A47381:104
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ
The articles of the faith of the Church of Christ, or, Congregation meeting at Horsley-down Benjamin Keach, pastor, as asserted this 10th of the 6th month, 1697.
London : s.n., 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
POSTSCRIPT.
There is something contained in the 13th Article that may seem to want some Explication, in these words (speaking of a Man actually and personally justified) that his Sins past, present, and to come, are all forgiven: We believing that if any Sins of a justified Person were afterwards charged upon him, it must of necessity make a breach in his unalterable and everlasting Justification, which is but one Act in God;1 hence there is no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus: 2yet I find an able and worthy Writer distinguisheth Pardon of Sin thus, viz.
THere is something contained in the 13th Article that may seem to want some Explication, in these words (speaking of a Man actually and personally justified) that his Sins past, present, and to come, are all forgiven: We believing that if any Sins of a justified Person were afterwards charged upon him, it must of necessity make a breach in his unalterable and everlasting Justification, which is but one Act in God;1 hence there is no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus: 2yet I find an able and worthy Writer distinguisheth Pardon of Sin thus, viz.
- 1Rom. 8.1.
- 2Mr. Tho. Gilbert.