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  "\"Every denomination operates under some concept of spiritual authority, however vague or unbiblical it may be. Baptists often describe their churches as spiritual democracies. This is a true statement, but it can be dangerously misunderstood. Christ rules in His church, and He rules through His Word.<br><br>R. Albert Mohler, Jr.",
  "\"In 1887 the <i>Alabama Baptist</i> wrote, \'Baptist churches have no use for those who do not believe their doctrines.\' They wanted no spouse-followers as members but only those who came from \'a conviction of duty, and because they believe Baptists hold the truth as it is in Christ.\'<br><br><i>The Christian Index</i> responded, \'Sound to the core.\' If they are not of us then they should not be among us was the sentiment. The editor told an anecdote of a woman he persuaded to join the Presbyterians because she wanted to join the Baptists only out of preference. Church membership, however, at least in a Baptist church, \'is not a matter of preference, but a matter of conscience. We want no members except those who cannot conscientiously go anywhere  else.\'\"\n\nfrom <i>Why I Am A Baptist</i>",
  "\"In short, the doctrine of election states that - before the foundation of the world - God chose certain individuals to salvation and ordained the means by which they are saved.<br><br>In short, limited atonement affirms that Jesus Christ in dying bore the sins of His people, enduring all the punishment that was due to them by becoming the curse that the law demanded. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him for this purpose, for in so doing he gained - by his meritorious death - forgiveness, righteousness, sanctification, and eternal glory for a large and definite number of people, all of whom He knew and to whom He was joined before the foundation of the world.\"<br><br>Thomas J. Nettles",
  "\"Are You a Calvinist? If you mean by a rigid Calvinist, one who is fierce, dogmatical, and censorious, and ready to deal out anathemas against all who differ from him, I hope I am no more such a one than I am a rigid Papist. But, as to the doctrines which are now stigmatized by the name of Calvinism, I cannot well avoid the epithet rigid, while I believe them: for there seems to be no medium between holding them and not holding them; between ascribing salvation to the will of man, or the power of God; between grace and works, Romans, 11:6.; between being found in the righteousness of Christ, or in my own, Philippians, 3:9. Did the harsh consequences often charged upon the doctrine called Calvinistic really belong to it, I should have much to answer for if I had invented it myself, or taken it upon trust from Calvin; but, as I find it in the Scriptures, I cheerfully embrace it, and leave it to the Lord to vindicate his own truths and his own ways, from all the imputations which have been cast upon them.\"<br><br>John Newton, author of the hymn, <i>Amazing Grace</i>",
  "\"I know nothing, nothing again, that is more humbling for us than this doctrine of election. I have sometimes fallen prostrate before it, when endeavouring to understand it. I have stretched my wings, and, eagle-like, I have soared towards the sun. Steady has been my eye, and true my wing, for a season; but, when I came near it, and the one thought possessed me, \'God hath from the beginning chosen you unto salvation,\' I was lost in its lustre, I was staggered with the mighty thought; and from the dizzy elevation down came my soul, prostrate and broken, saying, \'Lord, I am nothing, I am less than nothing. Why me? Why me?\'\"<br><br>Charles H. Spurgeon",
  "\"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, \'You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.\' My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.\"<br><br>Charles Spurgeon",
  "\"What a man believes the bible to teach is his creed, either written or unwritten. And though it has sometimes been said that creeds have produced differences of religious opinion, it would be nearer to the truth, logically and historically, to say that differences of religious opinion have produced creeds.<br><br>As to declarations of faith, it must ever be understood that they are not substitutes for the Scriptures. They are only exponents of what are conceived to be the fundamental doctrines of the word of God. Among Baptists, as their churches are independent, it is optional with each church to have a declaration or not, as it may think best. Each church too may adopt a declaration of its own. Its independence gives it this right, nor can it be alienated.\" <br><br><i>The Baptist Church Manual</i>, pp. 42-43. 1966 edition, Broadman Press.",
