomed at the Lord’s table, by the disciples at Troas. This transient communion is now practised. The Lord’s supper is properly a church ordinance; but an individual, duly qualified to be admitted to membership in a church, may be admitted for the time as a member, and received to transient communion, without any departure from the design of the institution.” (Pages 213–214)

“when discipline leaves a church, Christ goes with it.” (Page 274)

“Punctual attendance on the ministrations of the word, is necessary to the spiritual improvement of the church. It is necessary to encourage the heart of the minister. He cannot be expected to preach with earnestness and persevering zeal, if his people manifest no pleasure in listening to the truth which he proclaims. Let him know that they drink in the word with delight, that their souls are refreshed by it, and that it greatly increases their fruitfulness in holiness; with this knowledge, he will be stimulated to go forward in his work with boldness, and to endure all his toils with the sustaining assurance that his labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (Page 271)

“Prayer meetings are an important means of spiritual improvement. It has been said that the prayer meeting of a church is the thermometer by which its spiritual temperature may be known. When Christians love to meet, that they may pour forth their united supplications to the throne of grace, the Saviour, in fulfilment of his promise, meets with them, and bestows blessings which infinitely transcend all earthly good, and are a beginning of heavenly bliss.” (Page 273)

Product Details

• Title: Manual of Theology, Second Part: A Treatise on Church Order
• Author: John L. Dagg
• Series: Manual of Theology
• Publishers: Southern Baptist Publication Society, S. S. & Publication Board, B. B. & Colporteur Society, B. B. & Book Depository, B. B. Depository
• Print Publication Date: 1859
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 312
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Theology, doctrinal; Baptists › Doctrinal and controversial works
• Resource ID: LLS:MANNTHEODAGG02
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T15:47:37Z

About John L. Dagg

John Leadley Dagg (1794–1884), born in Loudoun County, Virginia, lived to be over 90 years old. He died in June 1884, as one of the most respected men in American Baptist life, and remains one of the most profound thinkers produced by his denomination. Dagg overcame extraordinary problems – a limited education, near-blindness, and physical disability – to become a great pastor in Philadelphia and elsewhere and then an educator both in Alabama and as president at Mercer University in Georgia.