Why I am a Baptist

 

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Origin of the Baptists

Chapter 2 History of the Baptists

Chapter 3 Standing and Number of the Baptists

Chapter 4 The Doctrine of the Church

Baptist Creed

Chapter 5 Baptism

Water Essential to Baptism

The Meaning of the Word BAPTIZO

The Practice of the Early Churches

Modern Testimonials

The Object of Baptism

Baptism NOT Essential to Salvation

Immersion in Water Essential to Obedience

Objections to Immersion

Objections to Being Rebaptized

“But I do not wish to become a Baptist”

-Chapter 6 Baptistries

Chapter 7 Infant Baptism

Reasons Advanced for Infant Baptism

The Promise to you and your Children

The Evils of Infant Baptism

1. Secularizing the Churches

 2. Union of Church and State

3. It Encourages false views of baptism

4. It injures the children

4. Infant baptism fosters prejudices

Chapter 8 The Lord's Supper

Prerequisites to the Lord's Supper

1. Preach to all men the gospel

2. Baptize all that believe

3. Then teach them all things whatsoever Christ has commanded

“But it is the Lord’s table”

Who puts up the bars?

Evils of “open communion”

Some questions answered

“But it will promote growth and union”

Chapter  The Church

Church worship

Chapter 10 Baptism in the New Testament

1. Passages relating to the mission, preaching and baptizing of John the Baptist

2. The baptism of Jesus from the four gospels

3. Christ baptizing by His disciples

4. What Jesus thought of John and his baptism

5. Christ speaks of his suffering under the figure of “a baptism”

6. Christ’s commission to His disciples

7. Baptism in the Acts of the Apostles

8. Baptism in the Epistles