  "\"It follows ... that the Bible is final for us on all questions of doctrine and polity and Christian living. The doctrines of salvation, of the church, of the ordinances, of polity, and of the Christian life we derive from the Bible. In its teachings alone do we find our sufficient, certain and authoritative source of knowledge concerning all these matters...<br><br>In conclusion, it may be said that the one sure and certain road to agreement among all Christians is obedience to the New Testament teachings in all matters of doctrine, polity, worship, and life...<br><br>For all Christians there should be one authoritative source of religious truth and knowledge. To that source they should look in all matters relating to doctrine, to polity, to the ordinances, to worship, and to Christian living -- That source is the Bible.\"<br><br>E.Y. Mullins",
  "\"The first step here is to make known to man the gospel, which contains the glad tidings of this salvation, under such influences as ought to lead to its acceptance. . .<br><br>The Gospel is, therefore, commanded to be proclaimed to every creature. . .<br><br>This is the external call of the Gospel. This proclamation, however, meets no success because of the willful sinfulness of man, although, in itself, it has all the elements which should secure its acceptance. God knowing that this is true, not only of all mankind in general, but even of the elect whom he purposes to save in Christ, gives to these such influences of the Spirit as will lead to their acceptance of the call. This is called Effectual Calling.\"<br><br>James P. Boyce",
  "\"What can render the state of a person worse than to be an enemy of God, Jesus Christ, and the power of godliness; and yet to think he is holy and a good Christian? Nay, because his conscience is blind in the matter, it acquits him since it lacks saving light, while he keeps up in a zealous performance of the external acts of duty and religion; by which means he is deprived of that help which some openly profane gain from the rebukes and lashes of their own consciences, which often proves a means of their conversion. But the hypocritical professor, not knowing he lacks a changed heart, nor understanding that he is without those Sacred Principles from whence should flow all he acts and does, but contrariwise he is stirred up by false Principles, and acts only by the power of natural conscience and affections, having no clear judgment to discern his own danger, nor what a state he is still in. His condition is deplorable, and this unclean spirit is worse and more dangerous than that which he was in before.\"<br><br>Benjamin Keach, \"A Call To Self-Examination.\" Taken from <i>The Counterfeit Christian or the Danger of Hypocrisy</i>",
  "\"If the Lord steps in to save any, He may do so if the ends of justice are not thwarted; but if He judges it best to leave the condemned to suffer the righteous sentence, none may arraign Him at the bar. Foolish and impudent are all those discourses about the rights of men to be placed on the same footing; ignorant, if not worse, are those contentions against discriminating grace, which are but the rebellions of proud human nature against the crown and sceptre of Jehovah. When we are brought to see our own utter ruin and ill desert, and the justice of the divine verdict against sin, we no longer cavil at the truth that the Lord is not bound to save us; we do not murmur if He chooses to save others, as though He were doing us an injury, but feel that if He deigns to look upon us, it will be His own free act of undeserved goodness, for which we shall ever bless His name. How shall those who are the subjects of divine election sufficiently adore the grace of God? They have no room for boasting, for sovereignty most effectually excludes it.\"<br><br>Charles Spurgeon",
  "\"Where is the young man who fears the judgment to come? What is the breath of an enemy of God to the blast of the soul by the breath of the Almighty? If you fear the frowns of a fellow worm, how will you stand in judgment with an angry God?<br><br>The sinner, under the afflictive hand of divine providence, is always made better or worse. If sickness and pain and the death of friends do not wean him from the world and drive him to God, they harden his heart. This is the effect of all the judgments of heaven and of all the calamities and miseries of human life. This is strikingly illustrated in the case of Pharaoh, King of Egypt. \'Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil\' (Ecclesiastes 8:11). Thus despising the riches of divine goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads him to repentance, after his hardness and impenitent heart and with a stiff neck, he perseveres in his course of rebellion, treasuring up unto himself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God (Romans 2:4,5).\"<br><br>Asahel Nettleton",
  "\"The conversion of one soul is worth the labour of a life time. \'Unto us is this favour given that we should preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.\' (Eph. 3:8) Hold on, therefore; be steady in your work, and leave the result with God. Be encouraged, my dear son. Devote yourself wholly to your work. For this is the cause God has had in His mind from eternity, and for which Christ shed His blood, and for which the Spirit and the Word were given. So its triumph is certain.\"<br><br>William Carey to his missionary son, William",
