Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – B.H. Carroll – Distinctive Baptist Principles – PART SIX of NINETEEN

THOMAS E KRESAL ADMIN · 6 HRS JUNE 28, 2020

Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – B.H. Carroll – Distinctive Baptist Principles – PART SIX of NINETEEN
THE NEW TESTAMENT—THE LAW OF CHRISTIANITY #4The New Testament is the law of Christianity. All the New Testament is the law of Christianity. The New Testament is all the law of Christianity. The New Testament always will be all the law of Christianity. Avaunt, ye types and shadows! Avaunt, Apocrypha! Avaunt, O Synagogue! Avaunt, Tradition, thou hoary-headed liar. Hush! Be still and listen!All through the Christian ages—from dark and noisome dungeons, from the lone wanderings of banishment and expatriation, from the roarings and sickening conflagrations of martyr fires—there comes a voice—shouted here, whispered there, sighed, sobbed, or gasped elsewhere—a Baptist voice, nearer than a silver trumpet and sweeter than the chime of bells, a voice that freights and glorifies the breeze or gale that bears it. O Earth hearken to it: The New Testament is the law of Christianity!Let the disciples of Zoroaster, Brahma, Confucius, Zeno and Epicurus hear it. And when Mahomet comes with his Koran, or Joe Smith with his book of Mormon, or Swedenborg with his new revelations, or spirit-rappers, wizards, witches and necromancers with their impostures, confront each in turn with the all-sufficient revelation of this book, and when science—falsely so called (properly speculative philosophy)—would hold up the book as moribund, effete or obsolete, may that Baptist voice rebuke it.Christ himself set up his kingdom. Christ himself established his church. Christ himself gave us Christian law. And the men whom he inspired furnish us the only reliable record of these institutions. They had no successors in inspiration. The record is complete. Prophecy and vision have ceased. The canon of revelation and the period of legislation are closed. Let no man dare to add to it or take from it, or dilute it, or substitute for it. It is written. It is finished.Continued with the Distinctive: IndividualityPresented by Thomas E. Kresal from: BAPTISTS And Their Doctrines Sermons on Distinctive Baptist Principles BY B. H. CARROLL, D.D. PRESIDENT, SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 1913 pg. 8https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3265940970124239&set=gm.1302555153272964&type=3&eid=ARD2LtA0uVNiA75QVvUlj8hKqiO-8eeJAn8swQ_EGgQLaVY8bMeSjHOM1pfGMlwcigfCoEU4bhaPS4No&ifg=1