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Section 3 Flashcards

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What does BRAPSISS stand for?

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B - Bible, the sole authority for faith and practice
R - Regenerate and baptized church membership
A - Autonomy of the local church
P - Priesthood of the believer
S - Soul liberty
I - Immersion and the Lord’s Supper, the only two ordinances
S - Separation of church and state
S - Separation ethically and ecclesiastically

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What landmark Baptist confession was based on the Presbyterian Westminster Confession and became the basis for the later Philadelphia and New Hampshire confessions?

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The second London confession of 1689

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Who led in the adoption of congregational singing by the Particular Baptists?

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Benjamin Keach

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Discuss the life and ministry of John Bunyan.

Occupation, hometown, conversion, beliefs, arrest, publications, death

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He was a tinker from Elstow, near Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. He served in the civil war under Cromwell. He converted through his own study of Scriptures. He held to open communion and open membership. He was arrested in 1660 and spent 12 1/2 years in prison. He wrote Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, The Holy War, and The Pilgrim’s Progress. He died from pneumonia in 1688 at age 59.

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What legislation did Charles II push through after the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy? What was the effect of this legislation?

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The Clarendon Code. It required submission to the Anglican Church. Under this legislation, two thousand Puritan ministers and many Nonconformists suffered confiscation of goods, banishment, etc.

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What happened between 1688 and 1691 that brought religious liberty to Baptists in England?

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England, under the rule of William and Mary, embraced religious freedom with the Act of Toleration (1689) and the Bill of Rights (1691).

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What lesson did we draw from the English Baptist experience of the 17th century?

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The nature of the church was worth suffering for. Almost every Baptist pastor of the 17th century spent time in prison for his convictions. Despite these oppressive conditions, the denomination expanded and thrived.

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Discuss the life and ministry of Roger Williams.

Training, travels, views, evangelism, ministry.

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  1. Trained at Oxford and Cambridge then converted from Anglican to Puritan.
  2. Joined Winthrop’s Great Puritan Migration to America in 1631.
  3. Rejected position of Teacher in a church associated with the Anglican Church.
  4. Moved to Plymouth and evangelized the Native Americans. Translated Scriptures into their language.
  5. Returned to Salem and incorporated his radical views into his teachings.
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Discuss the life and ministry of Roger Williams.

Trial

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In fall of 1635, Williams was brought to trial on four charges.
1. He taught that the land belongs to the Natives and should be purchased from them.
2. He taught that wicked people cannot be required to be religious (soul liberty).
3. He taught that believers should separate absolutely from the Anglican Church, refusing to have any dealings with it (even if families would be split over it).
4. He taught that magistrates have authority only over the second table of the law (commandments 5-10).

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Discuss the life and ministry of Roger Williams.

Condemnation, settling down, convictions, separation, mediation, writings.

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  1. He was condemned to return to England in the spring, but he continued teaching and fled to the wilderness when arrest was attempted. (The natives helped him stay alive over the winter).
  2. He established Providence Plantation on Narragansett Bay in 1636 (on land he purchased from the Natives).
  3. He was convinced of believer’s baptism and established the first Baptist church in America in 1638.
  4. He left the church when he concluded his baptism was invalid, and believed all churches would be corrupt until Christ returned.
  5. He remained friendly with the Baptists, obtained a charter for the colony, served as governor, and a mediator for the Natives.
  6. He wrote a body of works about soul liverty, separation of church and state, religious liberty and limited democracy. His greatest work is The Bloody Tenant of Persecution.
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What happened to Obadiah Holmes during a visit to Lynn, MA, and what did he say as he was being whipped?

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He refused to have a fine, which he earned from preaching, payed for him, and was beaten instead. He said to his oppressors, “You have struck me as with roses.”

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Many General Baptists began drifting into what error in the early 18th century in England?

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Socinianism, an early form of Unitarianism.

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Many Particular Baptists began adopting what error at the same time?

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Hyper-Calvinism

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What are four tenets of Hyper-Calvinism according to Spurgeon?

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  1. It denies that the offer of salvation is universal (only for the elect).
  2. It denies that the command and promise of Scripture give a man warrent to believe (only evidence of the Spirit’s work gives you the right).
  3. It denies that sinners are responsible to trust Christ.
  4. It denies that God desires to save the non-elect.
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Who are three key non-Baptists through whom God brought revival to the Anglican Church?

