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Early Modern · drafted 1677; published 1689

The Second London Baptist Confession

The Particular Baptist churches of England

What it is

The Westminster Confession revised by Baptists, following it closely except on baptism, church government, and the relation of the magistrate to religion.

Why it lasted

The principal confession of Reformed Baptists worldwide, and a deliberate demonstration that Baptists were not heretics but Calvinists who differed on two points.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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