Baptist Larger Catechism

A few years ago I discovered the 17th century Particular Baptists, Reformed theology, and especially the 2nd London Baptist Confession. There’s such a wealth of Particular Baptist theological work out there, and a bit of a revival of interest in Baptist confessionalism as a whole. And for those who want to embrace the Baptist confessional tradition, we have our 2LCF and Keach’s Catechism (although the relationship between Keach and the catechism is a bit contested) as Baptist adaptations and revisions of the Westminster Confession and the Westminster Shorter Catechism — but there’s a conspicuous lack of Baptist Larger Catechism.

It’s since disappeared from the internet, but a few reformed Baptist types produced a Baptist Larger Catechism and published it online in 2015. It was available as a pdf from the author at theroadofgrace.wordpress.com, but since the site was taken down, it’s somewhere between very difficult and impossible to find.

Thankfully, when I first found it in 2017, I downloaded it, saved it to a flash drive, and forgot about it. I’ve just unearthed it, and in the absence of anywhere else online where it can be found, I’ve uploaded it here.

My sense is that the author’s intent (at least as expressed in the block quote from the author on Jason Delgado’s post) was to “pass down sound doctrine and tradition” — and so in the absence of explicit permission to publish this here, I am taking his tradition- and community-oriented spirit as implicit permission. With that caveat in mind, please do download and use this document insofar as it is helpful to you!


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