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As there is no difference in doctrine between what are called Missionary
Baptists and what are called Anti-mission Baptists, I notice only that which
really divides them — missions, education, support of pastors and other
religious enterprises. To be sure, the Anti-mission Baptists have often run the
doctrine of Divine Sovereignty and Election into fanaticism and other errors.
But the Regular Baptists, by the Arminians among them, have equalled their
errors. So neither can well throw up errors of doctrine to the other.
I conclude this part of the chapter in the language of David Benedict, “a
leading Baptist historian:”
“Old School and Primitive Baptists are appellations so entirely out of place
that I cannot, as a matter of courtesy, use them without adding, so-called, or
some such expression. I have seen so much of the missionary spirit among the
old Anabaptists, Waldenses and other ancient sects — so vigorous and
perpetual were the efforts of those Christians, whom we claim as Baptists, in
the early, middle and late ages, to spread the gospel in all parts of the world,
among all nations and languages where they could gain access, that it is plain
that those who merely preach up predestination, and do nothing, have no
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claim to be called by their name.”
Turning to the Freewill “Baptists,” in the foregoing chapters we have seen that
Baptists of past ages have been what are denominated “Calvinistic” Baptists.
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The “Communion Question” being one fundamental difference between the
Freewill “Baptists” and the Regular Baptists, I will briefly notice it. The
Baptist Confession, of 1643, printed in London, Anno 1646 “reads that,
disciples” ought to be baptized, and after to partake of the Lord’s Supper.” f1032
The Confession of 1689 reads:
“Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances of positive and sovereign
institution, appointed by the Lord Jesus, the only law giver, to be continued in
his church to the end of the world … to be administered by those who are
qualified and thereunto called according to the commission of Christ.” f1033
Replying to an open communionist, an anonymous critical historian, f1034 in the
Examiner, near twenty years ago, said:
“They cannot bring a single Confession of Faith from all Baptist history
before the rise of the Free-will Baptists, about one hundred years ago,”
to prove that Baptists were formerly open communionists.
“They can bring only one in all that history which appears to prove it, and
that one excluded Arminians from communion, hence would exclude the
authors or the main author of these assertions. All the Continental Baptist