Our Denominational Outlook (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Our Denominational Outlook Yet before I begin to tell what Baptists have done, are doing, and need to do, I must say what a Baptist is. What is the essential principle for which we contend? I maintain that we stand above all things for a spiritual church. The church is the body of Christ. It properly consists only of those who have been renewed by the Spirit of God, and are joined to Christ by a living faith. This conception of a spiritual church carries with it all the other articles of our creed. The word "spiritual" suggests the deity of Christ, whose omnipotent Spirit is the source of the church´s life. The word "church" suggests the outward expression of that life in the forms appointed by Christ himself. Thus a spiritual church implies a regenerate church membership on the one hand, and the New Testament ordinances and polity on the other. Dependence on the Scriptures as the sufficient and only standard of faith and practice, and independence of the State in all matters of doctrine and government, while they are not the central truths, are yet logical corollaries of the Baptist faith. It is the vision of a spiritual church which Baptists have ever had before them. Our insistence upon the proper subjects and the proper mode of baptism is not the essential, but only the incidental, of our belief. Because we hold that the church is the body of Christ, we cannot accept the statement of the Westminster Confession that the church consists of those who "profess the true religion, together with their children," for this includes in the church those who give no credible evidence of regeneration. Because we hold that immersion of the body in water was appointed by our Lord as the sign of his death and resurrection and of the believer´s entrance into communion therewith, we cannot regard any body as a regularly constituted church of Christ which disobeys or ignores his command by the substitution of any other mode of baptism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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