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Baptist History, Heritage & Distinctives – B.H. Carroll \u2013 Distinctive Baptist Distinctives – PART FOUR THE NEW TESTAMENT\u2014THE LAW OF CHRISTIANITY #2 <\/strong>\u2013 continuedWe believe that the church, with all that pertains to it, is strictly a New Testament institution. We do not deny that there was an Old Testament ecclesia, but do deny its identity with the New Testament ecclesia.We do not deny the circumcision of infants under Old Testament law, but do deny their baptism under New Testament law.We do not deny that there were elders under the Mosaic economy, nor even deny the facts of uninspired history concerning the elders of the Jewish synagogue. We simply claim that the New Testament alone must define the office and functions of the elder in the Christian church.Christ himself appointed its Apostles and its first seventy elders. We not only stand upon the New Testament alone in repelling Old Testament institutions, in reselling apocryphal additions thereto, in repelling the historic synagogue of the interbiblical period as the model of the church, but to repel the binding authority of postapostolic history, whether embodied in the literature of the ante-Nicene fathers or in the decisions of councils, from the council at Nice. A.D. 325, to the Vatican Council. A.D. 1870.We allow not Clement, Polycarp, Hippolytus, Ignatius, Iren\u00e6us, Justin, Tertullian, Cyprian, Origen, Jerome, Eusebius, Augustine, Chrysostom, Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Henry VIII., Knox or Wesley either to determine what is New Testament law or to make law for us.In determining the office and functions of a bishop, we consider neither the Septuagint episcopos, nor the Gentile episcopos, nor the developed episcopos of the early Christian centuries.- To Be ContinuedPresented 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. 6-7Note from Tom: A NT Church is never legislative but executive (executors; the NT is the last will & testament (covenant) of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n