Baptist History Lesson 7

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Baptist HistoryLesson 7

• Particular Baptists from the Protectorate to the
  Glorious Restoration

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Elizabeth 1558-1603
James I 1603-1625
Charles I 1625-1649
English Commonwealth 1649-1653
Cromwell 1653-1658
Charles II 1660-1685
James II 1685-1688
William Mary 1688-1702
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I. Period of Revolution (1640-1648)
Political war between Parliament Royalists
Religious

• High Baptist Visibility

• Establishment mentality

II. Period of the Protectorate (1649-1659)
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
A. Commonwealth-governed by House of Commons
(1649-1653)
You have sat too long for any good you have been
doing lately ... Depart, I say and let us have
done with you. In the name of God, go!
B . Protectorate (1653-1659)
Instrument of Government
Lord Protector
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XXXV. That the Christian religion, as contained
in the Scriptures, be held forth and recommended
as the public profession of these nations and
that, as soon as may be, a provision, less
subject to scruple and contention, and more
certain than the present, be made for the
encouragement and maintenance of able and painful
teachers, for the instructing the people, and for
discovery and confutation of error, hereby, and
whatever is contrary to sound doctrine and until
such provision be made, the present maintenance
shall not be taken away or impeached.
No persecution of non-worshippers
XXXVI. That to the public profession held forth
none shall be compelled by penalties or
otherwise but that endeavours be used to win
them by sound doctrine and the example of a good
conversation.
XXXVII. That such as profess faith in God by
Jesus Christ (though differing in judgment from
the doctrine, worship or discipline publicly held
forth) shall not be restrained from, but shall be
protected in, the profession of the faith and
exercise of their religion so as they abuse not
this liberty to the civil injury of others and to
the actual disturbance of the public peace on
their parts provided this liberty be not
extended to Popery or Prelacy, nor to such as,
under the profession of Christ, hold forth and
practice licentiousness.
XXXVIII. That all laws, statutes and ordinances,
and clauses in any law, statute or ordinance to
the contrary of the aforesaid liberty, shall be
esteemed as null and void.
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C. Baptists in Prominent Places
D. Rise of Sectarian Religion
1. Levellers
2. Diggers
3. Seekers
John Saltmarsh Smoke in the Temple
4. Quakers
5. Fifth Monarchy
The messianic kingdom, the fifth monarchy
prophesied by Daniel, would be realized by the
return of Christ following the English civil war
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E. Baptist Highlights During this Period
1. Increase in churches

• Effective lay ministry

• Mobility provided by army

2. Development of the theory of religious liberty
This is important as a theological truth
3. Identification with mainstream Protestantism
4. Churches were strengthened for the upcoming
persecution
Associations
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RENEWED PERSECUTION 1660-1689
I. Political
A. Restoration of the Stuart monarchy
Edward Hyde Lord Clarendon
Clarendon Codes
Charles II (1630-1685)
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II. Religious Condition
A. Clarendon Code
1. Corporation Act (1661)
2. Act of Uniformity (1662)
3. Conventicle Act (1664)
4. Five Mile Act (1665)
B. Declaration of Indulgence 1672
C. Second Declaration of Indulgence, 1687
D. Act of Toleration 1689
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III. Baptist Suffering and Confessing
A. Suffering
1. John Bunyan
2. William Kiffen
3. Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
Wm. Kiffen (1616-1701)
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I. Converted age 15
II. General Baptist (1655- ca. 1672)
III. Became a Particular Baptist ca. 1672
Installed as pastor of Horsley Downs church
Influence in Church polity and worship
Discipline The Glory of the True Gospel Church
and Disciplined displayd
Music argued for singing of hymns as an
instituted part of worship The Banqueting House
or a Feast of Fat Things
Ministerial support Duty to provide a
comfortable maintenance for them and their
Families, suitable to their state and condition
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IV. Publications
Expository Exposition of the Parables-Preaching
from Types and Metaphors
Sermonic The Display of Glorious Grace, or the
Covenant of Peace Opened (14 sermons)
Polemical The Breach Repaired in Gods
Worship-The Gospel Ministers Maintenance
Vindicated
Theological The Everlasting Covenant, A Sweet
Cordial for a Drooping Soul The Marrow of
Justification
Poetry and Metaphorical The Glorious Lover, a
Divine Poem upon the Adorable Mystery of Sinners
Redemption
V. Theological influence
Central theme of his ministry The Eternal
Covenant of Redemption