A short confession of faith

Name: A short confession of faith
Author: Benjamin Keach

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.

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London : s.n., 1697?

[7], 40 p. · 6.6k words · Wing K86 · ESTC R24038

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The Articles of Faith of the Church of Christ meeting at Horsley-Down. › Of Man's Free-will.

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Of Man's Free-will.

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VIII. WE believe Man in his state of Innocency had freedom of Will to do good; ⟨p. 8⟩but by the Fall he hath utterly lost all that Power and Ability, being ¹woefully depraved in all the Faculties of his Soul; there being in the Will and Mind of all naturally much Enmity against God, and a ²total aversion to him, and to every thing that is spiritually good; ³loving Darkness, and rebelling against the Light.

VIII. WE believe Man in his state of Innocency had freedom of Will to do good; ⟨p. 8⟩but by the Fall he hath utterly lost all that Power and Ability, being ¹wofully depraved in all the Faculties of his Soul; there being in the Will and Mind of all naturally much Enmity against God, and a ²total aversion to him, and to every thing that is spiritually good; ³loving Darkness, and rebelling against the Light.

1Ephes. 2. 2, 3.
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