  "\"I believe that, at this present time, we are in great danger of being burdened with a crowd of so-called converts who do not really know anything as it ought to be known. They attended a revival meeting, were much excited, and thought they were converted; but just ask them to explain to you the simplest truths of the gospel, and you will soon discover how little they know. Could they explain the three R's, ruin, redemption, and regeneration Do they know what the ruin is? Do they know what the remedy for that ruin is? Do they understand at all what it means to be born again? Do they comprehend what the new nature is, or what \'justification by faith\' means. Perhaps someone says, \'They do not comprehend your theological terms.\' I do not mind whether they know the meaning of the terms that are familiar to many of us; but do they know the truths themselves? There is a certain degree of Christian knowledge which is absolutely necessary to salvation.\"<br><br>Charles H. Spurgeon",
  "\"He who would have a fruitful ministry must have clear shining after the rain, by which I mean, first, law, and then, gospel. We must preach plainly against sin. In our ministry there must be rain, we must have the clouds and darkness, and divine justice bearing heavily upon the sinner's conscience. Then comes in Christ crucified, full atonement, simple faith, and clear shining of comfort to the believing sinner. But there must be the rain first. He who preaches all sweetness and all love, and has nothing to do with warning men of the consequences of sin, may be thought to be very loving; but, in truth, he is altogether unfaithful to the souls of men. I do not suppose that any of you women can sew without needles. Yet your object is not simply to get the needle into the stuff, is it? No; you want to get in a bit of cotton, or thread, or silk. Well, now, try whether you can sew with a piece of silk alone. You cannot do so. You must put in the needle first, must you not? And he who would do any work for God, must have a sharp needle, as he deals plainly with the sin of man, and he must then draw after it the silken thread of the gospel of Christ. There must be rain first, and clear shining afterwards.\"<br><br>Charles H. Spurgeon",
  "\"We believe, that before the world began, God did elect a certain number of men unto everlasting Salvation whom He did predestinate to the adoption of children by Jesus of His own free grace and according to the good pleasure of His will, and that in pursuance of this gratious design, He did contrive and make a covenant of grace and peace with His Son Jesus Christ, on ye behalf of those persons, wherein a Saviour was appointed, and all spiritual blessings provided for them; as also that their persons with all their grace and glory, were put into ye hands of Christ, and made His care and charge...<br><br><ul><li>Eternal Redemption which Christ has obtained by the shedding of His blood, is special and particluar...</li><li>the Justification of God's Elect, is onely by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, without consideration of any works of righteousness done by them...</li><li>the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification, and faith is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God...</li><li>that all those who are chosen by the father, redeemed by the Son and sanctified by the Spirit shall certainly and finally persevere, so none of them shall ever perish, but shall have everlasting life.\"</li></ul><br><br>John Gill",
  "\"The Bible, and the Bible alone, holds ultimate authority in a Baptist congregation. The Second London Confession of Faith (1677) put the issue plainly: \'The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for his own Glory, man's Salvation, Faith and Life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture; unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new Revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men.\'\"<br><br>R. Albert Mohler, Jr.",
  "\"Sometimes God takes away a barren professor by permitting him to fall into open profaneness. There is one that hath taken up a profession of the worthy name of the Lord Jesus Christ, but this profession is only a cloak; he secretly practiceth wickedness; he is a glutton, or a drunkard, or covetous, or unclean. Well, saith God, I will loose the reins of this professor, I will give him up to his vile affections. I will loose the reins of his sins before him, he shall be entangled with his filthy lusts, he shall be overcome of ungodly company.\"<br><br>John Bunyan",
