* The Lord's Supper - Communion *
* Baptists and the Ordinances *
Twenty-one Documents

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Closed Communion, a Hallmark of Southern Baptist Orthodoxy
By Ben Stratton

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The Circular Letter, 1811
"Open or Mixed Communion"
Salem Association of Baptists
Held at Lick Creek, Nelson, County, KY

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A Defence of Closed Communion
By Silas M. Noel
Franklin Baptist Association (KY)
Circular Letter, 1828

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The Lord's Supper
By Jesse Mercer (GA), 1833

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"Your Close Communion"
The Tennessee Baptist newspaper, 1848

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The Terms of Communion in the
Lord’s Supper: Scripturally Delineated
By Hezekiah Harvey, 1859

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The Lord's Supper
By James A. Kirtley
Northbend Baptist Association (KY)
Circular Letter, 1859

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The Communion Question Settled
By J. M. Pendleton, 1868

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Terms of Communion
Circular Letter
Greenup Baptist Association, KY, 1869

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How the Ordinances Should be Kept
J. M. Dawson
Owensboro, KY
Tennessee Baptist, 1870

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The Lord's Supper, 1873
Circular Letter
Campbell County (KY) Baptist Association

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Sketch of "Open Communion"
By J. M. Pendleton, 1889

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History of Infant Communion
By J. A. Kimball, 1889

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The Lord's Supper
By Wm. J. Simmons
The Negro Baptist Pulpit . . ., 1890

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Close Communion
By Prof. R. M. Dudley, D.D., 1890
Georgetown (KY) College

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Consistent Strict Communion and Inconsistent Loose Communion
By William Ashmore (1821-1898)
Foreign Missionary

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Why Close Communion And Not Open Communion
By O. L. Hailey, D.D., Editor
Arkansas Baptist newspaper, 1900

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Close Communion
By Rev. A. S Pettie, D.D., 1910

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The Lord's Supper - Close Communion
By Berlin Hisel, 1981

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The Church Ordinances
By R. Charles Blair, 1988

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Three Truths About the New Testament
Church from Acts 2:41-42
By Ben Stratton

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Is Close "Close-Communion" Justified?
By O. L. Rives

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