REGENERATION DOES NOT EQUAL THE NEW BIRTH

This is a common mistake among Christians to conflate regeneration with the New Birth.  The implications of this conflation are vast - ed.

The Fortified Hardshell Episode 1

Welsh Tract Publications is hosting a new Podcast Series titled, "The Fortified Hardshell".  You can listen to it here or on Apple and Google podcasts.

FOR TRIED, TREMBLING AND DOUBTING CHRISTIANS...

The following correspondence was not written for publication; nor have we asked or obtained the consent of our correspondent to expose it in our columns; but as the entire subject matter of her letter, and our reply, is of common interest to all the tried, trembling, doubting lambs of the flock, in the hope that its perusal will be useful to others, we take the liberty to present it to our readers. As we suppress her signature and her place of date, we think the writer will not charge us with a breach of trust. Having had some previous correspondence and personal acquaintance with the writer, we fully believe she is a subject of grace, and an heir of glory, notwithstanding all her doubts and fears.

THE FEW & THE MANY...

 

They are small in number and soon to die out - ed.

EXAMINE YOURSELVES...

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye, not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? II Corinthians 13.5

THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH "IMMERSED" 2/2

This is the conclusion of an article for the consideration of those poor Reformed Baptists, (step Children of the Reformation) who must always not wander too far from their Presbyterian overseers - ed.

THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION "IMMERSED" 1/2

For those "Reformed" Baptists (if such a term is even consistently possible to exist), who when they try to speak of what they "confess" spend 90% of their time quoting "the Confession" or some "Reformed-Baby-Sprinkling- Thinker, we provide these two articles for their consideration - ed.

GOD COMMANDS ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT

Brother F.A. Chick of Maine has desired us to give our views to the signs on Acts 17.39. And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.

WHAT ARE THE RELIABLE EVIDENCES THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE?

Perhaps there is no subject in which the feeble, fearful, trembling, tempted, and doubting children of God feel a greater interest than to know what other scriptural evidences of being in a quickened and regenerated state. 

FOUNDATION OF PRECIOUS STONES

"According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."

THE FIRST & SECOND ADAM...

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

THE VINE & THE BRANCHES...

“If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”

THE PHRASE "ALL MEN" IN THE SCRIPTURES

 

March 21st, 1866.

“And if I be lifted up from the earth? I will draw all men unto me” John 19.32.

NEW SCHOOL LETTER ATTACKS OLD SCHOOL BAPTISTS

The attacks on Old School Baptists have not changed over time - ed.

NEW SCHOOL DOCTRINE...

For those who might think that we should not concern ourselves with what is going on around us, especially among those who call themselves Baptists, we submit this example from Elder Gilbert Beebe - ed.

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND CELEBRITY PREACHERS...

The Home Mission Board formed in 1847 over the issue of slavery, is still around with the name North American Mission Board - ed.

RELATIVE TO THE DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST

This article was written by Elder Abraham Booth in 1803 when he was in his 80s. It was written against Andrew Fuller's view of atonement. As far as we know, it is the first time it has been posted online - ed.

THE CHURCH OF GOD, WHAT IS IT?

Many misdefine what a church is.  Some think it is a building; some think it is a physical organization.  We, Old School Baptists define it as the New Testament does - ed.

EVERLASTING TASK FOR ARMINIANS

Note: The cause of the appearance of this work was a controversy which took place between Mr. Smyth, of St. Luke's Church, and Mr. Roby, then minister of the Independent Chapel, Grosvenor Street, Manchester. Mr. Smyth wrote a work entitled, "Paul against Calvin," to which Mr. Roby replied, and this work was issued as a further task for Mr. Smyth. The only answer that Mr. S. wrote was, that "as MR. G. had compared himself to a country rustic, he [Mr. S.] would pass him by as a good dog would in a farm-yard." Mr. Smyth-

THE LAW

This is a reply to William W Tufts's article titled, "The Walk In The Light" - ed.

THE WALK IN THE LIGHT

Another excellent article by Brother Tufts on the experience of a believer and how it contrasts with that of an unbeliever - ed.

THE NATIONAL BAPTISTS AND THEIR IDOLS...

Although Beebe was speaking of a group that has changed its name, the principle upon which they stood remains the same today with similar organizations - ed.

FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE...

Now faith is the substance of things, hope for the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11.1.

THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD...

This is perhaps, one of the greatest articles in the Signs of the Times on the life and experience of a believer - ed.

INVITATIONS OF THE GOSPEL

 

The message of this article is so different from the message we hear today in most churches, that it is hard to believe they are preaching the gospel - ed.

21ST CENTURY STATE OF THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

Courtesy Library of Congress

We see that all the mockery that Old School Baptists received for opposing missionary societies of the 19th and 20th centuries was invalid.  These Baptists predicted where things would lead - ed.

EXPERIENCE OF MARY B. BRISTOW...

What a true Gospel faith! - ed.

EXPERIENCE OF HULDAH ST. JOHN...

Another letter written by a dear sister in Christ during this bloody conflict - ed.

EXPERIENCE OF ANGELINE CONLEY...

This blessed saint was writing in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in the history of the United States, yet she had inner peace - ed.

EXPERIENCE OF HESTER RUMNEY IN NEW YORK CITY

 

"We believe that Sanctification is the process by which, according to the will of God, we are made partakers of his holiness; that it is a progressive work; that it is begun in regeneration; and that it is carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, the Sealer and Comforter, in the continual use of the appointed means, – especially, the word of God, self-examination, self-denial, watchfulness and prayer." Capital Baptist Church, Washington DC

Compare this Arminian view of sanctification to the true Gospel experience of a believer - ed.

ChatGPT AI robots writing sermons causing hell for pastors

This is something that Beebe could have never foreseen.  But perhaps he did in a way.  When spiritually dead men preach sermons, there is no spirituality in it, since they do not possess the Spirit.  If this is so, why should we not expect that machines and software algorithms should be able to eventually duplicate these sermons? - ed.