Theological Distinctives

The 1689 LBCF is a confessional document drawn up by Particular Baptists concerning doctrinal distinctives they deduced from Scripture. As with its predecessors: Westminster Confession and the Savoy Declaration, the role of a confession is not to replace Scripture as the rule of faith and conduct for Christians. Rather it serves as an aid in guarding from errant/ unorthodox readings of Scripture. A confessional document presupposes the confession that the Holy Spirit speaks to the Saints of all ages the same gospel, and thus safeguards orthodoxy.  For more information on the 1689 LBCF see The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (with Modern Features)

Borrowing from William Perkins' definition: A Reformed Catholic is “anyone that holds to the same necessary heads of religion with the Roman Church; yet so as he pares off and rejects all errors in doctrine whereby the said religion (Christian faith) is corrupted."[1] 

Reformed in holding to the 5 Solas; and catholic in its meaning "universal" - and in that sense being part of the church universal (LBCF 26.1). Ad Fontes in retrieving our Protestant heritage.

[1] William Perkins, “A Reformed Catholic” in The Works of William Perkins, Vol. 7, eds. Shawn D. Wright and Andrew S. Ballitch (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2019), 5.

Eschatology: Postmillennial

Soteriology: Calvinistic

Ecclesiology: Baptistic

Covenant Theology: 1689 Federalism

Textual Views: Majority Text

Doctrine of God: Classical Theist

Ethics: Theonomist

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