Notes And Thoughts On The Analogy Of Faith 4

Here are some final notes and thoughts on the Analogy of Faith and its connection to the Baptist faith.

Romans 12
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

And so, we find that the Analogy Of Faith is one of the key doctrines of the Calvinist theology. And we also find that such Calvinist doctrines were important to our Baptist forefathers. And we find examples of Calvinist doctrines firmly embedded in such Baptist documents as the 1689 London Baptist Confession Of Faith.

Following is a comment from Charles Spurgeon on the 1689 London Baptist Confession Of Faith. It shows the importance of the document and the importance of Calvinist thinking, at least in the 19th Century. It is a wonderful, general comment on this Calvinist, Baptist heritage, and a good conclusion for these posts on the Analogy of Faith.

Spurgeon Comments On The 1689 Baptist Confession Of Faith
This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness. It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured. We hold to the humbling truths of God's sovereign grace in the salvation of lost sinners. Salvation is through Christ alone and by faith alone.