London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)

This repository contains several representations of the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, a document written in 1677 and published in 1689 by Calvinistic Baptists in London. The LBCF is currently used by many Reformed Baptist churches as a statement of faith.

Here are the different formats available:

• Web page with scripture references
• Markdown (without Scripture References)
• Markdown (with Scripture References)
• LaTeX
  • PDF, compiled from the LaTeX source
  • Alternative webpage (HTML), also compiled from LaTeX using HTLatex (requires accompanying CSS file)
• Microsoft Word
  • PDF, compiled from the MS Word Doc
  • Rich Text Format (RTF), converted from the aforementioned Word document
• JSON

Creating the PDF and HTML from LaTeX Source

Collated and typesetted by Nathaniel Schmidt

Although this may seem complicated at face-value, this can be made quite easy with a text editor such as TeXWorks or TeXLive. TeXWorks is probably the easier to install and comes automatically installed with packages such as MiKTeX on Windows. You can probably compile from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as well, provided you install any of the relevant extensions.

These packages and editors usually require external packages to be installed before you compile a document. The LBCF LaTeX document requires the Hyperref and the Tabularx packages as base requirements for it, so you may have to accept a prompt to install it, unless you have set external packages to install automatically.

Installing can probably be done via a graphical desktop interface; however, it should be as simple as the following via command line : cd (change directories / folders) to the folder where the document is located and just type

pdflatex lbcf.tex

to create the PDF from a text-based console or terminal, such as the terminal in Mac OS or Linux, or otherwise you can use the Windows Command Prompt or Powershell. Alternatively, with MiKTeX you can use Texify instead of Pdflatex if you wish.

To create the html, just call

htlatex lbcf.tex

.

Please preserve the file extension if you make any changes.

Issues and feature requests

Please use the issue tracker in GitHub or email lars@walen.me to report any issues you find, and to suggest new features.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork this repository and make a pull request with your changes.