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

Title page typeset from the transcription.

The Articles of Faith of the Church of Christ meeting at Horsley-Down. › Of the First Covenant.

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.

[ Earlier:84–98 of 121

:84p. 30

Of the First Covenant.

:85p. 30¶30

XXX. WE believe that the first Covenant, or Covenant ¹of Works, was primarily made with Adam, and with all Mankind in him, by virtue of ²which he stood in a justified state before the Fall, upon the condition of his own perfect and personal ³Obedience. But by the Fall he made himself uncapable of Life by that Covenant.

:86p. 30

That the Law God gave by Moses to Israel, was of the same nature of that given to Adam, being a second ¹

[ Earlier passages Later passages ]

A short confession of faith

Of the First Covenant.

Of the New and Second Covenant.

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of the First Covenant.

Of the New and Second Covenant.

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.