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John Wesley
Charles Wesley
George Whitefield

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What was the name of Dan Taylor’s organization?

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Assembly of the Free Grace General Baptists; later, New Connection

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What was Andrew Fuller’s great theological treatise?

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Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation

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What was the dominant Baptist organization in America throughout the 18th century, and what was its confession of faith?

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Philadelphia Association; Philadelphia Confession of Faith

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What great 18th century revival propelled the Baptists to become a major Amerian denomination?

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The Great Awakening

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What are three reasons the Baptists were unsure how to respond to the Great Awakening?

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  1. The evangelists of the Great Awakening held to pedobaptism.
  2. Most American Baptists at this time were PBs, and they wondered if Whitefield and others were pure in their Calvinism.
  3. There was a certain amount of emotional response that sometimes led to excess.
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What was the Baptist association in New England? What committee did it form to support the Baptist fight for freedom?

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Warren Association; Grievance Committee

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In what region of the country did the Separate Baptists explode in numbers and influence?

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The South

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How did the Regular and Separate Baptists differ from one another in America?

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Regular Baptists
a) were wary of the revival,
b) held high educational standards,
c) organized church life around confessions of faith and theological precision, and
d) held to formal worship.

Separate Baptists
a) were pro-revival and aggressively evangelistic,
b) prefered experience and Spirit-work over educated ministry,
c) worshipped with spontineity and emotion, and
d) were less focused on doctrine.

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Brief Bio

  1. Isaac Backus (1724-1806)
  2. John Clarke (1609-1676)
  3. Henry Dunster (1609-1659)
  4. Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
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  1. American, New England, Congregationalist - Baptist, Grievance Committee
  2. American, New England, Ang - Pur - Sep - Cong - Bap, whipping incident, Ill News from New England
  3. American, New England, Puritan - Baptist, fired from Harvard
  4. American, New England, revival evangelist, “the foremost theologian of revival”
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Brief Bio

  1. Morgan Edwards (1722-1795)
  2. Andrew Fuller (1754-1815)
  3. John Gano (1727-1804)
  4. John Gill (1697-1771)
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  1. American, Philadelphia, Baptist Tory, Materials for a Hitsory of the Baptists in New England
  2. English, PB revival leader, rejected Hyper-Calvinism, Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation, Northamptonshire Ministerial Association
  3. American, New York, allegedly baptized Washington during the war
  4. English, London, A Body of Doctrinal Divinity, A Body of Practical Divinity, Hyper-Calvinist (Gillites)
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Brief Bio

  1. Thomas Goold (1619-1675)
  2. Elias Keach (1667-1701)
  3. William Kiffin (1616-1701)
  4. John Leland (1754-1841)
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  1. American, Charleston, Congregationalist - Baptist, refused his children be baptized as infants
  2. American immigrant, Pennsylvania, convicted and confessed after taking pastorate as a joke
  3. English, London, Puritan - Baptist, wealthy merchant, had connections with royalty, became leader of English PBs, debated Bunyan about communion
  4. American, Massechusetts - Virginia, Cong - Baptist, pushed politicians for a Bill of Rights for religious freedom, known as “Mammoth Priest” for his support of Jefferson with a 1235-lb cheese, wrote literature with Backus
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Brief Bio

  1. William Screven (1629-1713)
  2. Shubal Stearns (1706-1771)
  3. Dan Taylor (1738-1816)
  4. George Whitefield (1714-1770)
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  1. American, Maine, driven out of Maine by persecution from Massachusetts, first Baptist church in the South, Charleston, SC
  2. American, New England, became a New Light, Cong - Baptist, began a baptist church in Sandy Creek, NC
  3. English, Yorkshire, Methodist - Baptist, Assembly of the Free Grace General Baptists (New Connection)
  4. English (preached in America), revival leader, founded Bethesda Orphanage, friend of Benjamin Franklin
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Robert Browne was the first to publish the principles of what system of thought?

A. Baptist Puritanism
B. Puritanism
C. Independent Congregationalism
D. Presbyterianism

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C. Independent Congregationalism

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Which of the folliwing was not one of the points taught by Browne?

