Section 4

Question 1

Which of the following is not one of the three reasons the Particular Baptists decreased in size during the 18th century?

A. Isolated churches
B. Persecution
C. Controversies led to factionalism
D. Hyper-Calvinism

Answer 1

B. Persecution

Question 2

As of 1748 what was John Gill the first person to do?

A. Write a systematic theology used at Oxford and Cambridge
B. Pastor a Baptist church with attendance over 1000
C. Serve as a Baptist missionary on the Continent of Africa
D. Produce a verse-by-verse exposition of the entire Bible in the English language

Answer 2

D. Produce a verse-by-verse exposition of the entire Bible in the English language

Question 3

Which of the following describes the system of theology advanced by Tobias Crisp and John Gill?

A. Semi-Pelagianism
B. Infralapsarianism
C. Legalism
D. Hyper-Calvinism

Answer 3

D. Hyper-Calvinism

Question 4

Which of the following was not one of the Baptist preachers in this chapter who refused to offer the gospel to all sinners?

A. John Sergeant
B. John Skepp
C. John Brine
D. John Gill

Answer 4

A. John Sergeant

Question 5

What was “the modern question” debated in the 18th century?

A. Is saving faith a duty?
B. Did God predestine who would be saved?
C. What is the order of God’s eternal decrees?
D. Does man have free will?

Answer 5

A. Is saving faith a duty?

Question 6

Humanly speaking, what kept Andrew Fuller from trusting Christ before he did?

A. Hyper-Calvinism
B. Poor testimony of Christians
C. Arminianism
D. His sinful lifestyle

Answer 6

A. Hyper-Calvinism

Question 7

What is the story behind the hymn “Blest Be the Tie That Binds”?

A. John Fawcett lost his children in a storm at sea
B. Invited to become a pastor in London, John Fawcett couldn’t bear to leave his church
C. John Fawcett was preaching through the Psalms and decided to put Psalm 114 to music
D. After arriving in London at his new pastorate, John Fawcett wrote this hymn to commemmorate his new church family

Answer 7

B. Invited to become a pastor in London, John Fawcett couldn’t bear to leave his church

Question 8

What book by Johnathan Edwards influenced Fuller away from hyper-Calvinism?

A. Freedom of the Will
B. A Treatise on the Religious Affections
C. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
D. Original Sin

Answer 8

A. Freedom of the Will

Question 9

Fuller published what book in 1785, which taught evangelical Calvinism, rejecting both hyper-Calvinism and Armenianism?

A. A Full Gospel Primer
B. Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things
C. The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation
D. Awake, Thou That Sleepest

Answer 9

C. The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation

Question 10

Which of the following is not part of Fuller’s “twofold axiom” about the practical outworking of his theology?

A. Infinite sufficiency of Christ’s sacrificial work
B. Incalculable value of a human soul
C. Indiscriminate preaching of the gospel

Answer 10

B. Incalculable value of a human soul

Question 11

What advice does Fuller give when the Bible appears to teach two contradictory propositions?

A. Adopt the side that best leads to fulfillment of the Great Commission
B. Adopt the side that brings most glory to God
C. Embrace both as true and consistent
D. Interpret the difficult passage in light of the clearer passage

Answer 11

C. Embrace both as true and consistent

Question 12

What was the religious path taken by Carey?

A. Anglican to Presbyterian to Baptist
B. Anglican to Quaker to Baptist
C. Presbyterian to Congregationalist to Baptist
D. Anglican to Congregationalist to Baptist

Answer 12

D. Anglican to Congregationalist to Baptist

Question 13

What did God use to first “engage Carey’s mind” to think of missions?

A. The preaching of Andrew Fuller
B. Reading the works of Jonathan Edwards
C. Reading the Voyages of Captain Cook
D. Studying a map of the world hanging in his shop

Answer 13

C. Reading the Voyages of Captian Cook

Question 14

What book did Carey write in 1792, which became “his most enduring work”?

A. The Life of David Brainerd
B. An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
C. Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things
D. The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation

Answer 14

B. An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens

Question 15

What sermon did Carey preach at the May 1792 meeting of the Northamption Association?

A. An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens
B. Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things
C. The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation
D. Let Us Run and Not Grow Weary

Answer 15

B. Expect Great Things; Attempt Great Things

Question 16

What important event for missions occurred in Kettering in October 1792?

A. Founding of the Baptist Missionary Society
B. First contact made with Dr. John Thomas of Bengal
C. Ordination of William Carey to gospel ministry
D. Establishment of a monthly day of prayer for missions

Answer 16

A. Founding of the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS)

Question 17

Who was the first secretary of the BMS, serving it faithfully for many years?

A. William Carey
B. John Ryland
C. John Sutcliff
D. Andrew Fuller

Answer 17

D. Andrew Fuller

Question 18

Why was it, humanly speaking, very bad timing when Carey and Thomas requested licences to sail to India as missionaries?

A. War had just broken out between Britain and India
B. Hyper-Calvinism had taken over the London churches
C. Parliament had just ruled against missions in India
D. A monsoon had just destroyed the few mission outposts in northeastern India

Answer 18

C. Parliament had just ruled against missions in India

Question 19

Why did Carey and the team of reinforcements that arrived in 1799 settle in Serampore?

A. Indians in Calcutta were not responsive
B. It was strategicaly located halfway between Bombay and Calcutta
C. There was a printing establishment already working in Serampore
D. Rejected by British, they were invited by the Danish governor

Answer 19

D. Rejected by the British, they were invited by the Danish governor

Question 20

How long did the Careys minister in India before Krishna Pal, their first convert, came to Christ?

A. 7 months
B. 5 years
C. 7 years
D. 29 years

Answer 20

C. 7 years

Question 21

Which of the following was not part of the threefold purpose of the Carey team?

A. Improvement of Indian culture
B. Evangelism
C. Baptist-Anglican Relations
D. Edification

Answer 21

C. Baptist-Anglican Relations

Question 22

Who was the pastor of New Park Street Church for over sixty years and laid the foundation for Spurgeon’s pastorate there?

A. John Gifford
B. John Shakeseare
C. John Rippon
D. John Gill

Answer 22

C. John Rippon

Question 23

What was the name of the new building that New Park Street Church moved into in 1861?

A. Crystal Palace
B. London Cathedral
C. Metropolitan Tabernacle
D. New Park Street Temple

Answer 23

C. Metropolitan Tabernacle

Question 24

What was the only requirement for a church to join the Baptist Union after 1873?

A. Belief in the Trinity
B. Congregational polity
C. Practice of baptism by immersion
D. Identified by the name “Baptist”

Answer 24

C. Practice of baptism by immersion

Question 25

What does the name “Down Grade” mean?

A. Liberal college professors getting failing grades theologically
B. God sending judgment down on the churches
C. Churches sliding down into heresy
D. Spurgeon removing his church from the Union

Answer 25

C. Churches sliding down into heresy

Question 26

What two organizations merged in 1891, signaling that doctrine no longer mattered?

A. Baptist Missionary Society and the Baptist Union
B. Baptist Union and the New Connection
C. Baptist Missionary Society and the New Connection
D. Particular Baptist Society and General Baptist Union

Answer 26

B. Baptist Union and the New Connection