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* FB Meyer - Protestant Baptist - Also one quote in graphic
* Baptist historian JT Christian on Baptist Protestants 
* Isaac Case and John Gano and other Protestant Baptists
*  Benjamin Keach on Protestant Baptists
* The Protestant Baptists of Boston
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* Baptist Historian Richard Crook on Protestant Baptists
* Baptist Historian Henry Burridge on Protestant Baptists
* Baptist Abraham Booth professing the Protestant religion
* Baptist Historian David Benedict and Protestant Baptists
* The framers of the 1689 Baptist Confession professing Protestantism
* The 1678 Baptists professing Protestantism 
* Here ye then what The Trail of Blood Saith
* Baptist Historian, Burleson, pleading with God to send Protestant preachers
* By the rivers of Babylon - Are Baptists Protestants? 
* James Ireland (VA) Baptist Protestant
* Cotton Mather on Colonial Protestants all working together
* North Carolina Baptist Protestants 



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 Click here for the 1689 Baptist Confession (Calvinist)


"This little volume is not issued as an authoritative rule, or code of faith, whereby you are to be fettered, but as an assistance to you in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness. Here the younger members of our church will have a body of divinity in small compass, and by means of the Scriptural proofs, will be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in them. Be not ashamed of your faith; remember it is the ancient gospel of martyrs, confessors, reformers and saints. Above all, it is the truth of God, against which the gates of Hell cannot prevail. Let your lives adorn your faith, let your example adorn your creed. Above all live in Christ Jesus, and walk in Him, giving credence to no teaching but that which is manifestly approved of Him, and owned by the Holy Spirit. Cleave fast to the Word of God which is here mapped out for you."

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"The arch-enemy of truth has invited us to level our walls and take away our fenced cities. He has cajoled some truehearted but weak-headed believers to advocate this crafty policy 'Away with creeds and bodies of divinity!' This is the cry of the day. Ostensibly, it is reverence for the Bible, and attachment to charity which dictates the clamorous denunciation; but at the bottom it is hatred of definitive truth. As Philip of Macedon hated the Grecian orators because they were watchdogs of the flock, so there are wolves who desire the destruction of our doctrinal formularies, that they may make havoc of the souls of men by their pestilent heresies."




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Olive Maxwell (nee Scott), Dr Ian Paisley, Colin Maxwell

I wrote a short piece about Dr. Ian Paisley on his passing last week. I looked high and low for the photograph to the left, but couldn't find it. It finally turned up yesterday. It was taken in Bethany Free Presbyterian Church in Portadown (Co. Armagh) sometime around 1987 when yours truly and his new wife (or wife to be, depending on the precise dates) both graduated from the Free Presbyterian Church's, Whitefield College of the Bible. Dr Paisley served as the President of the WCB. Dr. Paisley preached an encouraging Graduation sermon from Psalm 48:14 "For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death." 

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    We thank God for a history so full of thrilling deeds. But it is not for Baptists to turn their eyes to the past. They are to take inspiration from the things already accomplished, and onward press their way. Mr. Froude said: "The Baptists were the most thorough going of all the Protestant sects."



*  JT Christian on the faithful Calvinism of the Baptists 

 * Introduction to my Spurgeon Protestantism Project

* CH Spurgeon, self professed Protestant

 * Spurgeon Protestantism Index (Ongoing work in progress)
* CH Spurgeon scorn for those who attack Protestantism  

* FB Meyer - Protestant Baptist - Also one quote in graphic
* The creed of CH Spurgeon (Graphic)

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PROTESTANT HISTORY:

MARTYRDOM OF ROBERT FERRAR

I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. (Psalm 78:2-4)

INTRODUCTION: BIBLE PROTESTANTISM HAS A GLORIOUS HISTORY. It is an epic story of a deadly struggle from under the heel of the Roman system to the glorious liberty of the sons of God. In our ecumenical and apostate age, this story needs to be retold that the battle may continue. This is the eighteenth of a number of posts (hence entitled: Protestant19) and is just another shot fired in this great battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. We are deliberately aiming at brevity, leaving it to other works (listed later) to satisfy any hunger for further information. These pages may therefore be viewed as tasty appetisers. May God give us the faith of these old Protestants who loved not their lives unto death and of whom, the world in its sin, was not worthy. 

