JR Graves also included an appendix note about William Kiffin, who he identified as a Landmarker in the book “Old Landmarkism.” Two things worth noting 1) Kiffin was a signer of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. He is second on the list in my copy. Graves would have known this. 2) Notice Graves…
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B.H. Carroll and the 1689
“The Philadelphia Confession of Faith, adopted in 1742, and printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, is, with some modifications, but a reproduction of the old London Confession, adopted in 1689. It is the prevalent standard in 1800.” -B.H. Carroll (1843-1914) The Baptists One Hundred Years Ago
David Benedict and the Philadelphia Confession
David Benedict, Baptist historian who lived 1779-1874, wrote this in his book “Fifty Years Among The Baptists” – The Philadelphia Confession of Faith, published in that city, in 1742, was the standard of most of the oldest Baptist churches in this country, especially in the middle and southern States. This Confession was copied mostly from…
C.H. Spurgeon and the 1689
The following is from the Autobiography of Charles Spurgeon, regarding the 1689 Confession: In 1855,—partly as an answer to the slanders and calumnies by which I was assailed, and partly that my own people might be furnished with a plain statement of “the faith once for all delivered to the saints,”—Messrs. Alabaster and Passmore brought…
J.R. Graves and the 1689
In the book Intercommunion, JR Graves does mention the confession and of course, his disagreement with Article 26, Paragraph 1. He mentioned his preference of the First London or the New Hampshire Confession as to giving what he believed to be a more scriptural definition of the church. (I am not sure even most Landmarkers…
J.M. Pendleton and the 1689
J.M. Pendleton, A “Landmarker” writing about the 1689 Confession: Having indicated who should not baptize, I shall attempt to show who should baptize. Before I refer to the scriptural argument, I will presentwhat has been, as I think, the general views of Baptists, I go back to the Confession of Faith, put forth in London…
Biblical Evangelism
“Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the…
Before You Throw Out The 1689….
Lately, some well meaning (I hope) Landmark Baptists have been bad mouthing the Second London Confession of Faith due to its connection with the Reformed Baptists. This is zeal without knowledge, because few (if any) of the churches in America can trace themselves very far back without finding churches that held to this great confession….