THE CHRISTIAN'S WALK

As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord. So walk you in him. Colossians 2.6.

THE ONLY THING OUR BIBLE HAS IS PREDESTINATION

This was a statement made towards me by some well-meaning brethren.  They meant no harm in it.  But it indicated a lack of understanding of the vast implications of a belief in the absolute predestination of God. We doubt they would view predestination in dire times of need, afflictions, and persecution as a side issue or a doctrine that can be overstated. 

GLORY OF CHRIST 2/2

 

We conclude with the second part of Glory of Christ - ed

GLORY OF CHRIST 1/2

 

Introduction

An Exposition of the Mystery which was kept secret since the world began; wherein the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity is manifested in the Glory-Man, the Lord JESUS, and that Christ’s bearing the Iniquity of our Sin in his Sufferings was the Atonement he made to God for the Elect; set forth against the Socinian and Neonomian triumphs, and against some other Cowardly Professions. It is likewise demonstrated that an Interest in Christ is built alone upon the Free, Absolute, and Everlasting Love of the Father, Son, and Spirit, towards an elect Remnant in Christ Jesus, against the Arminians. And therein is some account given of the Mystery of the Elect and their Union in Christ Jesus before the Foundation of the World; proving that their Free Grace Union according to God’s Ancient Settlements was never, as to the Comprehensive and Supreme Relation of the elect in Jesus Christ destroyed by their Subordinate Nature-Fall in Adam. To these things is added a Vindication of the Excellency of God’s Free Grace against the whole Arminian Scheme. And lastly, the Spiritual Operations of the Holy Ghost are Vindicated, as the Immediate Spring, Life, and Source of all True Religion.

TEN PRAYERS GOD ALWAYS ANSWERS?? ANOTHER ARMINIAN MISUNDERSTANDING

Arminians are always looking to help God in the attainment of spiritual things.  In this article the author assures of God will do if we do certain things.  It is another means of grace tit-for-tat - ed.

Robot ‘Church Fathers’ Might Curate New Canons | Christianity Today

We read the following in Christianity Today:

The pace of adoption for artificial intelligence is unprecedented. By the end of January, ChatGPT—an AI chatbot that generates brand original content when prompted—had logged 100 million visitors to its site. Before that, it reached 1 million users in the first five days after its release in late November. By comparison, Instagram took 2.5 months to reach 1 million users, and Facebook 10 months. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT, which can produce humanlike responses to users’ prompts, will undoubtedly shape how we, as the Book of Common Prayer puts it, “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest” the Scriptures. Indeed, there are already multiple tailor-made AI-driven chatbot systems being used for Bible engagement—which I’ve dubbed “BibleGPTs” including IlluminateBible.com, SiliconScripture.org, Bible.ai, and OpenBible.info’s AI-assisted Bible Study.

GO'S OPERATIONS OF GRACE BUT NO OFFERS OF GRACE 2/2

We continue with the 2nd part of Hussey's Treatise - ed.

GOD'S OPERATIONS OF GRACE BUT NO OFFERS OF HIS GRACE 1/2

 GOD’S OPERATIONS OF GRACE BUT NO OFFERS OF HIS GRACE

To which are added two brief treatises. The One about Invitation, and the other about Exhortation of Sinners to come to Christ; both examined and consistently stated with the Glory of Free Grace, to rectify some Common and Prevailing Mistakes in Ministers, who now with Time, are running in the Present Generation.

By Joseph Hussey

A Poor Despised Servant of JESUS CHRIST, and Pastor of the Congregational Church of Christ at Cambridge.

Ezekiel 4:1-2.

1707 COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED

Supralapsarian Press 2015 EDITION

TUB PREACHERS OVERTURNED...

We warn our readers that this text is difficult to read.  It represents the writings of an Anglican who disparaged those who broke away from the Church of England.

A "tub preacher" was a disparaging term used for untrained preachers, who had no college education. These men were many times washermen, or men who did menial tasks for a living, and then would overturn their washtub over and use them as elevated pulpits to preach from - ed.

