Isaac Backus (1724 - 1806) was formost a pastor; but his importance to American Baptists and the Church in general is immense. The role which Backus played during the formative years of his denomination in America was so crucial that he has been termed the father of the American Baptists. Roger Williams may have been the biological father of Baptists in America but Backus stands as their adoptive father. What Williams began, Backus consolidated and gave a clear mandate to. In particular, Backus restored to Baptists their theological roots which had been mostly lost in the years after Williams. He became the cheif spokesman for the 'evangelical calvinism' which replaced the Arminianism prevalent among the older Baptist churches. In spite of the Calvinism of the earliest New England Baptists, a shift to the Arminian outlook had been completed by the time of the Awakening. The 'Separate Baptists' largely followed the 'evangelical Calvinism' of Edwards. Backus was their cheif spokesman, articulating in the Baptist context the themes of sovereign grace. This book brings together some of his shorter works that clearly demonstrate that the work of redemption is the work of the sovereign God.