A NEW BEGINNING

Many of you may recognize the name from the books we have published.  We published 7 volumes of Gilbert Beebe's Editorials from the Signs of the Times; Select Works of Elder Samuel Trott; A Feast of Fat Things, and others. Maybe you remember when The Remnant was published by us as well.  We now enter the digital age of internet publishing.  It is our plan to bring forth from the treasury things both old and new, all of which will uphold our original Statement of Principles.


Here are those Principles printed in The Remnant, Volume 7, Number 3.
     1.  - The eternal existence, sovereignty, immutability, omnipotence, and perfections of Jehovah God; He has revealed Himself as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and these sacred Three are One; Jesus Christ was and is God manifest in the flesh, and in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;
    2.  - The Old and New Testaments in their original languages are the verbally inspired word of God, and they are the complete and only valid guide of faith and practice; the King James Version is the preferred English Translation;
    3.  - The will of the eternal God is the first cause of all causes;
    4.  - The absolute predestination of all things;
    5.  - The eternal personal election of the redeemed in Christ, before the world began, and their eternal, vital union with Him; their number is fixed, certain, and sure, and can neither be increased or diminished; their fall in their federal head Adam into spiritual death, total depravity, and just condemnation; their utter inability to recover themselves from this fallen state;
    6.  - The blood atonement and redemption by Jesus Christ are for the elect only, and are both efficacious and effectual in accomplishing the will and purpose of God to reconcile His people unto Himself;
    7.  - The sovereign, irresistible, effectual work of the Holy Spirit in quickening the elect of God; the new birth is by the direct operation of the Holy Spirit without the use of any means;
    8.  - The final preservation, perseverance, and eternal happiness of all the sons of God, by grace alone;
    9.  - No works are good works other than those which God Himself has so designated; none of the works called good are left up to men to perform or not, at the creature's discretion; nor do the works of the creature, either before or after regeneration, result in merit accruing to this account in God's sight;
    10. - The peaceable fruits of righteousness are the certain result of God's working in His people both to will and to do of His good pleasure, and His people will be found walking in paths of righteousness for His name's sake;
    11. - The separation of church and state;
    12. - The principles outlined in the Black Rock Address of 1832;
    13. - The bodily resurrection, first of Christ, and also that of all the dead;
    14. - The final and eternal judgment; and,
    15. - The bliss of the redeemed and the torment of the wicked are both eternal and everlasting.

We have emphasized a few words or phrases in the above statement to direct your attention to them and, hopefully, your meditations on them.  Though these are not perfect, they do express our sentiments on the basics of the doctrine of the Old School Baptists from 1832 until now. 

We make no apology for the fact we are Old School, Predestinarian, Anti-Means, Anti-Mission, Primitive Baptists.  Indeed, those who would apologize for this doctrine and practice makes it manifest they really are not what they claim to be.  We ask that you comment as you feel led.  If you desire to write for publication on this site, we will be glad to read your submission, but we will not guarantee you space in these columns.  Our goal is to edify God's people; to feed the sheep and the lambs.  Controversy will come, but we hope to handle it not in a carnal way.

We hope to be blessed to attend more meetings of our people this year; and desire to meet the Saints wherever they reside.  Finally, Brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord might have free course, and be glorified.