This is a facsimile edition of the first edition of the Second London Baptist Confession. We call it the '1689' but that was the year it was accepted as the official confession of the Particular Baptist Churches. It was penned and published in 1677. The original edition has an introduction to show the Baptists were not trying to distance themselves from the Reformation, or Protestantism, but sought to embrace the recovery of the gospel and the movement as their own. This edition also has an important appendix virtually unknown to Reformed Baptists today. The appendix argues for an impartial consideration of the Confession and for a Reformed and Baptistic understanding of the Covenant. The text was copied, scanned, cleaned and opaqued in order to present this original document to the world. Read the Confession with the original spelling, misspellings, content, and punctuation, before any subtle changes were made.