A. Persons join a local church by voluntary consent
B. Church is a covenanted community of believers
C. Each local church is a gathered assembly, separate from the parish church
D. The government has no authority over the spiritual affairs of the church
E. Each church is ruled by elders and pastors selected by the congregation

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E. Each church is ruled by elders and pastors selected by the congregation

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What is the main way Henry Jacob as a Separatist differed from Robert Browne?

A. Refused to condemn all Anglicans as apostates
B. Embraced believers baptism
C. Stayed in England rather than fleeing to the Netherlands
D. Was more personally likable

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A. Refused to condemn all Anglicans as apostates

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Who was the archbishop under King Charles I who persecuted the Puritans and all other nonconformists?

A. James Clarendon
B. Isaac Halderman
C. Robert Bancroft
D. William Laud

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D. William Laud

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Who were the Seekers?

A. Allies with the Baptists and Quakers in their struggle for freedom
B. Revolutionaries who worked to establish Christ’s kingdom on earth
C. People who rejected all visible churches
D. People who embraced all visible churches but committed to none of them

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C. People who rejected all visible churches

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What did George Fox, founder of the Quakers, look to as his primary religious authority?

A. Reason
B. Scripture
C. Inner light
D. Church

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C. Inner light

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons Beale calls the Quakers “the foremost religioius threat to General and Particular Baptist churches”?

A. They outnumbered the Baptists
B. Their theology was the closest to the Baptists among the nonconformists
C. They tried to win Baptists to their views
D. The authorities confused them with the Baptists

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B. Their theology was closest to the Baptists among the nonconformists

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What was the key idea of the Fifth Monarchist movement?

A. To establish the final kingdom promised in Daniel
B. To evangelize the world in their generation
C. To empower peasants and other lower class persons against government oppression
D. To establish a spiritual kingdom ruled over by Christ

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A. To establish the final kingdom promised in Daniel

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When Charles II came to the throne in 1660, what did Particular and General Baptists unite in doing in order to show their distance from the Fifth Monarchists?

A. Raised a contribution for him
B. Published a joint confession of faith
C. Signed a Millenary Petition of support for him
D. Issued The Humble Apology

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D. Issued The Humble Apology

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What happened to Henry Jessey of the JLJ Church by 1645?

A. Executed by William Laud
B. Sailed to America to pastor a church in Virginia
C. Returned to the Anglican Church after years of separation
D. Accepted immersion from the Baptists

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D. Accepted immersion from the Baptists

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How did Henry Jessey’s church (and, later, John Bunyan’s differ from most other English Baptist churches?

A. Practiced closed communion
B. Practiced open communion and membership
C. Had three offices rather than just pastors and deacons
D. Rejected both Calvinism and Arminianism

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B. Practiced open communication and membership

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Which of the following is not one of the three reasons people started leaving the JLJ church during the 1630s?

A. Many in the church were abandoning separatism
B. The church was without a pastor for several years
C. The church had gotten too large, which was dangerous
D. Many were embracing a Baptist view of believer’s baptism

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B. The church was without a pastor for several years

40
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Who was the pastor of the first Particular Baptist church in England?

A. John Bunyan
B. Hanserd Knollys
C. John Spilsbury
D. William Kiffin

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C. John Spilsbury

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How many Baptist churches had emerged from the JLJ church by 1644?

A. 3
B. 7
C. 12
D. 26

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B. 7

42
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When was the Baptist label first used?

A. 1596
B. 1623
C. 1638
D. 1644

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D. 1644

43
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Which of the following is not one of the charges leveled against Hanserd Knollys by the Westminster authorites?

A. Fifth-Monarchism
B. Hyper-Calvinism
C. Antinomianism
D. Quakerism
E. Anabaptism

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D. Quakerism

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What was the series of acts passed by Parliament in 1661-1665 that drove 2000 nonconformists out of their pulpits and issued in significant persecution?

A. Law of Jurisprudence
B. Westminster Edicts
C. Clarendon Code
D. Nonconformist Regulations

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C. Clarendon Code

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What event ended the suffering for the Baptists in England?

A. Revocation of the Westminster Edicts
B. William and Mary’s Act of Toleration
C. Publicatin of London Confession
D. Accession of Queen Anne

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B. William and Mary’s Act of Toleration

46
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What Baptist event was hosted by Knollys’s church in 1689?

