[quote:84fa2d0eec][i:84fa2d0eec]Originally posted by duke[/i:84fa2d0eec]

Your three requirements - 1689 Conf., traditional worship, and cessationist - sounds like a reformed baptist of the Met Tab variety. So if reformed baps are not sending their men to any of the colleges I mentioned then it is unlikely that any would come out. Duke [/quote:84fa2d0eec]

True - so you ask yourself 'what is going on?'. I believe that because of the paucity of what is available many men are not getting a formal training in the UK these days.

'A reformed baptist of the met tab variety' - interesting thought, but there are a decent number of churches in the same 'constitutency' in the UK still (partially evidenced by the fact that the Met Tab School of Theology is the largest 'Reformed' conference in the country) who seek the same things broadly speaking - and most of them have Pastors, many of whom have come out of the seminaries and colleges mentioned.

So what does this indicate? That seminaries and colleges were once more distinctive, or that for many these days the needs of their churches prevent them from going away to study... or...