1655 Midland Confession of Faith. The Puritans often spoke of overeating as a gateway to sexual sin; their reasoning in linking uncleanness with greediness, rooted in Eph 4:19 (which being past feeling, they have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all uncleanness, even with greediness, Geneva Bible [1599]) was that indulging one lesser lust made it much easier to indulge another greater, more consequential one. Who determines truth from falsehood? For a discussion of how robust a confession of faith should be, see B.H. An audio book recording of The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, a Reformed, Calvinistic, and Baptistic confession of faith from the 17th century that Charles Spurgeon would use and is still in use among Reformed Baptist churches to this very day. But it is essential. In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to make the world. Does it matter what we do? [11] Keach, Letter to the Congregation with whom I am a Member (and the unworthy Overseer) who are in God, in Articles of Faith, op. And forasmuch as that Confession is not now commonly to be had, and also that many others have since embraced the same truth which is owned therein, it was judged necessary by us to join together in giving a testimony to the world of our firm adhering to those wholesome principles by the publication of this which is now in your What does the Bible itself teach about the Word of God? Jun 2 Introduction Brian Malcolm. For a suggestion about how a church might subscribe to the Second London Confession of Faith, seeHow to Subscribe to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. For he that companieth with many, is sundered as it were into many parts.. [24] Haykin notes that 2LCs mutual help language draws from Cramners marriage service in The 1552 Book of Common Prayer. 1:19-20)to bethe mediator between God and man(1 Tim. 53:10; Ps. The Motivations of Marriage (2LC 25.2)[21], Marriage was ordained[22] for the mutual help of husband and wife, for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and the preventing of uncleanness. [22] Marriage is neither sacrament nor ordinance in the Roman Catholic sacerdotal sense. 63:14; Eph. [44] James Fisher defines consanguinity as a relation by blood, being between persons descended from the same family and affinity as an alliance by marriage, between persons who were not blood relations before. Assemblys Shorter Catechism Explained, II.71.18-20. The paragraphs in which I deal with parts of the Scriptures doctrine are not necessarily in a logical order, therefore, here are the topics in a somewhat more logical order: This chapter is in many ways based upon the truths in2 Timothy 3:16. After being one of the pastors of the Reformed Baptist Church of Grand Rapids for almost 24 years, Sam Waldron is now attending Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky where in May of 2005 he will complete a Ph. It doesn't hurt that he is a brilliant theologian either. From all eternity God decreed everything that occurs, without reference to anything outside himself. Our Confession (written in 1689) relies upon the Savoy's revision of the Westminster which is evident in the first four paragraphs of chapter 26. 1:9, Job 11:7-9; 26:14;Isa. Heb 10:11-14). Hercules Collins, An Orthodox Catechism, Q&A 67; Caspar Olevanius (1536-1587) and Zacharias Ursinius (1534-1583), The Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Q&A 68; Guido de Bres (1522-1567), The Belgic Confession (1561), Article 33; Bullinger, Second Helvetic Confession, XIX.3; Directory of Public Worship, 111; Perkins, Exposition upon the Whole Epistle of Jude, in Works, IV.82; William Ames (1576-1633), The Marrow of Theology, II.xix.18; Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, III.559f; aBrakel, Christians Reasonable Service, II.484f; John Brown of Haddington (1722-1787), Systematic Theology, 534; Pastoor and Johnson, Historical Dictionary of the Puritans, 197f. 10:10. Samuel Waldron goes through each chapter and paragraph and expounds biblically on the statements in the confession, with the occasional comment about historical context. 2LC brings the question finally to authority. Instead, Scriptures wisdom calls spouses to give mutual attention to one another in order to care for the others soul and be pleasing to God (2 Cor 5:9), expressed by the one-anothers of the NT. The ChurchVII. Baptism and the Lord's SupperVIII. [5] While no explicit statement of 2LCs reasoning for the deletion occurs, Savoys preface specifically cites WCF 24s extended treatment of marriage and divorce, arguing on this head that nothing tends more to heighten Dissensions among Brethren, than to determine and adopt the matter of their difference, under so high a Title, as to be an Article of our Faith.