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By His Grace and for His Glory: A Historical, Theological and Practical Study of the Doctrines of Grace in Baptist Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Thomas Nettles presents a study of the doctrines of grace in the Baptist tradition. Tracing Baptist history from the times of the earliest Baptists, Nettles examines the development of these doctrines in a theological and practical sense, as well as historical. His thorough study introduces readers to important figures and movements in the tradition along the way, with portraits of leaders...

It is with difficulty that men strive to define “Baptists.” Some obviously find that the blast of the Baptist trumpet and the boom of the denominational drum clash incongruously with what they view as twentieth-century faith. But those who prize the name do so as one of several in their history, not all of which were fondly given or received. The vernacular description “commonly called Anabaptists” appears at the front of the 1644 London Baptist Confession. This colloquial error reappears
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