“Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”

1. “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 29 18 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,  19 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 1 Corinthians 11:18-19

2. Origin of Baptists SPONTANEOUS APOSTOLIC 1) Historical succession 2) Perpetuity of distinctives ANABAPTIST KINSHIP ENGLISH SEPERATISTS *CONVERGENT VIEW*

3. BAPTISTS PARTICULAR GENERAL PURITAN SEPERATIST

4. GAINSBOROUGH 1602 JOHN SMYTH SCROOBY 1606 ROBINSON/BREWSTER 1608 Holland • New World (America) • Pilgrims

5. GAINESBOROUGH 1607 HOLLAND 1609 Dutch Waterlander Doctrine vs. Ecclesiology BAPTIST IDENTITY Soul Liberty: freedom/voluntarism Coherent-Truth: above with doctrinal basis 1611 Thomas Helwys Returned to England Spitalsford First constituted Baptist Ch

6. GENERAL BAPTISTS 1626 5 churches 1644 47 churches in loose affiliation 1651 “Faith & Practice's of 30 Congregations Gathered in the Primitive Pattern” 1678 Orthodox Creed General Councils “divine authority, and . . . are the best means under heaven to preserve unity and prevent heresy”

7. PARTICULAR BAPTISTS 1616 Henry Jacob Puritan Independent Congregation John Lathrop Jacob/Lathrop Group 1633 John Spillsbury 1639 5 identifiable Baptist churches 1641 “ought to be by dipping ye Body into ye Water, resembling Burial and rising again” 1644 Seven Particular Baptist Churches 1. To distinguish themselves from Anabaptists 2. To draw attention to their Calvinistic doctrine

8. John Spillsbury/William Kiffen/Samuel Richardson “That Christ Jesus by this death did bring forth salvation and reconciliation onely for the elect, which were those which God the Father gave him, and that the Gospel which is to be preached to all men as the ground of faith, is, that Jesus is the Christ, the Sonne of the everblessed God, filled with the perfection of all heavenly and spirituall excellencies, and that the salvation is onely and alone to be had through the believing in his Name.” (Original spelling maintained)

9. 1646 Presented to Parliament March 4, 1647 Officially recognized and granted legal toleration CONTEXT: 1660-1689 Restoration Chas II/Persecution of Dissenting Churches 1677 Second London Confession 1689 General Assembly of Particular Baptists Benjamin Keach Hanserd Knollys William Kiffen “Father of Particular Baptist”

10. Shared Characteristics • Closed membership: only baptized believers • Open communion • Preference for the Lord’s Day • Promotion of an educated and ordained ministry Does the 1644 Confession contain “New Covenant Theology?” How do the Baptist fare after toleration? Gospel Standard or Strict Baptist 1792 English Baptist Missionary Society

11. New England 1639 Roger Williams or John Clark’s group 1663 Rehoboth; moved to Swansea in 1667 Maine: William Screven Sept. 25, 1682 Moves to Charleston, SC 1684

12. MIDDLE COLONIES 1688 Lower Dublin Church 1689 Began yearly general meeting: devotional/evangelistic help July 27, 1707 Philadelphia Baptist Association Regular Baptists Were these churches ‘confessional?’ 1712 all were advised to ascribe to Elias Keach’s confession 1724 Referred a question to ‘the Confession of Faith set forth by the elders in London in 1689, and owned by us.’ 1743 Philadelphia Confession of Faith