Is anyone using a LBC1689 with updated language? If so, has it been checked thoroughly to see if it rings true to the original? Is it in print or a free download? I'm curious because I have a download, but have no knowledge of the revisor and the group he is with. I don't want to use something that was biased or intentionally modified.

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Rich Koster
1689'er
Browns Mills NJ USA
Often Goofy Reformed Eccentric
Romans 7:14-25

I haven't used it.

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Conscience may lash us, but it cannot replenish a languishing life. Conscience may be God's word and minister to you, telling you of your faults and your follies and your destitution. It may point out, but it will never supply you. Christ must give you new life. Hart has well expressed it: "He to the feeble and the faint, His mighty aid makes known; and when their languid life is spent, supplies it with His own." - J. K. Popham

Here are a couple of efforts.

Founders Ministries | A Faith to Confess: The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith

Modern 1689 Confession

The second link has a Word.doc to the right that can be downloaded. One of the other links there appears to be broken.

Enjoy!

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For the Glory of our King,
Joe Johnson
Slave of Christ, husband, father, Preacherboy at Cornerstone Community Church, Escanaba, MI. and TMS graduate. Personal website - SoundLife.org

I do not know, and I do not say, that a person cannot believe in Revelation and in evolution, too, for a man may believe that which is infinitely wise and also that which is only asinine. ~ CHS

I believe that's what Dr. James White quoted from in Debating Calvinism when he quoted the confession, but I don't have the book (borrowed it from church library).

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Jake; Hold to Original WCF, member of SBC; Greater Atlanta, Georgia Area

The cross does not give us a minor shift or two with regard to a few of our ethical and moral and religious values; the cross radically disrupts the very center and citadel of your life from self to Christ. —Albert N. Martin

Carey Publications' A Faith to Confess: The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, Rewritten in Modern English is very trustworthy. The revision was done by S.M. Houghton, who edited for, and published a couple of books with, the Banner of Truth Trust.

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Nathan Tyler
Reformed Baptist
University of Toronto (Student: Hons. B.A. in Philosophy)
Ontario, Canada

1689'er

http://nathantyler.wordpress.com

If you linked to the one I listed in the baptist forum http://www.puritanboard.com/f113/ple...-1689-a-50535/ it was done by an Elder in a Reformed Baptist Church in Alabama. He is looking for a critique and recommendations. He is also the moderator of the RBLISTthat use to be linked to the Founders Ministry, if I am not mistaken.

Here is the Carey Publications one that was put into modern English in 1975.
Founders Ministries | A Faith to Confess: The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith

You might also find this interesting. It is a comparative of the Confessions.
Tabular Comparison of 1646 WCF, 1658 Savoy Declaration, the 1677/1689 LBCF, and the 1742 PCF

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R. Martin Snyder
1689er
http://www.puritanboard.com/blogs/puritancovenanter/

"Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation."
William Symington

Click to get:Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Rich,

I use the original text
see here The BCF Assistant - Table of Contents

You can download it as a program here A Reformed Baptist's Disk

What I've done is copied the text, formatted it in a Word.doc, printed it out "booklet" style, punched it and placed it in my Levenger Circa notebook (junior size) - very handy
Did the same with our two Particular Baptist Catechisms

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junior
Deacon
First Baptist Church of Richland Hills, Texas
Owning the 1677 Baptist Confession of Faith, 1680 Orthodox Catechism, & 1693 Baptist Catechism

There is a Baptist Forum here??
I've been using that modern English one at Founders. It's been easy to use, for me, which is great.

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Rachel
Baptist Church, Central FL
“A man’s free will cannot cure him even of a toothache, or of a sore finger and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul! The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hands of his own boasted free will.” - Augustus Toplady (1740-1778)

The First link from Founder's Ministries produces a very nice modern translation (1975 Carey Publications ed.),Check it out it's worth considering!
SGCB | Carey Publications

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Brian
Grace Bible Church;E.Bridgewater
East Bridgewater MA
http://www.gracebiblehome.org

I'm going to do the second download. Hopefully its PDF so it's Mac friendly, the window looks like a PC page.

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Founders looks like a potential for ordering a hardcopy. The downloads are chapter by chapter, so it would take a while to compile the freeware sites.

Keep in mind that the Carey version is copyrighted.

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Bill Brown
Elder
Reformed Baptist
Maryland

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?
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Rich,

I've already compiled everything from the Reformed Baptist's Disk into one document, see here
Particular Baptist Readings Th'eternal Promise

I downloaded it (Ref B disc) and found out it is formatted for Windows. Oh well.

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I only knock off freeware or shareware. The only copyrighted stuff I ever knocked off was after asking permission & getting it to make a copy for the entire elder board on a 6DVD series about the NAR. I even deleted the stuff covered under the CCLI agreement from our former congregation when we left. I agree with you that the Jolly Roger should not fly over any Christian computers.

I found one under a Creative Commons license. Anyone familiar with the restrictions on that ?