The Baptist Confession of 1689

The Second London Baptist Confession (1689), ch. 29

Baptist ministers of London, 1677; reissued 1689

Upright, short, and dripping at the cuffs.

Catch rate: 135 / 255
Base research: 120
Stat total: 228

Base stats

Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.

Stamina54

Contend60

Defend64

Popularity50

Total228

Why these numbers

The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.

Stamina 54

STAMINA — Low. It is one short chapter.

Contend 60

CONTEND — Moderate. It says exactly what it means and no more.

Defend 64

DEFEND — High. It is a confession, so every clause was chosen with care.

Popularity 50

POPULARITY — Moderate. It has been reprinted for three centuries.

Cited for this book

The Second London Confession was drawn up by Particular Baptist pastors in 1677 and reissued in 1689 when toleration came. It follows the Westminster Confession closely and changes it at only a few places. Its chapter on baptism is one of them, and it says baptism is for those who profess faith and is done by immersion.

Moves learned

By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.

Lv	Move	Type	Cat.	Pwr	Acc	PP
1	Random Verse	Bible	Argument	10	100%	30
1	The Only Proper Subjects	Ecclesiology	Argument	62	100%	20
9	Immersion, or Dipping	Ecclesiology	Argument	66	100%	15
17	A Sign of Fellowship in His Death	Soteriology	Argument	56	100%	25
30	Chapter…	Bible	Scripture	—	—	12

The quotes behind its moves

How to read these. In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other. Each thing a book can do in a debate is a move, and most moves carry a real quotation — the words the book puts on the table when it uses that move.

Strong against lists the opposing books and arguments a move was written to answer. Used against one of them, it hits much harder than usual: ×2 means twice the normal force, ×4 four times. It is the game’s way of saying: this is the sentence that answers that argument. Open an entry to read why.

“Those who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, and obedience to, our Lord Jesus Christ, are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.”
The Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), ch. 29, “Of Baptism,” paragraph 2, public domain.public domain

The Only Proper Subjects

EcclesiologyArgument · power 62 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe Baptist confession of 1689 on who is to be baptised. Those who profess repentance toward God, and faith in and obedience to Christ. It is the sentence the whole chapter turns on.

“Immersion, or dipping of the person in water, is necessary to the due administration of this ordinance.”
The Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), ch. 29, “Of Baptism,” paragraph 4, public domain.public domain

Immersion, or Dipping

EcclesiologyArgument · power 66 · 100% accurate

In the gameThe same confession on the mode. It uses the word necessary, which the Westminster Confession, written forty years earlier, does not.

“Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with him, in his death and resurrection”
The Baptist Confession of Faith (1689), ch. 29, “Of Baptism,” paragraph 1, public domain.public domain

A Sign of Fellowship in His Death

SoteriologyArgument · power 56 · 100% accurate

In the gameHow the confession opens. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, and a sign to the person baptised of fellowship with Christ in his death and resurrection.