Robert Ferrar

BISHOP ROBERT FERRAR  ( -1555)
 

The Bishop of St David's in Wales was burned on the 30th March 1555 at Carmathen because of his evangelical Protestant faith. He was one of the signatories to a famous protestation drawn up in the prison, which, among other things, denounced the mass "to be Antichrist's doctrine." Perhaps not one of the better known of the five martyred Marian Bishops, neverthless known to God and one who will receive the martyrs crown, loving not his life unto death. 

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PROTESTANT HISTORY: 

BLOODY MARY'S PERSECUTIONS

I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. (Psalm 78:2-4)

INTRODUCTION: BIBLE PROTESTANTISM HAS A GLORIOUS HISTORY. It is an epic story of a deadly struggle from under the heel of the Roman system to the glorious liberty of the sons of God. In our ecumenical and apostate age, this story needs to be retold that the battle may continue. This is the sixteeth of a number of posts (hence entitled: Protestant16) and is just another shot fired in this great battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. We are deliberately aiming at brevity, leaving it to other works (listed later) to satisfy any hunger for further information. These pages may therefore be viewed as tasty appetisers. May God give us the faith of these old Protestants who loved not their lives unto death and of whom, the world in its sin, was not worthy. 

 
MARTYRDOM OF THE BISHOPS UNDER BLOODY MARY

Bloody Mary

If all things truly do work together for good to them who love God (Romans 8:28) then… IT WAS A GOOD DAY when the Church of England bishops were burnt at the stake during the reign of Bloody Mary.  Mary was a bigoted Roman Catholic who sought to strangle the new Reformation faith in England. During the last four years of Mary's reign, no less than two hundred and eighty eight Protestants were burned for refusing to embrace the heresies of Rome. No less than five of these martyrs were Bishops. However, as always, the blood of the martyrs proved to be the seed of the church.

* Spurgeon on the martyrdom of 'our Protestant forefathers' (Graphic)


Appropriate pages to explain how God can justly make the wrath of man to praise Him without incurring any guilt:  Calvinism vehemently denying that God is the author of sin



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  It is hard to make Christian people understand that there is a Union of professed Christians, which receives into its fellowship persons of any creed, or no creed, so long as they have been baptized.  (CH Spurgeon)

This quote from Spurgeon came back to mind recently on the strength of a tweet by my friend #Wylie. #Wylie and I share a mutual friend in the person of Texan evangelist, BH Carroll. In fact, it was #Wylie who effectively introduced me to him. I might have seen Carroll's name floating round the strait and narrow side of Church history before, but I knew very little about him at all. Indeed, I first thought he was the man who wrote “The Trail of Blood” (which I was given by a zealous Baptist friend in his youthful days and which I still have somewhere in my library) and of which I make some not totally unrelated observations here. But the writer of the Trail  was actually BH’s youngest brother, JH Carroll. To be honest, #Wylie gushes more about BH Carroll than I do.  He described BHC’s commentary and sermons as a “goldmine” and the author himself as a “Baptist Giant” and a “genius.”  Let’s say that there are other men I would gush about first, but no disrespect to BHC whatsoever.

In his tweet, #Wylie quotes our mutual friend, BHC, as saying:

"Less creed (doctrine) & more liberty, is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellfish, and means less unity and less morality." (BH Carroll)

And it is here that Spurgeon’s quote came to mind. CHS complained that there were men in the Baptist Union and the only thing they seemed to agree on is that the believer should be baptised. The God/god they should believe in (whatever that means) was an open matter, but the believer should be baptised. Lest there should be any misunderstanding, the angle which CHS came from with this quote is radically different and more serious than the angle I am drawing here, but the principle remains the same.

Let’s develop this. #Wylie, BHC and I share the same fundamental doctrines of the faith e.g. the Deity and Virgin Birth of Christ, the verbal inspiration of the Bible, the atoning death and resurrection of Christ, the necessity of the New Birth etc. So, as long as we keep to these fundamental doctrines, we could all sit happily round the same table.

