From the Preface: By showing that the original signers of the confession
were evangelistic and missions-minded and by showing
that those who held to the confession in North America
were also evangelistic and missions-minded, it is hoped
that we can lay to rest the mistaken notion that those
who held to the 1689 Baptist Confession and its theological
descendants in America - the Philadelphia and
Charleston Confessions - were unconcerned and
uninvolved in the work of missions and church planting.