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CREEDS, CONFESSIONS, COVENANTS AND CONSTITUTIONS


     The modern cry: "Less creed and more liberty," is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy. Definitive truth does not create heresy - it only exposes and corrects. Shut off the creed and the Christian world would fill up with heresy unsuspected and uncorrected, but none the less deadly.
- B. H. Carroll, An Interpretation of the English Bible, Ephesians 4.
Creeds and Confessions
American Baptist Memorial, 1856
Basil Manly, Editor

B. H. Carroll on Creeds and Confessions

Baptists, the Bible and confessions -
The need for statements of faith

by Gregory A. Wills

The Use of Confessions of Faith in Baptist History
By Steve Weaver
A PDF Link

Why a Seventeenth-Century Baptist Used the Creeds
By Steve Weaver, Frankfort, Kentucky

Columbia Baptist Church (OH)
Articles of Faith, 1790
The First Church in the Northwest Territory

The Constitution of the Columbus Baptist Association (OH)
At the Time of its Organization, 1818

Franklin (KY) Baptist Association
Circular Letter, 1826
[The Importance of a Creed]
By Elder Silas M. Noel

Pealing a Pretense
(A Review of an Essay by a SBC Church Covenant Critic)
By Rosco Brong, Former Dean, 1969
Lexington Baptist College, KY


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