Principles and Practices for Baptist Churches

This classic is organized as follows: 


I. A Christian Church 


II. Church Officers 


III. Church Ordinances 


IV. Church Membership 


V. Church Discipline 

Private Offenses 

Public Offenses 

VI. Cases of Appeal 

VII. Church Business 

Order of Business 

Rules of Order 


VIII. Christian Doctrine 

Articles of Faith 

Covenant 


IX. Optional Standing Resolutions 


X. Baptism Considered 

Meaning of the Word 

The Baptism of Jesus 

Much Water Needed 

Philip and the Eunuch 

The Testimony of Scholars 

Apostolical Allusions 

The Witness of History 

For Thirteen Centuries 

As to the Greek Church 

The Design of Baptism 

A Sufficiency of Water 

The Rise of Sprinkling 


XI. The Lord’s Supper 

Open and Close Communion 

One and the Same Rule 

The Baptist Position 

Pedobaptist Close Communion 

The Power of Sympathy 

Three Facts Explained 

Pedobaptist Witnesses 


XII. Infant Baptism 

Not of Scriptural Authority 

When Did It Rise? 

Why Did It Rise? 

Household Baptisms 


XIII. Church Government 


XIV. Church Officers