  "\"God (who and not man is the One who chooses or elects), of His own purpose (in accordance with His will, and not from any obligation to man, nor because of any will of man), has from Eternity (the period of God's action, not in time in which man acts), determined to save (not has actually saved, but simply determined to do so), and to save (not to confer gospel or church privileges upon), a definite number of mankind (not the whole or a part of the race, nor of a nation, nor of a church, nor of a class, as of believers or the pious; but individuals), not for or because of any merit or work of theirs, not of any value of Him of them (not for their good works, nor their holiness, nor excellence, nor their faith, nor their spiritual sanctification, although the choice is to a salvation attained through faith and sanctification; nor their value to Him, though their salvation tends greatly to the manifested glory of His grace); but of His own good pleasure (simply because He was pleased so to choose).\"<br><br>James P. Boyce",
  "\"If right principles prevailed in our hearts, we would not presume to dictate to the Infinitely Wise, nor find fault with His plans, but wait with pleasure on the development of His will: and when we cannot see the wisdom and goodness of His works, we should, in the simplicity of faith, rest assured that His plan, when fully unfolded, will be found most righteous and most wise.\"<br><br>John L. Dagg",
  "<ol><li>\"Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them a heart of flesh; renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ; yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.</li><li>This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man, nor from any power or agency in the creature, being wholly passive therein, being dead in sins and trespasses, until being quickened and renewed by the Holy Spirit; he is thereby enabled to answer this call, and to embrace the grace offered and conveyed in it, and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead.\"</li></ol> \"<br><br>Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling\" <i>1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith</i>", 
  "\"Predestination is that eternal, most wise, and immutable decree of God, whereby He did, from before all time, determine and ordain to create, dispose of, and direct to some particular end, every person and thing to which He has given, or is yet to give, being; and to make the whole creation subservient to, and declarative of, His own glory.<br><br>Baptism is essential to obedience, and obedience is essential to salvation. All those who deliberately refuse to be immersed, though they are convinced that God commands it, can have no reason to expect eternal life; and this, not because there is anything in the mere watery rite which is efficacious in securing salvation, but because that principle in their hearts, which prompts them to disobey God, utterly disqualifies them for a place at His right hand.\"<br><br>Patrick Hues Mell",
  "\"What may be before me, through what scenes of difficulty and distress I may pass, or where I may find a fixed residence, should this be the case, I know not nor am I anxious to know. To endeavor to extend the knowledge of Christ among the heathen, is undoubtedly right. It is the Lord's not mine, to determine whether such endeavors shall be successful. To Him would I cheerfully commit myself, my brethren, and the missionary cause.\"<br><br>Luther Rice from a letter to his brother while suffering poor health and opposition from the East India Company",
  "\"The study of religious truth ought to be undertaken and prosecuted from a sense of duty, and with a view of the improvement of the heart. When learned, it ought not to be laid on the shelf, as an object of speculation; but it should be deposited deep in the heart, where its sanctifying power ought to be felt. To study theology, for the purpose of gratifying curiosity, or preparing for a profession, is an abuse and profanation of what ought to be regarded as most holy. To learn things pertaining to God, merely for the sake of amusement, or secular advantage, or to gratify the mere love of knowledge, is to treat the Most High with contempt.\"<br><br>John L. Dagg",
  "\"It is our duty, while rendering punctilious obedience to all the commands of God, to regard the forms and ceremonies of religion as of far less importance than its moral truths and precepts...Because we differ from other professors of religion in our faith and practice respecting the externals of religion, we are under a constant temptation to make too much account of these external peculiarities. Against this temptation we should ever struggle. If we magnify ceremony unduly, we abandon our principles, and cease to fulfill the mission to which the Head of the church has assigned us.\"<br><br>John L. Dagg \"Expressing the Baptist view of unbaptized ministers of God such as George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies and Edward Payson. Dagg regarded these men as Godly ministers even if they were in error concerning baptism.\"",
  "\"In short, limited atonement affirms that Jesus Christ in dying bore the sins of His people, enduring all the punishment that was due to them by becoming the curse that the law demanded. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him for this purpose, for in so doing He gained - by His meritorious death - forgiveness, righteousness, sanctification, and eternal glory for a large and definite number of people, all of whom He knew and to whom He was joined before the foundation of the world.\"<br><br>Thomas J. Nettles",
