In the original indenture that outlines the lease and trustees of our present building certain interesting points are made concerning the nature of the congregation worshipping here. Amongst the legal jargon we find words such as these - The promises are to be employed ...
“For the use and benefit of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters attending (and to attend from time to time during the said term) the worship of God at the said chapel, maintaining the sole authority of the Holy Scriptures in every matter of faith and practice and that interpretation of the Holy Scriptures which is usually reputed Evangelical in contradistinction from the teaching of Unitarianism and the Church of Rome”.
Ministers of the church and those who ‘officiate’ must maintain: “The aforesaid interpretation of the Holy Scriptures and administer the rite of baptism by immersion only to those who profess their own faith in the Lord Jesus”.
Here we have something to thank God for. The same teachings that were preached and believed then are preached and believed here now. Sadly, in many Baptist churches that has not been the case. Despite an excellent beginning and. foundation the truths of historic Christianity have ceased to be preached and men and women have perished from a famine of the Word of God.
Let’s thank the Lord for our godly heritage and pray for grace to continue to maintain the evangelical faith in our own day.
