A47606:43
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?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Articles of Faith of the Church of Christ meeting at Horsley-Down. › Of Justification.
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 Justification.
XIII. WE do believe Justification is a free Act of God's Grace, through that Redemption 1which is in Christ, (who, as our Head, was acquitted, justified, and discharged, and we in 2him, when he rose from the Dead) and when applied to us, we in our own Persons are actually justified, 3in being made and pronounced righteous, through the Righteousness of Christ imputed to us; and all our Sins, past, present, and to come, for ever pardoned; which is received by Faith alone. And that our Sanctification, nor Faith it self, is any part of our Justification before God; it not being either the Habit, or Act of Believing, ⟨p. 13⟩or any Act of Evangelical Obedience imputed to us, but Christ, and his active and passive Obedience 4only, apprehended by Faith: and that Faith in no sense tends to make Christ's Merits more satisfactory unto God; but that he was as fully reconciled and satisfied for his Elect in Christ by his Death 5before Faith as after; otherwise it would render God only reconcilable, 6(not reconciled) and make Faith part of the Payment or Satisfaction unto God, and so lessen 7