Baptist Doctrines

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Suffered more than any other, under Charles II, because they professed the principles of religions liberty. Jeremy Taylor says, Freedom of conscience, unlimited freedom of mind, was from tho first the trophy of the Baptists. Our own Washington used words just as affectionate; and in August, 1789, at the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Suffered more than any other, under Charles II, because they professed the principles of religions liberty. Jeremy Taylor says, Freedom of conscience, unlimited freedom of mind, was from tho first the trophy of the Baptists. Our own Washington used words just as affectionate; and in August, 1789, at the request of the Baptists, he recommended to Congress that amendment to the Constitution which says that Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof. Bancroft, our great historian, and Judge Story, our great jurist, speak of us in the same manner. I can assure you that we never blush, when we remember that Milton and Bunyan, Sir Harry Vane and John Hampden, and Roger Williams, were all Baptist laymen. Hor when we think that John Gill and Andrew Fuller, Adoniram Judson and William Carey, Robert Hall and Charles Spurgeon, Horatio Hackett and Thomas Conant, were Baptist missionaries, scholars and ministers. And as to other denominations; I only wish that we used the Bible more in public worship, as Episcopalians do; that we had as learned a ministry as our Presbyterian brethren have?as much pathos and zeal as our Methodist brethren?as much simplicity as the Society of Friends?and as much self- sacrifice as the Boman Catholics?and a good deal more heart-felt religion than either we or they have at present. God knows I love them all, and if theywould stop scolding us, and pray for us twice where they speak unkindly of us once, they would be happier and we should be better. God bless them all, 1 say. Amen. THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. BY REV. J. B. JETER, D. D., RICHMOND, TA. All Scripture U given by inspiration of God.?2 Time thy iii. 16. There are among theologians various theories of inspiration; but...