  "\"The root principles of the two great systems of theology are to be found embedded either in Calvinism or in Arminianism. However, these systems were in existence eleven hundred years before John Calvin was born. Then, these two systems were called Augustinianism and Pelagianism, so named after the two men of the fifth century who defined them. Yes, we call it Calvinism. We could, with justice, call it Augustinianism which would not mean we are following Augustine into the Roman Catholic Church but rather that we are following the principles of theology that Augustine taught. Indeed, John A. Broadus, a great Southern Baptist of the last century, was right when he said that this system goes back to the Apostle Paul. Hence, Broadus called Calvinism \'that exalted system of Pauline truth.\'\"<br><br>Ernest C. Reisinger",
  "\"Show me a Christian with a genuine Baptist heart throbbing in his bosom, and we look upon a man who is an honor to his race and the pride of Christianity and a blessing to the world. We look upon a man who loves Christ-loves His government-His Church-His laws and ordinances for conscience sake with a pure heart fervently,-we look upon a martyr, wanting nothing by the occasion to lay down his life in testimony of Jesus.<br><br>Have a real Baptist heart, my brother, a good round heart-not a flat, slobby, sobby one-but a firm round one whose every throb is from principle-and every pulsation for the honor of Christ's persecuted cause. He who has a real Baptist heart within him will be a Baptist everywhere, and under all circumstances. No scoffer can shame, no opposition appal [sic] him. To be a full Baptist is the highest glory of man-is to be all that man can be-a christian in its sense-a patriot, a republican-the friend of God and a friend to man.\"<br><br>J.R. Graves",
  "\"Church order and the ceremonials of religion are less important than a new heart; and in the view of some, any laborious investigation of questions respecting them may appear to be needless and unprofitable. But we know, from the Holy Scriptures, that Christ gave commands on these subjects, and we cannot refuse to obey. Love prompts our obedience; and love prompts also the search which may be necessary to ascertain his will. Let us, therefore, prosecute the investigations which are before us, with a fervent prayer, that the Holy Spirit, who guides into all truth, may assist us to learn the will of him whom we supremely love and adore.\"<br><br>John L. Dagg, <i>A Treatise on Church Order</i>",
  "\"We believe, that before the world began, God did elect a certain number of men unto everlasting Salvation whom He did predestinate to the adoption of children by Jesus of His own free grace and according to the good pleasure of His will, and that in pursuance of this gracious design, He did contrive and make a covenant of grace and peace with his Son Jesus Christ, on ye behalf of those persons, wherein a Saviour was appointed, and all spiritual blessings provided for them; as also that their persons with all their grace and glory, were put into ye hands of Christ, and made His care and charge...<ul><li>Eternal Redemption which Christ has obtained by the shedding of his blood, is special and particular...</li><li>the Justification of God's Elect, is onely by the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, without consideration of any works of righteousness done by them...</li><li>the work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification, and faith is not an act of man's free will and power, but of the mighty, efficacious and irresistible grace of God...</li><li>that all those who are chosen by the father, redeemed by the son and sanctified by the spirit shall certainly and finally persevere, so none of them shall ever perish, but shall have everlasting life.\"</li></ul><br><br>John Gill",
  "\"[God] might have sent the whole lump of fallen Mankind to Hell...Why we, and not those in <i>India</i>, and few or none in <i>England?</i> why should we hae the Gospel here in this Isle, and almost all the Word [sic] lie in the Darkness of Popery, Mahometanism, or Paganism?  If Christ died for all, why is not the Gospel preached to all?...the Gospel he doth not give to all, nor His Spirit, Faith, and other Gifts that are necessary to Salvation, to many thousands in the world; therefore He did not give His Son to die to save them all.\"<br><br>Benjamin Keach",
  "\�What is not there commanded, is not binding...if it is not sustained by the command or the example of Christ, or of His apostles, we value it only as an opinion or a precept of man, and we treat it accordingly...Hence, to a Baptist, all appeals to the Fathers, or to antiquity, or general practice in the early centuries, or in latter times, are irrelevant and frivolous.\"<br><br>Francis Wayland"

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