The 1689 Handbook

C. H. Spurgeon famously described the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith as an ‘excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us’ and a ‘body of divinity in small compass’. In an age of spiritual confusion, it is as necessary as ever that churches be prepared to state clearly what they believe, and the use of a historic confession is valuable in showing that the church is not formulating some novel interpretation of the Bible.