Foothills Reformed Baptist Fellowship
An inquiry into the establishing of a Reformed Baptist Church
in Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, or Spartanburg
Counties of South Carolina.
Second London Baptist Confession of Faith
Confessional
A Reformed Baptist Church is Confessional
“This little volume is not issued as an authoritative rule, or code of faith, whereby you are to be fettered, but as an assistance to you in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness. Here the younger members of our church will have a body of divinity in small compass, and by means of the Scriptural proofs, will be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in them.” – C. H. Spurgeon
Covenantal
A Reformed Baptist Church is Convenantal
“The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto Him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which He hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.” 2LBC 7.1
Classical
A Reformed Baptist Church is Classical
“The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; a whose subsistence is in and of Himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but Himself; a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortality. . .” 2LBC 2.1
“Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you exhorting that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.” – Jude 1:3 (LSB)
“THE great Interest of Man’s present Peace, and eternal Happiness, is most nearly concerned in Religion; and all true Religion, since the fall of Man, must be taught by divine Revelation, which God by diverse parts, and after a diverse manner hath given out to his Church, causing this Light gradually to increase, until the whole Mystery of his Grace was perfectly revealed in and by Jesus Christ; in whom are hid all the treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge.”
Nehemiah Cox
A Discourse of the Covenants