Principles and Practices for Baptist Churches: A Guide to the Administration of Baptist Churches

by Edward Thurston Hiscox

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

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1980

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