A47381:117
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.
2. That if his chastening Hand is upon us, he would be pleased graciously to remove it.
2. That if his chastning Hand is upon us, he would be pleased graciously to remove it.
3. That he would be pleased to clear up to our Consciences, or give us the evidence of our Pardon through Christ's Merits, and that we may know we are complete in Christ, or without spot before the Throne in our free Justification.
3. That he would be pleased to clear up to our Consciences, or give us the evidence of our Pardon through Christ's Merits, and that we may know we are compleat in Christ, or without spot before the Throne in our free Justification.
4. Nay, Believers are to pray to God to remove that Sin from them (saith this worthy Author) whose desert of Punishment cannot be removed from it; and to spread their Sins before the Lord in the highest sense of the ⟨p. 40⟩deepest demerit of all legal Punishment, so that they may put the higher accent upon the free Grace of God, and estimate upon the full Satisfaction of Christ, whereby their Persons are so fully freed from all actual Obligation to any Legal Punishment, the whole and utmost whereof their Sins deserve.