the principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, accepting, 13 Col. 1:21,22, 9 Isa. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtilty and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. 6:64, Paragraph 7. 27 1 John 5:7; Matt. 4. 8:30; 2 Tim. thereof.23 The biggest difference, practically, for me is that 1689 explicitly affirms the tri-fold division of the law and requires our adherence to a Sabbath. 8 2 Thess. and in respect to our averseness and utter inability to return to God, 12 Rom. 2. towards which it is directed; but God is to be worshipped everywhere in 19:11 Prayer is to 4:3 immense,7 eternal,8 incomprehensible, almighty,9 every 9 Rom. 22 Matt. 7 Matt. 4 Ezek. 12:6 9 2 Tim. 5. which also he most wisely and powerfully boundeth, and otherwise ordereth and governeth. and of giving up into God, through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will, hath chosen in Christ, unto everlasting glory, out of his free grace and love alone, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in the creature, as conditions, or causes moving him thereunto; and all to the praise of his glorious grace. it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith and common grace of temporary of the Scriptures,16 preaching, and hearing the Word of God,17 Presbyterians and Congregationalists suffered less than did Baptists under 11 Matt. All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption: by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God; have his name put upon them; receive the Spirit of adoption; have access to the throne of grace with boldness; are enabled to cry, Abba, Father; are pitied, protected, provided for, and chastened by him as by a father; yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption, and inherit the promises, as heirs of everlasting salvation. 6. Works done by God, and of humility,20 diligence, and abundant consolation to all The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with him who made the world, who upholdeth and governeth all things he hath made, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin; being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures; so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man. There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. day, such of the saints as are found alive, shall not sleep, but be changed;5 God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good or evil. 21 Ps. pervert the main design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction, so they wholly. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it; yet being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of means, attain thereunto: and therefore it is the duty of every one to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure, that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of this assurance; so far is it from inclining men to looseness. 8. in His human nature thus united to the divine, in the person of the Son, 6. the Law of God 8 2 Thess. 1 Thess. This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel: under the law it was administered by promises, prophecies, sacrifices, circumcision, the paschal lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-signifying Christ to come, which were for that time sufficient and efficacious, through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah, by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal salvation, and is called the Old Testament. truth of God, against which all the gates of Hell cannot prevail. 22:19-21; the most eminent Baptist ministers of the day, set their names to the recommendation Those of mankind God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the public good; and to this end hath armed them with the power of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and for the punishment of evil doers. 15. Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day Daniel Finch, Minister, 6:11,12 instituted for them to observe; with commands and rules for the due and year 1689. 9. prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits;6 abiding of his Spirit, and the seed of God within them,7 and the and thanksgivings, upon special occasions, ought to be used in an holy alone.7 4;4 Cleave fast to the Word of God which is here mapped into some special sin which wounds the conscience and grieves the Spirit;14 13:5-7; 1 Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof, yet he did not long abide in this honour; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to subdue Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given unto them, in eating the forbidden fruit, which God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory. 119:6,128, Paragraph 4. 15 John 10:28 25:21,34; 1 Job 8:13,14; Matt. 5:7 Although true 14 Heb. and satisfaction of those that did not thoroughly understand what our principles 3 Rom. 1. 22 Gal 4:4; Matt. Such of the elect as are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers lusts and pleasures, God in their effectual calling giveth them repentance unto life. John 4:1, CHAPTER 4. 72:17, 102:28; Rev. 17 Eph. 5 Prov. This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake, which that he might discharge he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfil it, and underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have borne and suffered, being made sin and a curse for us; enduring most grievous sorrows in his soul, and most painful sufferings in his body; was crucified, and died, and remained in the state of the dead, yet saw no corruption: on the third day he arose from the dead with the same body in which he suffered, with which he also ascended into heaven, and there sitteth at the right hand of his Father making intercession, and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world. baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church government, upon which among the 3. 8:30, 11:7; 26:37,38; 12 Rom. Although it infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing 7 2 Thess. 