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     The modern cry: "Less creed and more liberty," is a degeneration from the vertebrate to the jellyfish, and means less unity and less morality, and it means more heresy. Definitive truth does not create heresy - it only exposes and corrects. Shut off the creed and the Christian world would fill up with heresy unsuspected and uncorrected, but none the less deadly.
- B. H. Carroll, An Interpretation of the English Bible, Ephesians 4.

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Creeds and Confessions
American Baptist Memorial, 1856
Basil Manly, Editor

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B. H. Carroll on Creeds and Confessions

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Baptists, the Bible and confessions -
The need for statements of faith
by Gregory A. Wills

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The Use of Confessions of Faith in Baptist History
By Steve Weaver
A PDF Link

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Why a Seventeenth-Century Baptist Used the Creeds
By Steve Weaver, Frankfort, Kentucky

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Columbia Baptist Church (OH)
Articles of Faith, 1790
The First Church in the Northwest Territory

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The Constitution of the Columbus Baptist Association (OH)
At the Time of its Organization, 1818

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Franklin (KY) Baptist Association
Circular Letter, 1826
[The Importance of a Creed]
By Elder Silas M. Noel

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Pealing a Pretense
(A Review of an Essay by a SBC Church Covenant Critic)
By Rosco Brong, Former Dean, 1969
Lexington Baptist College, KY

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