Christians Soon to Be a Minority in the USA | by Dan Foster | Backyard Church | Jul, 2023 | Medium

Christians Soon to Be a Minority in the USA | by Dan Foster | Backyard Church | Jul, 2023 | Medium

GOSPEL GLORY PROCLAIMED BEFORE THE SONS OF MEN IN THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE WORSHIP OF GOD

This is a very long but important treatise on the church  - ed.

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF SALVATION?

WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF SALVATION? BY ELDER SAMUEL. TROTT

Brother Beebe: - The next subject on which my views are requested is embraced in this inquiry: What are the Conditions of Salvation?

A LETTER TO PRIMTIVE BAPTISTS WHO LOVE THE TRUTH...(the origins of Conditionalism)

This is a letter concerning the newly-rising Conditional Time Salvation in Kentucky & Tennessee.  This letter did NOT appear in the Signs of the Times.  Most likely, it was a supplement to Boaz's book, Conditional Time Salvation, Is It The Truth? - ed.

PROSPECTUS OF THE SIGNS JANUARY 1, 1923

Elder Lefferts was for years, the pastor of Welsh Tract Old School Baptist Church in Newark, Delaware - ed.

PREACHERS TAUGHT OF MEN...

When we compare what you are about to read, with the way that Paul and the other apostles' "preached", the differences will be startling - ed.

SUFFICIENCY OF THE SPIRIT’S TEACHING 3/3

 

“…worldly learned men are in God’s account unlearned men, because destitute of his Spirit; “beware, therefore, and take heed lest you also” as well as others, you being subject to it, “be plucked away before you are aware, into the error of the wicked”; to think that God’sd mysteries can be attained by man’s learning…”

SUFFICIENCY OF THE SPIRIT’S TEACHING 2/3

This is the second part of this rare treatise.  As far as we know it has never been posted in this form before - ed.

SUFFICIENCY OF THE SPIRIT’S TEACHING 1/3

The Sufficiency of the Spirit’s Teaching without Human Learning, or A treatise, tends to prove human learning to be no help to the Spiritual Understanding of the Word of God

OBSERVATIONS ON A BOOK...BY MR. BENJAMIN KEACH [AGAINST CONGREGATIONAL SINGING]

Isaac Marlow was a member of Keach's Church in London who opposed congregational singing - ed.

SERIOUS ANSWER TO A LATE EPISTLE...(AGAINST THOMAS WHINNEL)

This is a treatise written by William Kiffin against congregational singing written by Mr. Whinnel - ed.

THE BREACH REPAIRED IN GOD'S WORSHIP 4/4

Your tenth Reply is about formal Prayer, and Singing used under the Law; therefore you inti­mate as if we should say, Why may not Prayer & Singing be used under the Gospel? p. 43.

THE BREACH REPAIRED IN GOD'S WORSHIP 3/4

 

This is a continuation of the treatise by Benjamin Keach in favor of Congregational Singing, which was a large controversy in the 1600s - ed.

THE BREACH REPAIRED IN GOD'S WORSHIP 2/4

This is the second of five parts of the book Keach wrote defending congregational singing - ed.

THE BREACH REPAIRED IN GOD'S WORSHIP...1/3

THE Breach Repaired …

THE Breach Repaired in God's Worship: OR, Singing of PSALMS, HYMNS, and Spiritual Songs, proved to be a Holy Ordinance of JESUS CHRIST. With an Answer to all Objections.

THE ORTHODOX CATECHISM'S APPENDIX ON SINGING (HERCULES COLLINS)

 

As far as we know, This is the first time that this Appendix on Congregational Singing has been posted on the internet in a modern form.  The posting of this article should not be understood to be an endorsement of the statements read.  We post it for historical reasons and show both sides of the debate on congregational singing.  Collins had. legalistic-moral-law- view of singing as well as everything else.  Which shows in this treatise - ed.

AN ANSWER TO A BRIEF DISCOURSE CONCERNING SINGING...IN THE GOSPEL CHURCH

Hanserd Knollys was in favor of congregational singing - ed.

A JUST VINDICATION OF WILLIAM COLLINS (ON SINGING)

William Collins wrote a defense of Congregational Singing, which was opposed by Issac Marlow - ed.