[6] Renihan helpfully reminds us that deletion of terms or phrases does not necessarily imply the rejection of a concept.[7] But brotherly love and firm unity in the leading principles of truth presented sufficient reason to permit differences of conscience on the debatable point of divorce,[8] while standing lockstep regarding the sanctity of marriage. Baptist Confession of Faith. Chapter 6 The Fall of Mankind, and Sin and Its Punishment, Chapter 15 Repentance to Life and Salvation, Chapter 17 The Perseverance of the Saints, Chapter 18 Assurance of Grace and Salvation, Chapter 20 The Gospel and the Extent of Its Grace, Chapter 21 Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience, Chapter 22 Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day, Chapter 28 Baptism and the Lords Supper, Chapter 31 The State of Humanity after Death and the Resurrection of the Dead, 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith in Modern English, How to Subscribe to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. May we do all things in the spirit of St. Francis de Sales with compassion, humility, and gentleness. 1:3; Isa. [47] Christians thus conclude that sexual experience outside of wedlock is sin. Accessed via EEBO at https://bit.ly/39PthpH. If there was no creation, there would obviously be nothing. 1689 Federalism is a view of covenant theology (distinguished by its belief that the old and new covenants are different, distinct covenants and that only the new covenant is the covenant of grace) that was held by every published particular baptist work in the 17th century. So too John Trapp (1601-1669): It is not the having [merely sexually], but the loving [rightly] of a wife, that keepeth a man chaste and clean (Commentary on the NT, note on 1 Cor 7:9). 1 Cor 7 is of great help in considering how Jesus sanctifies his people within marriage. 1:11, Gen. 50:20; 2 Sam. Let God be true, and every man a liar (Rom 3:4). What does it mean that the Scripture is inspired? Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms, Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology, 269f. (Lev 18; Mk 6:18; 1 Cor 5:1). A great tool to strengthen such a union, La Belle and Beeke provide a helpful Appendix of George Swinnocks (1627-1673) prayers for husbands and wives in Living in a Godly Marriage, 237-57. Picture Information. 10:12; Ps. It calls instead for repentance and godly grief (2 Cor 7:8-13). 7:21-22; Isa. Scripture demonstrates, then, that love is loveisnt. It is well written and remains faithful to the confession while explaining the positions brought forth within its pages. God intends marital intimacy as protection against the threats of fornication, adultery, and general immorality; his interest is in both husbands and wifes mutual conformity to Christ. Ezra required Israel to put away their foreign women some 15 years prior to Nehemiahs encounter, demonstrating an honorable zeal for purity and reformation according to Gods word, though Scripture never presents his solution as normative. The question is: Was everythingthat He revealed accurate and true? Picture 1 . Cf. But every marital distortion, innovation, and confusion bespeaks the death throes of a serpent whose head was crushed by the Lamb who has overcome (Rev 17:14). (Gen 2:18; Gen 1:28; 1Co 7:2,9). Should you use the 1689 London Confession in your church? 9:19; Heb. This exposition was originally published in 1989 to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of the Second London Confession, which also became known as the '1689 Baptist Confession of Faith'. 2LCs final reason is for preventing uncleanness[27] that is, to safeguard mutual purity, and provide marital pleasure (the Puritans often termed it rendering due benevolence or safeguarding marital chastity). doctrine which is espoused by the Confession to my satisfaction. 8:4,6; 1Thess. God does, by his word, because of his holy character. The Lord's DayIX. Renihan, A Toolkit for Confessions: Helps for the Study of English Puritan Confessions of Faith, 7-84, and Lumpkin, Baptist Confessions of Faith 2nd edition, 130-41,216-22. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Many Baptists don't know why they are Baptist. It never anticipates a normative NT response to mixed marriage,[40] but rather models the zealous care believers must exercise in obeying Scriptures requirements forbidding fornication or sexual immorality, wherein extramarital relationships should be repented of and relinquished. Theonly begotten Sonwas from all eternitychosen and ordained(Isa. Manton notes that God was the first Author of it; his act hath the force of an institution.