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The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace, Opened and Vindicated from Holy Scripture

by Issac Backus

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An outstanding reprinted volume, in large print (16 point), covering these contents:

* The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace: Opened and Vindicated (1771)

* A Brief Account of the Sentiments of the Churches of Early New England

* Election, Perseverance, and God's Decrees (1789)

* The Sovereign Decrees of God (1773)

* The Great Falling Away: The Last Days in Fulfillment (1773)

Isaac Backus (1724-1806) was foremost a pastor; but his importance to American Baptists and the Church in general is immense. "The role which Backus played during the formative years of his denomination in America was so crucial that he has been termed 'the father of American Baptists'." - a title often given to Roger Williams but just as well earned by Backus.

What Williams began, Backus consolidated and gave a clear mandate to. In particular, Backus restored to Baptists their theological roots, which had been mostly lost in the years after Williams. He, became the chief spokesman for the 'evangelical Calvinism' which replaced the Arminianism prevalent among the older Baptist churches.

In spite of the Calvinism of the earliest New England Baptists, a shift to the Arminian outlook had been completed by the time of the Awakening. The 'Separate Baptists' largely followed the 'evangelical Calvinism' of Jonathan Edwards. Backus was their chief spokesman, articulating in the Baptist context the themes of sovereign grace which had been so eloquently espoused by Edwards."

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The Doctrine of Sovereign Grace, Opened and Vindicated from Holy Scripture

Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 152
Publisher: Solid Ground Christian Books
ISBN: 9781-59925-2087