§. 30. II. All true Christians believe in One Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, God, and one in Essence with the Father, Incarnate, assuming the whole Nature of man, conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, and was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, fulfilling all righteousness, and overcame the Devil and the world, and gave himself a Sacrifice for mans sin, by suffering a cursed death on the Cross, to ransom us and reconcile us unto God; and was buried and went to the departed souls in hades, and the third day rose again from the dead, having conquered death: And having declared the new Covenant or Law of Grace, and commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to all the world, and promised them to send the Holy Spirit, he ascended into Heaven before their faces: The said Covenant of Grace is summarily this [that whereas all have sinned and come short of the Glory of ⟨p. 93⟩God; sin by one man entering into the world and death by sin, and so death and condemnation passed upon all, in that all have sinned; God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever Believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life; that is, God freely giveth to lost undone sinners Himself to be their reconciled God and Father, Jesus Christ to be their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost to be their Sanctifier, if they will Believe and Trust him and accept the gift, and will in serious Covenant (which Baptism celebrateth accordingly) give up themselves to him, Repenting of their sins, and consenting to forsake the Devil, the world and the Flesh as opposite to God, and sincerely (though not perfectly) obey Christ and his Spirit to the end, according to the Law of Nature and his Gospel institutions, that so they may overcome and be Glorified for ever.]
§. 30. II. All true Christians believe in One Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ, the Eternal Word, God, and one in Essence with the Father, Incarnate, assuming the whole Nature of man, conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, and was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, fulfilling all righteousness, and overcame the Devil and the world, and gave himself a Sacrifice for mans sin, by suffering a cursed death on the Cross, to ransome us and reconcile us unto God; and was buried and went to the departed souls in hades, and the third day rose again from the dead, having conquered death: And having declared the new Covenant or Law of Grace, and commanded his Apostles to preach the Gospel to all the world, and promised them to send the Holy Spirit, he ascended into Heaven before their faces: The said Covenant of Grace is summarily this [that whereas all have sinned and come short of the Glory of ⟨p. 93⟩God; sin by one man entring into the world and death by sin, and so death and condemnation passed upon all, in that all have sinned; God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever Believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life; that is, God freely giveth to lost undone sinners Himself to be their reconciled God and Father, Jesus Christ to be their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost to be their Sanctifier, if they will Believe and Trust him and accept the gift, and will in serious Covenant (which Baptism celebrateth accordingly) give up themselves to him, Repenting of their sins, and consenting to forsake the Devil, the world and the Flesh as opposite to God, and sincerely (though not perfectly) obey Christ and his Spirit to the end, according to the Law of Nature and his Gospel institutions, that so they may overcome and be Glorified for ever.]
