That Particular Baptist

The distinction between "absolute certainty" and "moral certainty" is an important one to remember in conversations regarding the subjects of baptism.

The righteousness of Christ is the righteous Christ himself.

@espinoza_dy Yes. youtu.be/keNJXJ3c2vY?si…

Seriously though do Reformed folks ever share their testimony?

“True spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who in uncircumcision was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ.” - Justin Martyr

New books coming this year. 💯 More to come. 🚀 Pre-orders available in due course. ✅

@RevivedThoughts Sovereign Grace O'er Sin Abounding youtu.be/eCCkU8ClpEg?si…

@RevivedThoughts Hymn: Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness (pictured version) Tune: Winchester New

What hymn do you want sung at your funeral?

If the transition from the Atoning Sacrifice to the Intercession is such as we have attempted to establish; if the intercession is simply the same official action carried forward in is triumph from the field of suffering… into that of exaltation …-fundamentally the same…

…terrible ordeal of the cross, it should emerge with its limits enormously contracted; …Does this look like a triumph of grace? Does a king count a campaign glorious from which he emerges with a narrower national territory than before?

Exhaustless source of every good, Apply the Saviour's cleansing blood; Thy gracious visits, Lord repeat, And still conduct me near thy seat.' - Benjamin Beddome

'Sins long forgot come fresh to mind, Oppressive now, no peace I find; Like a poor captive held in chains, My struggles but encrease my pains.

Indeed, if we be not desirous of holding Christ, it is a sign that we never found him.' - Benjamin Beddome

'A cottage, a wilderness, a prison, a dungeon will do, with Christ's presence, but a palace, a kingdom, a paradise, nay heaven itself will not do without it. An awakened sinner desires Christ on any terms, and a true believer would not part with him on any terms.

@monkofjustice Thanks for answering my questions. It's much appreciated.

@ParticularBapt I haven't had any of the hardcovers fall apart in years of use. That being said, I'm pretty careful with my books. Your results may vary. I don't buy a lot of books from this publisher, but they used to be well priced and enabled me to read some classics in hard copy.

Since some have asked how they too can can an early modern replica/reprent, this is the place to go: gyanbooks.com

'I might here put you in mind, that not one of the ancients, or any of our reformed divines, ever disputed the character of a redeemer as belonging to Christ, and I think you are one of the first, and I hope will be the last who shall be suffered to oppose it.' - Samuel Wilson

@monkofjustice Is the binding any good?

@ParticularBapt Here's a picture of a book within reach from this company. Not one of the deluxe editions; I usually order the hardback version.

Herman Witsius against Le Blanc on Justification: A certain learned divine of ours, in a volume of disputations lately published, speaks thus...And a little later: "Yea, since we affirm, that faith alone justifies, we do not intend, that the alone act of believing, taken precisely as it is opposed to acts of love and hope, and distinguished from repentance, is the condition which the new covenant or the gospel requires, in order to obtain remission of sin, and be absolved from them on account of Christ. For the hope of pardon, and love to God, sorrow also for sin, and purpose of a new life; in a word, all the acts requisite to a genuine and serious conversion, are also somewhat necessary, and altogether prerequisite, in order for any to be received into the favour of God, and from thenceforward to be accounted a justified person; yea, that a living faith that works by love, which we affirm alone to justify, includes and implies all these things." And the learned person imagines these are such truths, as the doctors both of the Romish and reformed schools receive with common consent. He also adds: "As often as the apostle affirms, that we are not justified by works, but by faith, he intends nothing else, but that none can, on any account, be justified by such observance of the law as the legal covenant requires, in order to obtain life thereby, and escape the curse of God: but that God accounts as righteous, and out of mere grace freely forgives all the sins of those, who with sincerity receive the gospel, and from faith perform obedience thereto." These things justly call for our animadversion. 1st, With this very learned person's leave, I doubt whether he can persuade any, who is not altogether unskilled in theological matters, that what he has proposed, is the received opinion of the reformed school. I find nothing of this in their confessions and catechisms; but there is a great deal, which does not differ much from the words of the learned person, in the writings of those, whose unhappy names and heretical principles, I from my very heart believe are detestable to him. 2dly, When the discourse is about the relation which faith bears to justification, the learned person does not seem with sufficient caution, to repeat so often the act of believing. For, it is well known, that the reformed churches condemned Arminius and his followers, for saying that faith comes to be considered in the matter of justification, as a work or act of ours... 4thly, Neither is it according to the mind of the reformed church, that the acts of hope and love, nay, all those which are required to a true and serious conversion, are included in justifying faith as justifying, and concur with faith, strictly so called, to justification.... 5thly, Some time ago I read in Socinus, before the sentiments of this celebrated person came to hand, the same exception which he makes, that by the works which Paul excludes from justification, is understood the perfect observance of the law, such as the legal covenant requires..... [m]y design was only to warn those under my care, and who may reap benefit by the very learned labours of this person, with considerable increase of knowledge, against these and the like expressions; in which, through a disgust for controversy, and a too eager desire of laying disputes aside, he seems to yield rather too much to our adversaries. Peace, indeed, is to be pursued, but by no means at the expense of truth. —Witsius, Economy of Covenants, Book 3, Chapter 8, §49 ff.

@monkofjustice Did you get the deluxe edition or was it the super deluxe edition? Would you mind sharing a picture of one of them?

@JonMcK1647 Have gotten most of my Jeremy Taylor from them - great prices!

@JonMcK1647 @sambostock Is this the deluxe edition or the super deluxe edition?

@sambostock They get the scan PDF of the work online then crop it to the proper size. Here is the company: gyanbooks.com They also have book listings on Amazon and EBay.

My in laws may have got me the best Christmas gift ever. Turns out you can just get a nice reprint of Baxter’s Catholick Theologie from India and no one can stop you.

Particular/Reformed Baptist Grew in Pentecostal (Christ Faith Tabernacle and TREM) and Charismatic churches (Newfrontiers)