Confession of Faith (1689)

The Confession of Faith of 1689, also known as the Second London Confession of Faith or the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, is a confession of faith written by English Particular Baptists who held to a Calvinistic view of salvation and to a covenantal theology that departed from the Westminster Confession's own framework. It was first published in 1677 and formally endorsed in 1689. When the Philadelphia Baptist Association in the American colonies revised it in the eighteenth century, adding an allowance for singing hymns and psalms during the Lord's Supper and making the laying on of hands after baptism optional, the revised text became known as the Philadelphia Confession of Faith. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/