[23] 2LC records 3 significant reasons why God instituted or ordained marriage. What does it mean that Scripture is inerrant and infallible? Failing to honor Gen 2:24s pattern of leaving all others, cleaving to one another, and weaving two lives into one is where most marital strife occurs, but the Bible offers no remedies of consensual manipulation popularly accepted as godly counsel. We shall reason from Scripture in explaining the Confession, referencing relevant primary sources where helpful. Be they non-expiatory (spontaneous, voluntary offerings simply to please God) or expiatory (offered as a result of crime, sin, ritual impurity, etc., in atonement for sin), the Levitical sacrifices were all about . For as a man may commit a fault in excess of wine, although it be his own: so may he sin in abusing his body with his own wife (A Body of Divinity, 27th Head). Jun 2. "Absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe [10] Benjamin Keach (1640-1704), The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697. [23] Manton, A Wedding Sermon, Works, II.162. Titles / MP3 Files: 01) General Introduction 02) Of The Holy Scriptures 03) Of God and of The Holy Trinity 04) Of God's Decree 05) Of Creation 06) Of Divine Providence It need not be denied that a slight revision of the 1689 Confession is necessary here. Approaching 2LCs structure, a chapters first paragraph typically presents its thesis, while subsequent paragraphs provide exposition and expansion of the concept. Renihan, Toolkit, 93-95. Sagamore Baptist Church is live now. 1:2; John 1:2-3; Gen. 1:2; Job 26:13; 33:4, Rom. [33] Wollebius, Compendium Theologiae Christianae, II.XI.3.vi. Did God predestine because He saw what was going to come to pass? Baptist Confession of 1689 Introduction Foreward Chapter Titles Chapter 1Of the Holy Scriptures Chapter 2Of God and the Holy Trinity Chapter 3Of God's Decree Chapter 4Of Creation Chapter 5Of Divine Providence Chapter 6Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof Chapter 7Of God's Covenant Chapter 8Of Christ the Mediator 22:30; 1 Tim. 2:5). See less. The 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (2LC or 1689 hereafter) offers much help here in both grasping and giving the eternal nature of Christian truth. See Truths Victory Over Error, XXIV.III. How many covenants does the Bible have and which are these? Modern Christianity is awash in a flood of doctrinal relativity. Are men as bad as they can be? He writes in a direct and lucid style that will help ministers, students and laymen alike to a clear understanding of this Confession and to its relevance and application to our modern age. He now reigns for her good and causes all things to serve her salvation. Scripture names Gods binding man and wife together a covenant (Mal 2:14f; Hos 6:7), wherein they prefer one another above any earthly relation, hold fast to one another in self-giving intimate love, and blend their lives together in all things. The earthly family points to the eternal family; our earthly dominion points to his eternal dominion. What is Sola Scriptura? They also taught baptismal regeneration, free will, allegory, and celibacy. 21:1; 1 Kings 22:22-23; 2 Sam. They are both equally in the church of God; equally at the banquet of God; equally in straights, in persecutions, in refreshments. In other words, though marriage is a common grace blessing, it has a special grace intent godly offspring (Mal 2:15). [17] Though the one flesh marital union is a key biblical-theological concept (Gen 2:24f; Mt 19:5f), Jesus validates parking for nothing but two real people. If Christ the lawgiver does not carry final weight for the discussion, then Christ the redeemer cannot be given weight either. About a year ago or more,[1] I started diving into the 1689 Baptist Confession of faith to study it. What is Gods justice? No false or forbidden union can be legislated into legitimacy. Interestingly, James Fisher (1697-1775) disagrees pointedly with this reading of Eph 5, arguing that it borders too near on making marriage a sacrament, as the Papists do in his The Assemblys Shorter Catechism Explained, II.71.22-24. [28] He gives us marital love not merely as a means of sexual satisfaction, but sexual sanctification. Please use a different way to share. 2018-2021 Monergism by CPR Foundation. Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2008. He is their owner. 46:10-11; Ps. They crafted a timely, textual statement, and following our forefathers, it is Verity, not Victory, that is here contended for.[1] We must constantly bear in mind that marriage ultimately suffers distortion, dismissal, and assault because it says something about the person and work of Jesus. 