Unfortunately for #Wylie, if the conversation turns to Calvinism, then he must let me have BHC all to myself in this triumvirate. BHC and I both profess Calvinism, although mine is the 5 point variety while BHC (as I read him) struggled with the teaching of Particular Redemption. Yet, for all that, that he openly described himself as a Calvinist among the nuggets in his commentary, and I’m not about to call him a liar. OTOH, my friend #Wylie is not a #Calvinist and says all kinds of nasty things about Calvinists which are documented elsewhere.

I also have BHC all to myself when it comes to Protestantism. BHC described himself and others of his school as “only technically Protestants” which, in the standard use of English, still makes him technically a {cough} Protestant. I don’t do word games when it comes to these things, so BHC and I are two professed Protestants, while my friend #Wylie is heard to mutter something about “the daughter of the Roman Catholic church” which is based on Revelation 17. I’ve heard this kind of 'oul guff' before from some of our Plymouth Brethren friends, but I won’t develop it here. Come back later and click here if you really want to see how silly that one tends to be.

Negatively, BHC and I get together, again to the exclusion of friend #Wylie, in our rejection of Pre Millennialism in general and Dispensationalism in particular.   “I don’t believe a word of it” says the Baptist Giant and I tend to agree with him.

Where I might feel just a teeny weeny bit left out is when friend #Wylie and BHC have a Baptist get-together. Alas! I do not ascribe to autonomous church government (I am an Acts 15 Presbyterian myself) and I see the act of baptism as more important than the mode.

It is this last point i.e. the Baptist get-together that reminded me of Spurgeon’s observation. As said above, the angle is different, but still it is there. You see, #Wylies only contact with BHC where I as a Calvinist/Fundamentalist cannot join in with a heart and a half relates to (wait for it…) Baptist church polity. #Hello? Hardly earth shattering is it? Unless only Baptists go to Heaven while Hell opens wide her hungry mouth to receive all the rest of us.  Since BHC preached and co-operated with Protestants from all different denominations, I can’t see him running with that idea. I assume #Wylie doesn’t either. Interesting isn’t it?

 To access an online copy of BHC’s Calvinist and Protestant goldmine commentary on the English Bible, click here while some of his Calvinist and Protestant sermons are to be found here.  Here and there, you do get some decidedly Baptist tenets, but I can live with that. Can you live with his strong Calvinist expositions of the grace of God that puts sinful man in the dust where he belongs and God rightly on His throne, dispensing mercy to whom He will? I guess I could sit with greater ease and  longer with BHC at the table than any one of my friend #Wylie's school.

* Click here for more of Spurgeon on the Downgrade
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* Click here for why Spurgeon has the Twittering Anti Calvinists  round his wee finger


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PROTESTANT HISTORY:

THE CONVERSION OF ULRICH ZWINGLI

I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. (Psalm 78:2-4)

 

INTRODUCTION: BIBLE PROTESTANTISM HAS A GLORIOUS HISTORY. It is an epic story of a deadly struggle from under the heel of the Roman system to the glorious liberty of the sons of God. In our ecumenical and apostate age, this story needs to be retold that the battle may continue. This is the thirteenth of a number of posts (hence entitled: Protestant13) and is just another shot fired in this great battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. We are deliberately aiming at brevity, leaving it to other works (listed later) to satisfy any hunger for further information. These pages may therefore be viewed as tasty appetisers. May God give us the faith of these old Protestants who loved not their lives unto death and of whom, the world in its sin, was not worthy. 

 ULRICH ZWINGLI  (1484-1531) - HIS CONVERSION

ULRICH ZWINGLI OF ZURICH

IT WAS A GOOD DAY when this Swiss Reformer sought and found the Lord. Born into the darkness of Rome, He came to know the Lord through reading the Bible and also perusing the early Church Fathers and also the books of Wycliffe and Huss. These all served to strengthen his conviction that Rome had seriously departed from the word of God. He preached the gospel mightily in Zurich and gained himself the name of being a good pastor when he remained in the city during a severe plague. He successfully opposed the Bishop of Constance over the matter of fasting during Lent and won a vital debate on the matter which ensured the gospel would continue to be preached in the city. He finally died on the battle field.

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