Principles and Practices for Baptist Churches - Edward T. Hiscox

Principles and Practices for Baptist Churches

By Edward T. Hiscox

  • Release Date: 2015-05-20
  • Genre: Christianity

Description

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

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