A47381:28
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.
Of Christ the Mediator.
IX. WE believe that God having, out of his own mere good Pleasure,1 and infinite Love, elected some Persons of the lost Seed of the first Adam unto everlasting Life, from all Eternity, did enter into a Covenant of Grace with the second Person of the Trinity, (who was set up as the common Head of all the ⟨p. 9⟩Elect) to deliver them out of the state of Sin and Misery,2 and to bring them into a state of Salvation and eternal Happiness.
IX. WE believe that God having, out of his own meer good Pleasure,1 and infinite Love, elected some Persons of the lost Seed of the first Adam unto everlasting Life, from all Eternity, did enter into a Covenant of Grace with the second Person of the Trinity, (who was set up as the common Head of all the ⟨p. 9⟩Elect) to deliver them out of the state of Sin and Misery,2 and to bring them into a state of Salvation and eternal Happiness.