The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
The Particular Baptists · 1689
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, with the Baptist Catechism and An Orthodox Catechism.
- Lived
- 1677–1689
- Where
- London, England
- In the library
- 1 book
Author
The Particular Baptists
The London Baptist churches behind the 1689 Confession of Faith.
The Particular Baptists were English Baptists who held, with other Reformed Protestants, that Christ died for a particular people. In 1677, while dissenters could still be fined and jailed for meeting, a group of their London churches published a confession of faith. They based it closely on the Westminster Confession (1646) and the Congregationalists' Savoy Declaration (1658), and changed it mainly on baptism and the church.
After the Act of Toleration of 1689, messengers from over a hundred churches met in London in September and approved the confession. Thirty-seven ministers and messengers signed it on behalf of the churches, among them William Kiffin, Hanserd Knollys and Benjamin Keach. It has been known since as the Second London Confession, or the 1689 Baptist Confession.