the Ways and Worship of God: Collected Texts 1689 Baptist General Assembly

The founding documents of the 1689 Baptist General Assembly - the Confession, the Assembly's own Narrative, and a defense of gospel ministry - in one collected volume.In September 1689, messengers from more than one hundred Particular Baptist congregations across England and Wales met in London. Out of that gathering came the confessional and practical foundation of a movement. The Ways and Worship of God collects its key texts.At its heart is A Confession of Faith - the Second London Baptist Confession (1689), the most influential Baptist confession in the English-speaking world. Around it the volume gathers A Narrative of the Proceedings of the General Assembly, the Assembly's own record of its aims, its structure, and its resolutions; and The Gospel Minister's Maintenance Vindicated, a defense of the support owed to faithful ministers of the Word.Each text is presented in clean modern type with an editorial introduction, full scriptural and source notes, and a Scripture index - a single accessible entry point into the doctrine, order, and worship the 1689 Assembly professed.For readers of Baptist and Reformed history, confessional theology, the Second London Confession, and the shaping of English Dissent.