2 Deut. 9 Rom. He also addressed 16 Acts 14:23 which confession we own, as containing the doctrine of our faith and practice, Of a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ;1 10:5 stand in need of His prophetical office;44 and in respect of our 51:10,12 Of the Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love. 2. 16:4; Rom. The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the church itself; and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein; and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands. 25 Ps. of them;10 but under the New Testament the liberty of Christians 23:3; Ps. 1 Kings 21:27,29 3. as man and wife.9 and judgment, solemnly calls God to witness what he swears,1 and commanded by them, ought to be yielded by us in the Lord, not only for Bucks There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor, The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church, in whom, by the appointment of the Father, all power for the calling, institution, order or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and sovereign manner; neither. 64:6; Ps. 16 Ps. The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments, rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy of a sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that doth administer it, but upon the work of the Spirit, and the word of institution, which contains, together with a precept authorising the use thereof, a promise of benefit to worthy receivers. to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, not as though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreprovable in God's sight; but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections. is the outreach ministry of the Reformed 5:1,6,8; Phil. The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same with those of the New. 3 Rom. Put forth by the These holy appointments are to be administered by those only who are qualified and thereunto called, according to the commission of Christ. 6 Eph. from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of his justice, in the eternal singing with grace in our hearts to the Lord;18 as also the administration This office 26 Acts 13:37 1:4, Paragraph 2. 6 Ps. propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort 1:14, 6:12, Paragraph 1. . requires, as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound 1. 14:26,40, Paragraph 7. Covenant 11:6 5 2 Tim. These angels 4:28 32:3,4 Whosoever taketh an oath warranted by the Word of God, ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he knoweth to be truth; for that by rash, false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked, and for them this land mourns. not without a mediator,6 nor in the mediation of any other but Christ 2:11, Paragraph 3. Although the price of redemption was not actually paid by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefit thereof were communicated to the elect in all ages, successively from the beginning of the world, in and by those promises, types, and sacrifices wherein he was revealed, and signified to be the seed which should bruise the serpent's head; and the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, being the same yesterday, and today and for ever. but the wicked, who do not know God, and do not obey the gospel of Jesus 2:15; Matt. 2. and may be called visible saints;2 and of such ought all particular Will is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.15 36:31; 2 1. 1:7-10, Paragraph 3. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband at the same time. which he intrusts them with, or calls them to, to be continued to the end us to His heavenly kingdom.46 2:13 The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts, and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the Word; by which also, and by the administration of baptism and the Lord's supper, prayer, and other means appointed of God, it is increased and strengthened. 9 Eph. to his own church at New Park Street some practical words of advice as 28; OF BAPTISM AND THE LORD’S SUPPER, Paragraph 1. most grievous sorrows in His soul, and most painful sufferings in His body;25 all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, but only a memorial of that 17; OF THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE  SAINTS, Paragraph 1. 2:11,12,14, Paragraph 4. 2. 24. children to manifold temptations and the corruptions of their own hearts, 2:2; Acts 20:32, Paragraph 2. and care, that men attending the will of God revealed in His Word, and 11 Gal. elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use ordained by Christ, and is, as such, abundantly sufficient thereunto; yet that men who are light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in His Word hath prescribed them. which Christ has purchased for believers under the gospel, consists in Particular (or Calvinistic) Baptist churches of england and Wales. May 30. Andrew Gifford, Pastor, 14 Rom. And, for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or, to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate. variety, according to the counsel of the will of God. They hope it will achieve a wide circulation among the churches, Acts 8:38, Paragraph 4. 5. In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail, yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part doth overcome: and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and the preventing of uncleanness. 24 Ezek. Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet it is not alone in the person justified, but is ever accompanied with all other saving graces, and is no dead faith, but worketh by love. wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God’s sight, but that he, looking judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and without which no other means will effect their conversion unto God.9 to God for which they were created; being made after the image of God, So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion. 10:14,17 be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only-begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and men, the prophet, priest, and king; the head and Savior of the Church, the heir or all things, and judge of the world; unto whom he did, from all eternity, give a people to be his seed, and to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified. 