A47606:56
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 Faith and Repentance.
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 Faith and Repentance.
XIX. WE believe that Faith is a saving Grace, or 1the most precious Gift of God; and that it is an Instrument whereby we receive, take hold of, and wholly rest upon Jesus Christ, as offered to us in the Gospel. That Repentance unto Life is also a saving 2Grace, whereby a Sinner, out of a true Sense of Sin, and Apprehension of God's Mercy in Christ, doth with Grief and Hatred of his Sins, turn from them. And that tho Repentance is in order of Nature called the first Principle of the Doctrine of Christ, yet we believe no Man can savingly repent, unless he believes in Jesus 3Christ, and apprehends the Free Pardon and Forgiveness of all his Sins through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, and the Sight and Sense of God's Love in ⟨p. 19⟩a bleeding Saviour; being that only thing that melts and breaks the 4stony Heart of a poor Sinner, as the Sight of a free Pardon from a Prince humbles the stout Heart of a rebellious Malefactor.