3:14; Job 11:7-8; 26:14; Ps. Dishonoring marriage itself matters, too: 1 Tim 4:1-5 warns against forbidding what God approves, while 1 Cor 7:39 cautions against approving what God forbids. Small wonder, then, if preaching and counsel on marriage often reflects more exasperation than exposition. 4:15-16; Luke 24:39; Acts 14:11, 15; James God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the, Prov. porneia, a blanket term[49]) or some other creative means of disobedience, but it neither contains nor constitutes anything bringing glory to God. With complete freedom, the sick are visited and the poor relieved There is no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Were the Baptists trying to be original or were they trying to communicate something else? He created the earth, the stars, the atoms, spirits, angels, humans, animals, rocks, trees and things invisible to the naked eye. As a Baptist I have read the 1644 and 1689 w/o an exposition. What is Christs Active and Passive Obedience? The 1552 BCP adds the language of mutual society, help, and comfort (BCP, 363). For a discussion of how robust a confession of faith should be, seeB.H. The London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 with the Baptist Catechism eBook : Scalf, Brandon, Particular Baptists, Puritan, Keach, Benjamin: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store EducationXIII. Picture Information. In the name of diversity, reports parade people who married the Eiffel Tower, the Berlin Wall, a videogame character, themselves, and more: a duvet, Tetris, a ghost, a fairground ride, Jesus Multiple-adjective marriage is the new social norm, applying a growing number of descriptors like gay, straight, open, traditional, egalitarian, civil, shotgun, commonlaw, or solygamous to the institution. May 31 Of . What does it mean that God is immutable? An SBTS graduate, biblical counselor, and Th.D student in Puritan Studies, he has served in gospel ministry since 1998. What is God like? My main purpose was not to study the Confession per s, but to study the doctrines asserted by the Confession and to see if they were biblical. then is the faithful free, saith he, because he is forsaken of the unfaithful.. Psalms and hymns echo between the two. Truth's Victory Over Error: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith, Sponsored. 115:3; 135:6; Rev. First, giving great hope for struggling marriages, it portrays how Jesus changes lives and loves completely. Reformation and post-Reformation symbols feature loud denunciations contra sacramentalizing marriage; they overwhelmingly demonstrate marriage as a means of sanctifying grace, but not sacramental. Nehemiahs response, closing out the OT canon, bears no insinuation of putting away an unregenerate spouse after marriage (contra 1 Cor 7:10-13), but rather displays the consistency of the biblical witness that believers must marry only in the Lord (1 Cor 7:39). [5] 2LC, owning Baptist covenantalism, distances itself from WCF/Savoy in deleting paragraph 2s and the Church with an holy seed; assumes as obvious that Reformed theology is the true religion in paragraph 3; and subsumes Papists under the head of idolaters in paragraph 4. May 19 Of Saving Faith Brian Malcolm. First, Gen 2:18-23 teaches that he intends service mutual help[24] for both husband and wife. May 17. When Does Forgiveness Not Lead to Reconciliation? We welcome you to join us in our work to equip and encourage local churches. 1958), Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage. 1 Pet 3:1-6). One of the only commentaries on the 1689 LBC. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. The list promises expansion as those agitating to wed siblings, children, or pets progress in their quest. That the Baptists in article 31 seem to imply that the right to earthly possessions is founded in grace, not nature; 2. 3 covenants are introduced in Gen 2-3 (works, grace, and marriage). [37] The Second Helvetic Confession (1566), XXIX.2 says it quite boldly: we therefore condemn those who condemn [lawful] second marriages., [38] John Calvin (1509-1564), Commentary on 1 Corinthians, XX.240f. Christ rejoices when he sees and hears such things![51]. Faith and Thomas Vincent on the Shorter Catechism and enjoyed them. 4:34-35; Rom. This a very good commentary on the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. Jun 1 Of the Holy Scriptures Brian Malcolm. [28] For all the honor Scripture accords it, too much sex in marriage is possible. What are the threefold offices of Christ? For contemporary treatments, see Murray (1898-1975), Divorce; Adams (b. 1, Beginnings in Britain, and Spurrs English Puritanism 1603-1689 are informative. 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