Orthodox Creed

The Orthodox Creed, also known as the Orthodox Confession of Faith, shortly the Orthodox Confession, or even as the Buckingham Creed or as the 1679 Baptist Confession of Faith (in modern times), is a General Baptist confession of faith.^[1]^[2] Drafted up after a Baptist regional assembly held in Buckinghamshire in 1678, the Orthodox Creed was intended to be an official creed of the General Assembly of General Baptists in England; it was adopted by the Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire Baptist Associations, and was influential within Baptist churches in England and America.^[3]

Content

The Orthodox Confession is organized as an "essay to unite and confirm all true Protestants in the fundamental articles of the Christian religion". The confession includes 50 articles on the Triune God, christology, predestination,^[4] covenant theology (teaching Baptist Federalism), free will, justification and santification, Sunday Sabbatarianism, Eucharistic sacramentology, Baptism, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Apostles Creed, and many other doctrines and practices.

^ Fiddes, Paul S. (1 September 2007). Tracks and Traces: Baptist Identity in Church and Theology. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-59752-729-3.
^ Taylor, Adam (1818). The History of the English General Baptists. T. Bore, Raven Row, Mile-End Turnpike. p. 225.
^ "An orthodox creed: or, a protestant confession of faith" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-11.
^ Wood, James Hurford (1847). A Condensed History of the General Baptists of the New Connexion: Preceded by Historical Sketches of the Early Baptists. Simpkin, Marshall, and Company. p. 131.