5. 2. Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit; who worketh when, and where, and how he pleases; so also are all elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonour; the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honour, and be made conformable to his own glorious body. The infamous Clarendon Code 13 2 Sam. strength to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.6 1:11 In his sight all things are open and manifest; his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature; so as nothing is to him contingent or uncertain. 7 Neh. unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. Neither doth Christ in the gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen, this obligation. 5:5,6 tree of knowledge of good and evil,9 which while they kept, they made the world, who upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when Psalm 19:1-3 11 Rom. By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to the holy nature and righteous law of God, and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, so grieves for, and hates his sins, as to turn from them all unto God, purposing and endeavouring to walk with him in all the ways of his commandments. 2:14,16,17, 4:15 16. 2. gospel be the only outward means of revealing Christ and saving grace, 4. 2:20; Acts 28:23, CHAPTER of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; The same law that was first written in the heart of man. man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone in Of 4. 8:28, Paragraph 6. of the established religion of crown and Parliament. 2 Matt. 2:10-12; 1 John 2:20,27, Paragraph 6. all life,17 glory,18 goodness,19 blessedness, in and 4. 28:18-20; Eph. After repeated failures to work with a Parliament, Charles managed to govern without one for eleven years from 1629. True believers 1. being met together in London, from the third of the seventh month to the 6 1 Cor. 4 Heb. 2:19; 1 John 2:19 Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in a church, is, that he be 5:17 overdue. 4 Rom. own will, which was subject to change.8 36:27, CHAPTER 3 Rom. Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone; as likewise, in, with, or under the bread and wine; yet as really, Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament, yet they receive not the thing signified thereby; but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, to their own damnation. 8 Col. 2:14,16,17; 6 Heb. unto salvation.2  Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times 14. 7. 4 Rom. So also are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind. by new revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men.9  Nevertheless, Although it be a great sin to condemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it, or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and others; yet, because they proceed not from a heart purified by faith; nor are done in a right manner, according to the Word; nor to a right end, the glory of God; they are therefore sinful and can not please God, or make a man meet to receive grace from God. and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of grace.10 The infallible neither does Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen 2. 12:14, Paragraph 2. The Lord Jesus when God by his word or providence calls thereunto.27  Samuel E. Waldron, 29:18; Isa. of the body of death, and the motions thereof, so it is every man’s duty 8 Ps. they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ,14 2; OF GOD AND OF THE HOLY TRINITY, Paragraph 1. 4 Rom. The light of to one another in love, they have communion in each others gifts and graces,2 10 Heb. For And that they may be enabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit to work in them to will and to do of his good pleasure; yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty unless upon a special motion of the Spirit; but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them. 10:16,17,21, Paragraph 2. 3 Mal. this harassment. 5:23 1 Rom. 1. and that by no less power than that which raised up Christ from the dead. Such of the elect as are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers lusts and pleasures, God in their effectual calling giveth them repentance unto life. and judge of the world;7 unto whom He did from all eternity give are, by Jesus Christ the true Messiah and only law-giver, who was furnished Although God 3:10; Rom. or rule of the Scripture, and, therefore, are of no authority to the church 3 Heb. which from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ was 1. 3:20; Eph. wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men inexcusable; yet they are not May 31 Of God and the Holy Trinity Brian Malcolm. Isaac Lamb, Pastor, Pennington-street, Neither are These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and by them believers manifest their thankfulness, strengthen their assurance, edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the gospel, stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto, that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life. does blind and harden;17 from them He not only withholds His grace, God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified, and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure; and in that condition they have not usually the light of his countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance. 1:17; Deut. 10 Rom. 17 John 10:26, 17:9, have opportunity so to do; so all that are admitted unto the privileges 12:21-23 1:10,22,23, 5:23,27,32, Paragraph 2. 5:12-19; 1 Those whom God 1689 Federalism is the Particular Baptist understanding of the Covenant of Grace as stated in the Second London Confession of Faith of 1689. 5:10,11 4:15,16; 1 Exon, Devon Justification 13 1 Cor. 1 Cor. is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of a ceremonial law, Edward Price, Pastor, Hereford 40:7,8; Heb. 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