- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introductory Note
- 1 ‘The God of the hills’
- 2 ‘Destructive of the authority of divine revelation’
- 3 ‘The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its stand’
- 4 ‘An inspired communication from the Deity … Or … Nothing’
- 5 ‘The seal and servant of Christianity’
- 6 ‘An easy good-natured God’
- 7 ‘The hateful mystery’
- 8 ‘The sceptical tendencies of modern times’
- 9 ‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
- 10 A ‘conspiracy to undermine our holy faith’
- 1 Church Membership and Chapel Attendance
- 2 ‘Conversion is not necessary to regeneration’
- 3 Nonconformity’s Shrinking Consituency
- 4 ‘Influential families … lost to nonconformity’
- 5 The Failure of Success
- 6 The ‘most spiritually destitute and degraded’
- 7 ‘Diversity of opinion … no bar to Christian communion’
- 8 ‘We must not leave Satan … to provide the recreations of life’
- 9 The ‘social and intellectual well-being of our members’
- 10 ‘A liberal education’
- 11 ‘Winning souls’ or ‘unlimited speculation’?
- 12 Frugality and Overwork
- 13 ‘The future rests with the Free Churches’
- 1 ‘The largest and widest Church ever established’
- 2 ‘Once bit, twice shy’
- 3 ‘A torrent of gin and beer’
- 4 ‘The right of the people to judge for themselves’
- 5 ‘A mutual benefit association’
- 6 Making ‘men moral by act of parliament’
- 7 ‘To reconstruct the existing organization of society’
- 8 ‘A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God’
- 9 ‘The thunder of British guns’
- 10 ‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
- Appendix
- Index
‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
The Down Grade
- Chapter:
- (p.65) 9 ‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
- Source:
- The Dissenters Volume III
- Author(s):
Michael R. Watts
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on the clash between leaders of the Baptist Union over religious beliefs, specifically those between Charles Haddon Spurgeon and John Clifford. Whereas Spurgeon believed that it was not possible ‘to speak too terribly of the misery of the finally impenitent’, Clifford refused to speculate on ‘the exact duration of future punishment’, and insisted that the topic should be treated as an open question among General Baptists. While Spurgeon refused to tolerate, as members of his church, any who disagreed with him on future punishment, Clifford declined to impose a credal test on his members.
Keywords: religious dissent, religious beliefs, Baptists, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Clifford
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introductory Note
- 1 ‘The God of the hills’
- 2 ‘Destructive of the authority of divine revelation’
- 3 ‘The ground on which Rational Christianity may firmly take its stand’
- 4 ‘An inspired communication from the Deity … Or … Nothing’
- 5 ‘The seal and servant of Christianity’
- 6 ‘An easy good-natured God’
- 7 ‘The hateful mystery’
- 8 ‘The sceptical tendencies of modern times’
- 9 ‘The heresies of the Baptist Union’
- 10 A ‘conspiracy to undermine our holy faith’
- 1 Church Membership and Chapel Attendance
- 2 ‘Conversion is not necessary to regeneration’
- 3 Nonconformity’s Shrinking Consituency
- 4 ‘Influential families … lost to nonconformity’
- 5 The Failure of Success
- 6 The ‘most spiritually destitute and degraded’
- 7 ‘Diversity of opinion … no bar to Christian communion’
- 8 ‘We must not leave Satan … to provide the recreations of life’
- 9 The ‘social and intellectual well-being of our members’
- 10 ‘A liberal education’
- 11 ‘Winning souls’ or ‘unlimited speculation’?
- 12 Frugality and Overwork
- 13 ‘The future rests with the Free Churches’
- 1 ‘The largest and widest Church ever established’
- 2 ‘Once bit, twice shy’
- 3 ‘A torrent of gin and beer’
- 4 ‘The right of the people to judge for themselves’
- 5 ‘A mutual benefit association’
- 6 Making ‘men moral by act of parliament’
- 7 ‘To reconstruct the existing organization of society’
- 8 ‘A most astonishing opening, furnished by the providence of God’
- 9 ‘The thunder of British guns’
- 10 ‘The descendants of men like Oliver Cromwell’
- Appendix
- Index
