BAPTIST HISTORY LESSON 18

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BAPTIST HISTORYLESSON 18

• Baptist Beginnings in America

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Four essential elements to the Coherent Truth view
I. Baptist are Orthodox

• God is a revealing God

• God is a Triune God

• Jesus is the God/man

II. Baptist are Evangelical

• Justification by faith

• Immediacy and necessity of the Spirits work for
  salvation

• Necessity and completeness of the Work of Christ

• Conversion above nurture

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III. Baptist are confessional and catechetical

• Confessions and catechisms have always been
  essential parts of Baptist church life

• Baptists have seen the necessity of the church
  being formed on a confession
• That is personal
• That is corporate

IV. Baptist are Separate
Baptist have a theologically integrated
ecclesiology vs. our paedobaptist friends who
have an inconsistent ecclesiology Dr. Nettles

• The Church is the body of Christ from all
  nations, a new identity for the people of God

• Visible saints/Believers church

• Baptism of believers only by immersion

• Discipline in the local congregation

• Absence of interference or special favors from
  magistrates

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Baptists have traditionally argued for religious
liberty for all people by advocating a free
church in a free state Nathan Finn
Puritans
Separatists
When Separatists become Baptists the idea that
pure worship could be propagated by the
magistrates power fell to the ground
BACKGROUND OF NEW ENGLAND
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ROGER WILLIAMS
Chronology
b. 1603-1606
Education Pembroke College, Cambridge
1625 period of religious turmoil
Move to America, 1630-31
a. Boston 1631
b. Salem
c. Plymouth
Developed interest in Native Americans
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d. Salem again
Oath of Loyalty
1636 Providence Plantation
1639 Established Baptist Church
Seekers
1644 Obtained charter from Parliament for Rhode
Island
1651 Returns to England to obtain new charter
from Oliver Cromwell's government
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1645 A Key to the Language of America
1645 The Bloody Tenant of Persecution for Cause
of Conscience
Cotton The Bloody Tenant Washed White by the
Blood of the Lamb
The Bloody Tenant Yet More Bloody by Mister
Cottons attempts to Wash it White!
The doctrine of persecution for cause of
conscience, is proved guilty of all the blood of
the souls crying for vengeance under the altar. .
. . All civil states, with their officers of
justice, in their respective constitutions and
administrations, are proved essentially civil,
and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders
of the spiritual, or Christian, state and
worship. . . . It is the will and command of God
that, since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus,
a permission of the most Paganish, Jewish,
Turkish, or anti-christian consciences and
worships be granted to all men in all nations and
countries and they are only to be fought against
with that sword which is only, in soul matters,
able to conquer to wit, the sword of Gods
Spirit, the word of God.
1652 Christenings Does Not Christians Make
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Williams method of argument
Biblical Interpretation
Exposition of Scripture
Correct Hermeneutic
Historical Record
Theological Integrity
Three fold error from forcing conscience
Debate with Quakers 1672
George Fox Digged out of his Burrows