A History of New England, Vol. 2: With Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of New England, Vol. 2: With Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists The powers of thinking and choice are so essential to all rational spirits, that without them no idea can be formed of their existence. A desire of the knowledge and enjoyment of the best good, also appears essential to their nature. Therefore, as finite knowledge is limited, finite spirits would ever be liable to err, if they had not some sufficient guard against it. And the best guard we can conceive of, is a clear, fixed persuasion in the heart, that God is the only fountain of all good and that every desirable good is to be obtained and enjoyed in the way of obedience to his revealed will, and nowhere else. That he is the absolute Proprietor, and the sovereign Ruler of the worlds he has made, is a truth too evident for any but madmen to deny. All nations have been forced to appeal to him, to avenge injustice and perjury, in order to establish any government among themselves. Yet how far have they been from a willingness to be governed entirely by him! He made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. Objects of wor ship and forms of worship, even without number, have been invented by mankind; the folly whereof God has exposed in all his dispensations Yet self-conceit, self-seeking, and self-dependence, are still the ruining errors of the world. 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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The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace: Opened & Vindicated from Holy Scripture

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This solid volume is very rare indeed. It contains THE DOCTRINE OF SOVEREIGN GRACE - OPENED & VINDICATED (1771) ELECTION, PERSEVERANCE AND GOD'S DECREES (1789) THE SOVEREIGN DECREES OF GOD (1773) THE GREAT FALLING AWAY: Ther Last Days in Fulfillment (1773) VERY LARGE AND READABLE PRINT.

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A seasonable plea for liberty of conscience, against some late oppressive proceedings; particularly in the town of Berwick, in the county of York. Four lines from Goddard.

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Your Baptist Heritage: 1620-1804

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Your Baptist Heritage, 1620 - 1804, originally published in 1844 under the title Church History of New England from 1620-1804, is a book that Baptists will treasure as a vital part of their history. This period of Baptist history, as in nearly all of their history, reflects the continuing persecution they have had to endure because of their strict adherence to the doctrines of the Word of God, particularly, the doctrines concerning the church and the ordinances. Though never persecuting others, they themselves have been the object of persecution since their first church was started by the Lord Himself in Jerusalem during the first century, and one cannot write of the history of Baptists without mentioning the many cruelties they have had to endure. The same persecutions which they suffered for centuries in Europe followed them to America, and it was only through the efforts of men like Isaac Backus that all men today in the United States are free to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience, whether they be Baptists, Catholics, Jews or none at all. This book describes these early eff orts and the success of Baptists in securing this religious freedom and making it a part of the United States Constitution. Though other denominations may not be aware of this fact, they owe a debt of gratitude to the Baptists, for Baptists, practically alone, fought for and secured this freedom for all.

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Isaac Backus on Church, State and Calvinism Pamphlets 1754-1789

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Isaac Backus on Church, State, and Calvinism

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Isaac Backus'' Pamphlets, 1754-1789. Edited by William G. McLoughlin. -- Isaac Backus, whose career spanned the sixty years from the First to the Second Great Awakening, was the most forceful and effective spokesman for the evangelical theory of the separation of church and state that America produced. In this respect, as William McLoughlin points out in his detailed and perceptive Introduction, Backus deserves to rank with Roger Williams and Thomas Jefferson. His ambition, not finally achieved until a generation after his death, was to obtain religious liberty and equality for all sects through the disestablishment of the Congregational churches in New England. - This collection of his writings emphasizes his contribution to the movement for the separation of church and state. He himself, however, valued most highly his contribution to the founding and advancement of the Separate-Baptist persuasion and to the defense of Calvinism, to him the only true interpretation of Scripture.

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An Appeal To The Public For Religious Liberty, Against The Oppressions Of The Present Day (1773)

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A History Of New-england, With Particular Reference To The ... Baptists

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