JM
Puritan Board Doctor
I see many NCT folks using the First London Confession as their confession and believe the 89 is too Puritan and Reformed. A good case was made for the framers of both confessions being in agreement on doctrine (can't find link) with the second a better and more detailed confession so I'll ask, did they believe in strict communion? It seems strict communion was strengthened in the 1646 revision.
The 46 then goes on to state;
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XXXIX. That Baptism is an Ordinance of the new Testament, given by Christ, to be dispensed only upon persons professing faith, or that are Disciples, or taught, who upon a profession of faith, ought to be baptized "and after to partake of the Lord's Supper."
The 46 then goes on to state;
XL. The way and manner of the dispensing of this Ordinance the Scripture holds out to be dipping or plunging the whole body under water: it being a sign, must answer the thing signified, which are these: first, the washing the whole soul in the blood of Christ: Secondly, that interest the Saints have in the death, burial, and resurrection; thirdly, together with a confirmation of our faith, that as certainly as the body is buried under water, and riseth again, so certainly shall the bodies of the Saints be raised by the power of Christ in the day of the resurrection, to reign with Christ. [The word Baptizo, signifying to dip under water, yet so as with convenient garments both upon the administrator and subject, with all modesty.]
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