A. First General Assembly of General Baptists
B. Westminster Edicts Revocation
C. First General Assembly of Particular Baptists
D. First Union Meeting of Particular and General Baptists

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C. First General Assembly of Particular Baptists

47
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Why was William Kiffin able to hold public offices and exercise influence in England despite the persecution against Baptists?

A. His education
B. His wealth
C. His personality
D. His friendship with the king

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B. His wealth

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What was the earliest Baptist institution of higher learning?

A. Gloucester School
B. Bristol Baptist Academy
C. London Bible Institute
D. Cambridge Baptist College

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B. Bristol Baptist Academy

49
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Why did Kiffin write a book defending closed (close, in our terminology) communion?

A. As a response to Anglican Daniel Featley
B. To generate revenue for the struggling Baptists
C. To refute the views of the General Baptists
D. To answer a book by John Bunyan

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D. To answer a book by John Bunyan

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What change did Benjamin Keach make in his theology through the influence of Knollys, Kiffin, and Norcott in the early 1670s?

A. Changed from Particular Baptist to General Baptist
B. Changed from General Baptist to Particular Baptist
C. Changed from Anglican to General Baptist
D. Changed from Quaker to Particular Baptist

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B. Changed from General Baptist to Particular Baptist

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What famous church was a successor of Keach’s church in Horsleydown?

A. Maclaren’s church in Manchester
B. Bristol Broadmead Church
C. The William Carey Church in Leicester
D. Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle

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D. Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle

52
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Whom does Beale call “the leading Baptist theologian of his era”?

A. Benjamin Keach
B. John Bunyan
C. Thomas Grantham
D. William Kiffin

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A. Benjamin Keach

53
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Why is Keach considered the “Father of English Hymnody”?

A. He introduced congregational singing to his church
B. He convinced Isaac Watts to write hymns
C. He put the Psalter to music
D. He wrote a theological treatise on the nature of biblical worship

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A. He introduced congregational sining to his church

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In what way did the Bedford Meeting of Pastor John Gifford differ from most Baptist churches at the time?

A. Open communion and open membership
B. Found biblical balance between Calvinism and Arminianism
C. It avoided persecution because of its remote location
D. Closed communion

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A. Open communion and open membership

55
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What happened to Bedford Meeting under the pastor who succeeded Bunyan?

A. Transitioned from General Baptist to Particular Baptist
B. Transitioned from Particular Baptist to General Baptist
C. Adopted infant baptism and became Congregationalist
D. Adopted closed communion and became more consistently Baptist

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C. Adopted infant baptism and became Congregationalist

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In what way has Bunyan exerted the most inflence of any 17th century Baptist?

A. Through his personal godliness and likable personality
B. Through his writings
C. Through his powerful preaching
D. Through his refutation of closed communion

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B. Through his writings

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What was the general context in London that caused the Particular Baptists to think they needed to publish a confession of faith?

A. They were being confused with Anglicans and included in parish activities
B. They were being regarded as Fifth Monarchy rebels
C. They were being lumped in with Anabaptists and accused of being revolutionaries
D. They were being confused with Quakers

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C. They were being lumped in with Anabaptists and accused of being revolutionaries

58
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Which of the following is not one of the purposes of the First London Confession?

A. To distinguish Particular Baptists from both General Baptists and Anabaptists
B. To clarify the unique contributions of Baptist theology
C. To combat accusations that all Baptists were either Arminians or Pelagians

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B. To clarify the unique contributions of Baptist theology

59
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Which of the following is not one of the ways the London Confession distinguishes Baptists from English Separatists?

A. It teaches Calvinism and congregationalism
B. It teaches beliver’s baptism by immersion
C. It teaches separation of Church and State

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A. It teaches Calvinism and congregationalism

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Which of the following is not one of the purposes of the Second London Confession?

A. To answer the open communion teachings of John Bunyan
B. To combat the heresies of Thomas Collier
C. To combat Quakerism
D. To combat hyper-Calvinism
E. To establish a united front with Presbyterians and Congregationalists
F. To combat Seventh-Day Sabbatarianism

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A. To answer the open communion teachings of John Bunyan

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