PRELIMiTED FORMS OF PRAISING GOD (ISAAC MARLOW) 1691

Here is the first treatise written by Isaac Marlow concerning the properness of Congregational Singing.  To our knowledge it has never before been corrected and its English modernized and posted on the internet - ed.

KEACH: AN ANSWER TO MR. MARLO'S APPENDIX 2/2

We continue with Keach’s Work Against Isaac Marlon on Congregational singing - ed.

KEACH: AN ANSER TO MR. MARLOW'S APPENDIX 1/2

AN ANSWER TO Mr. Marlow's Appendix.

Wherein his Arguments to prove that Singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spi­ritual Songs, was performed in the Primitive Church by a Special or an Extraordinary Gift, and therefore not to be practiced in these Days,

Are Examined, and clearly Detected.

Also some Reflections on what he speaks on the word, Hymnos: And on his undue Quotations of divers Lear­ned Men. By a Learned Hand.

A TREATISE ON THE LAYING ON OF HANDS ON BAPTIZED BELIEVERS

Henry D'Anvers was against the laying on of hands on all baptized believers - ed.

LOST ORDINANCE RESTORED; OR 8 QUESTIONS IN REFERENCE...LAYING ON OF HANDS

More was a Seventh Day Baptist, as well as a Six-Principle Baptist - ed

THE DOCTRINE OF THE LAYING ON OF HANDS EXAMINED & VINDICATED

This is a pamphlet written by Elder David Jones, of the Church in the Great Valley, Pa., on the occasion of his concern that this doctrine, vital to Welsh Baptists, was being slowly abandoned in the Philadelphia Association.  The Laying on of Hands was generally believed by all Welsh Baptists who came to America, especially by Welsh Tract Church, which felt compelled to leave the congregation at Penneypack over the issue - ed.

BY THE REV. DAVID JONES, A. M.


In meekness instructing these that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknow­ledging of the truth,
2 Tim ii. 25.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED by FRANCIS BAILEY, at YORICK'S-HEAD, in Market Street. M.DCC.LXXXVI.

THE EXPERIENCE OF MINERVA F DUNLAP

Dear editors.

I am enclosing a copy of a letter from Sister Dunlap. I wrote her and asked permission to send it to you for your consideration of publishing it in the Signs of the Times. She gave her consent. I consider her experience very rich.

Sister Dunlap stated in her reply to my letter that she had reread many of the old signs since their association, and had rejoiced with those who told their experiences and enjoyed so much many able writings by our ministers, and if someone should get a small part of the enjoyment from reading hers. That she had in reading. Said experiences, she would be glad.

Yours in precious hope.

BO Thompson

CROWN HIM THE LORD OF ALL?

By Matthias Süßen - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4597114

Is this hymn biblical?  What man or group of mortals has the authority to Crown Christ?  Any doctrine that does not put Jesus in the very center of all good works and actions of righteousness, or that gives any credit to men's actions is in error, and in its essence antichristian.

THE NAKED RUNAWAY

"And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body. And the young man laid hold on him, and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked."

Mark. 14.51, 52.

EXPERIENCE - JOHN CROWLEY

302 E. Lawson St.

Hahira, Georgia 31632

July 15, 1974

Dear Brethren of the Signs, Having noted that my subscription to the SIGNS OF TIIE TIMES expires next month, I herein enclose a check for $4.00 to cover another year's subscription.

THE PAGANESS OF A "CHURCH SERVICE" (SANTAMARIA)

"Pastors who routinely tell their congregations that “we do everything by the Book” and still perform this ironclad liturgy are simply not correct. (In their defense, the lack of truthfulness is due to ignorance rather than overt deception.) You can scour your Bible from beginning to end, and you will never find anything that remotely resembles our order of worship. This is because the first-century Christians knew no such thing. In fact, the Protestant order of worship has about as much biblical support as the Roman Catholic Mass. Both have few points of contact with the New Testament. The meetings of the early church were marked by every-member functioning, spontaneity, freedom, vibrancy, and open participation (see, for example, 1 Corinthians 14:1-33 and Hebrews 10:25). The first-century church meeting was a fluid gathering, not a static ritual. And it was often unpredictable, unlike the contemporary church service." [Viola, Frank; Barna, George. Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices (p. 50). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.] 

