A47606:110
A short confession of faith
A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perseverance.A short confession of faith containing the substance of all the fundamental articles in the larger confession put forth by the elders of the Baptist churches, owning personal election and final perserverance.
London : s.n., 1697?
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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; hence there is no Condemnation to them which 1are in Christ Jesus: yet I find an able and worthy Writer distinguisheth Pardon 2of 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; hence there is no Condemnation to them which 1are in Christ Jesus: yet I find an able and worthy Writer distinguisheth Pardon 2of Sin thus, viz.
- 1Rom. 8. 1.
- 2Mr. Tho. Gilbert.
1. Fundamentally in Christ, as a common Person of all the Elect before Faith, which lieth in Christ making full Satisfaction for all their Sins, meriting Faith for them, &c.