1. Regulars & Separates: Two expressions of the one faith BAPTIST HISTORY LESSON 22

3. Great Awakening & George Whitefield New Lights Old Lights 1767 formation Warren Association REGULAR BAPTISTS More urban Less accepting of emotionalism Greater emphasis on education

4. Shubal Stearns (1706-1773) 1745 converted; joined Separate Congregational Church 1751 rejected infant baptism 1754 moved Opekon, Virginia; joined Baptist Church affiliated w/ Philadelphia Association November, 1755 moved Sandy Creek area of North Carolina 1758: Sandy Creek Association Daniel Marshall (1706-1784) 1744 heard Whitefield; saw the promise of ‘later-day-glory’ 1754 moved Virginia; married Martha Stearns 1755 moved North Carolina 1726 converted; became deacon in Presbyterian church

5. Ministry of Daniel Marshall Abbots Creek, Davidson County, NC Virginia: preaching tour South Carolina: Beaver Creek Horse Creek Georgia:arrested Parish of St. Paul 1770 Kiokee

6. Nine ‘rites’ practiced in Sandy Creek Baptism Lords Supper Love Feasts Laying on of hands Washing feet Anointing the sick Right hand of fellowship Kiss of charity Devoting children Women addressed mixed congregations; ‘exhorters’ Sandy Creek Tradition vs. The Charleston Tradition

7. 3.That Adam fell from his original state of purity, and that his sin is imputed to his posterity; that human nature is corrupt, and that man, of his own free will and ability, is impotent to regain the state in which he was primarily placed. 4. We believe in election from eternity, effectual calling by the Holy Spirit, and justification in his sight only by imputation of Christ righteousness. And we believe that they who are thus elected, effectually called, and justified, will persevere through grace to the end, that none of them be lost. 4. We believe in the everlasting love of God to his people, and the eternal election of a definite number of the human race, to grace and glory: And that there was a covenant of Grace or redemption made between the Father and the Son, before the world began, in which salvation is secure, and that they in particular are redeemed. 6. We believe that all those who were chosen in Christ, will be effectually called, regenerated, converted, sanctified, and supported by the spirit and power of God, so that they shall persevere in grace and not one of them be finally lost. Principles of Faith of The Sandy Creek Association (1816) Confession of the Georgia Baptist Association (1784)

8. Holding believers' baptism; laying on of hands; particular election of grace by predestination of God in Christ; effectual calling by the Holy Ghost; free justification through the imputed righteousness of Christ; progressive sanctification through God’s grace and truth; the final perseverance, or continuance of the saints in grace; the resurrection of these bodies after death, at that day which God has appointed to judge the quick and the dead by Jesus Christ, by the power of God, and by the resurrection of Christ; and life everlasting. Amen. ‘The followers of Stearns helped bring into practice the evangelistic convictions of the Regulars; the confessional detail of the Regulars helped give expression to the theological convictions of the Separates’ Thomas Nettles The Baptists, Vol. 2, pg 175 ’ Sandy Creek church covenant written by Shubal Stearns in 1757; reproduced in covenant of Grassy Creek church Italics are words George W. Pascal is sure Stearns did/could not write!