THE HISTORY OF SERMONS

 

“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” —Paul of Tarsus in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5

THE SABBATH

Will Elder FA Chick please give us his views on Sunday or the Sabbath, as it is called? The Seventh Day Adventists are quite brave. Here. They sent us a pamphlet entitled Rome's Challenge or Why Do Protestants Keep Sunday? It was copied from the Catholic Mirror, the official organ of Cardinal Gibbons and of the Papacy in the United States, charging Protestants with following after Catholicism. We wanted to see some able writer upon this subject, Yours in hope.

Mrs. T. M. Shearer.

North Yakima. Washington. December 21st, 1894.

CONDITIONAL TIME SALVATION. IS IT THE TRUTH? 2/2

PART VI OF THE GOSPEL

Some speak of the Gospel as if it were a bundle of propositions, or offers, in which God offers to exchange His grace and blessings with His children for their works of obedience. Hence they tell us God has promised on His part to bless us with a good conscience and ease of mind if we will do our duty and if we will work diligently enough we will grow and reap a rich harvest, etc., but it all depends on us, in how and if we accept the proposition. Now they call this Gospel? Paul would have been ashamed of this kind of Gospel, but he said he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth." (Romans 1:16)

CONDITIONAL TIME SALVATION IS THE TRUTH? 1/2

ELDER R.H. BOAZ

INTRODUCTION

In presenting myself before the public in the form of this little book, I have nothing to expect from the worldly-wise but ridicule and contempt. But I am not seeking to please men, but regardless of what men may think or say; I have given in a condensed way what I conscientiously believe to be the teachings of God, as written in His Holy Word, concerning the care of His people here in time. I trust that God in His great mercy to me - a poor sinner - has made me know that there is no confidence to be put in the flesh, seeing the great effort of the modern worldly-wise to lead and cause the children of God to trust in man, or to make flesh their arm. I have felt constrained to go among them with this little book, trusting that God has sent me. In writing I have studied brevity, and have condensed my arguments in every way that I could, merely indicating the arguments that would follow. This I had to do or this little pamphlet would have been a large volume. I hope, dear reader, that God will give you to carefully consider the arguments thus presented.

I would be sorry indeed to know, or to think that I had misrepresented any man's teachings, or beliefs. It is not in my heart to harm anyone, but I would under God's grace be of help to my fellows. For want of space I have not attempted to answer all the objections that I know will be raised against my arguments, but as intimated already, I have nothing to expect from the mere critic, for well do I know that every principle of depraved human nature is arrayed against the doctrine herein advocated. But to God's humble poor I appeal, praying that God will guide you while you search these pages, which I humbly hope He has impressed me to write to you, and that He will go with this little book among His distressed children and bring them back from their wanderings, if it is His will - that they may serve Him, the only true God, and rely upon Him as their only Saviour.

R. H. Boaz

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SCHOOL BAPTISTS 6/6

 Beebe concludes his series of articles with the subject of predestination - ed.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SCHOOL BAPTISTS 5/6

 
Here Beebe will speak on the topic of Justification - ed.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SCHOOL BAPTISTS 4/6

The next item in which an essential difference of sentiment exists between the Old and New School Baptists is to be considered as the Atonement.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SCHOOL BAPTISTS 3/6

Beebe now describes the differences among Baptists, when it comes to Election - ed.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SHCOOL BAPTISTS 2/6

This is the second of the 6 articles illustrating the differences between Old & New School Baptists - ed.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OLD & NEW SCHOOL BAPTISTS 1/6

These articles have, as far we know, never been posted in the internet and were last published in paper form in 1894 - ed.

THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST

(Reply to Brother J. F. White)

The text proposed for consideration is II Corinthians 5:10: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”

THE FULTON CONVENTION OF 1900...

Conditionalists have made much of the "National Convention of Primitive Baptists" held at Fulton, Kentucky in 1900 since it came together.