A Review of Some Current-Day References to
the Fulton Convention Recommendations
The following quotations were taken from a Liberal website. It appears that many of the Liberal brethren who support a mission system such as White Unto Harvest, and acceptance of men who teach doctrines contrary to "time salvation" (as quoted below), refer to the Fulton Convention's Recommendations to justify themselves.
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There are a few quotes that I wish to call to your attention. Here is a powerful statement that continues to be of vital importance in our own day: "The gospel is God's appointed remedy for the correction of errors in his Church, and it is in every way sufficient to correct errors among the children of God, if lovingly and faithfully employed. When bars of fellowship are raised they exclude the erring from the God-appointed remedy for the corrections of their errors and render restoration hopeless."
Following is a part of what those brethren said about evangelism. "The work of an evangelist is indispensable. Without such work the gospel kingdom would be extended no farther, as it is the chief work of an evangelist to introduce the gospel where it is not known, and to organize churches."
Another important principle is brought forth in these words: "Restoration of Disorderly Churches is a subject that has given much concern to our people. (Remember this is being said in 1900) When churches are guilty of only irregularity in doctrine and practice and are willing to disclaim such irregularities and return to primitive order it our candid opinion that they should be received into the general fellowship of the denomination without being required to perform the impossible task of counteracting every individual irregularity."
These fifty-one ministers approved of the following statement: "We believe the Scriptures teach that there is a time salvation received by the heirs of God distinct from eternal salvation, which does depend upon their obedience. The people of God receive their rewards for obedience in this life only. We believe that the ability of the Christian is the unconditional gift of God."
On the important subject of predestination these fifty-one ministers recorded these words 100 years ago as to what Primitive Baptists believed then: "We do not believe that God has unconditionally, unlimitedly, and equally predestinated righteousness and unrighteousness. It is our belief that God has positively and effectually predestinated the eternal salvation of His people which were chosen in Christ before time." And they further said: "God's purpose concerning sin does not sustain the same relation to sin that it does to holiness. While we think that God's purpose concerning sin is more than barely permissive, it is such as to exclude all chance and uncertainty, yet we hold that God is in no sense the cause of sin."
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