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1. Lesson 12
The Marks of a New Testament
Baptist Church

2. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
"We believe with the heart & confess with the
mouth that there is but
(a) One god
(b) Creator & governor of all things
(c) Distinguished into father, Son, & Holy Spirit
(d) & that this is life eternal to know the only true
god & Jesus Christ whom he hath & that the rule
of this knowledge faith
(e)& obedience concerning the worship & service
of God & all other Christian duties is the written
word of God contained in the books of the old &
new testaments

3. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
(f) We believe Christ is the foundation laid by the
father
(g) Of whom Moses and the prophets wrote & the
apostles preached
(h) Who is that great prophet whom we are to
hear in all things
(i) Who hath perfectly revealed out of the bosom
of his father the whole word and will of god which
his servants are to know believe and obey

4. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
(j) Christ his commission to his disciples is to
teach & baptize (k) And those that gladly received
the word & are baptized are saints by calling & fit
matter for a visible church
(l) And a competent number of such joined
together in covenant & fellowship of the gospel
are a Church of Christ
(m) We believe that a church thus constituted are
to walk in all the appointments of Christ

5. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
(n) And have power from him to choose from
among themselves there own officers whom the
gospel allows to administer in the ordinances of
Christ among them whom they may depute or
ordain to this end
(o) And this church hath power to receive into
their fellowship visible believers
(p) & if any prove scandalous obstinate & wicked
to put forth such from amongst them
(q) When the church is met together they may all
prophesy one by one that all may all learn & all
may be comforted

6. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
(r) & they ought to meet together the first day of
the week to attend upon the Lord in all his holy
ordinances continuing in the Apostles doctrine &
fellowship & breaking bread & praise
(s) We acknowledge magistracy to be an
ordinance of god & to submit ourselves to them in
the lord not because of wrath only but also for
conscience sake
(t) Thus we desire to give unto god that which is
Gods & unto Caesar that which is Caesar's & to
every man that which belongeth to them

7. First Baptist Church
of Boston 1663
(u) Endeavoring always to have a clear conscience
void of offence towards god & towards men
having hope in God that the resurrection of the
dead bee of the just unto life & of the unjust unto
condemnation everlasting
(v) if any take this to be heresy then doe wee with
the apostles confess that after the way which they
call heresy we worship the father of our Lord
Jesus Christ believing all things that are written
in the law & in the prophets & in the psalms"

8. I. MARKS OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT CHURCH
1. Its Head and Founder--CHRIST.
2. Its only rule of faith and practice--The
Bible.
3. Its name--“Church," "Churches."
4. Its polity--Congregational-all members
equal.
5. Its members--Only saved people.
6. Its ordinances--Believers’ baptism
followed by the Lord’s Supper.
7. Its officers--Pastors and Deacons

9. I. MARKS OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT CHURCH
8. Its work--getting folks saved, baptizing
them (with a baptism that meets all the
requirements of God's Word), teaching
them ("to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you").
9. Its financial plan--Tithes and Offerings
10. Its weapons of warfare--spiritual, not
carnal.
11. Its Independence--Separation of
Church and State.

10. II. SOME UNERRING,
INFALLIBLE MARKS
1. Christ, the author of this religion,
organized His followers or disciples into a
Church.
2. This organization or church, according
to the Scriptures and according to the
practice of the Apostles and early
churches, was given two kinds of officers
and only two
3. The churches in their government and
discipline to be entirely separate and
independent of each other,

11. II. SOME UNERRING,
INFALLIBLE MARKS
4. To the church were given two
ordinances and only two, Baptism and the
Lord's Supper.
5. Only the "saved" were to be received as
members of the church
6. The inspired scriptures,
7. Christ Jesus, the founder of this
organization and the savior of its
members, to be their only priest and king,

12. II. SOME UNERRING,
INFALLIBLE MARKS
8. This religion of Christ to be individual,
personal, and purely voluntary or through
persuasion.
9. ... neither Christ nor His apostles, ever
gave to His followers, what is known today
as a denominational name,
10. Complete separation of Church and
State.

13. III. B.A.P.T.I.S.T.S
Biblical Authority
Autonomy (independence) of the local church
Priesthood of the believer (Equality of members)
Two offices: Pastor and Deacon
Individual Soul Liberty
(The right to worship God according to the dictates
of one's own conscience)
Saved, Baptist Church membership
Two ordinances: Baptism and the Lord's Supper
Separation of church and State