Pilgrim wrote:-
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The document from which you quoted and upon which you evidently have established your view that any disciple may baptize is a spurious document written by a very small schismatic group of hyper-Calvinists who also denied the doctrine of the Trinity as formulated in the Nicene Creed. This group openly rejected the teachings of the Reformers, Puritans, etc.

I am sorry to say that you show a shameful ignorance of the early Baptists. FYI, the only two signatories to the 1644/6 confession who were then living also signed the 1689 Confession (Kiffin & Knollys). Also, the 1646 confession is largely based on William Ames' Marrow of Theology, especially that part that deals with the Trinity.

FWIW, I am a subscriber to the 1689 Confession and see no substantial difference between them.
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I. Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of positive and sovereign institution, appointed by the Lord Jesus, the only lawgiver, to be continued in His church to the end of the world.[1]

1. Matt. 28:19-20; I Cor. 11:26

II. These holy appointments are to be administered by those only who are qualified and thereunto called, according to the commission of Christ.[2]

2. Matt. 28:19; I Cor. 4:1
Amen! Exactly so.

Steve Owen

Itinerant Preacher & Bible Teacher in Merrie England.
1689er.
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