Confession of FAITH Containing the Substance Of all the Fundamental ARTICLES IN THE Larger Confession, put fort〈…〉 the Elders of the Bapti〈…〉 Churches, Owning Personal Electio〈…〉 Final Perseverance.Acts 24. 14. After the way 〈…〉 Heresy, so worship we the Go〈…〉 thers, believing all things wh〈…〉 in the Law and the Prophets 〈…〉LONDON▪ Printed in the 〈…〉Title page of A short confession of faith, London, 1697

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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 Election.

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.

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Of Election.

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XXXII. WE do believe that God from all Eternity, according unto the most wise and holy Counsel of his own Will, freely and unchangeably decreed ¹and ordained, for the manifestation of his own Glory, some Angels, and some of the lost Sons and Daughters of Adam, unto ²eternal Life; and that their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished: and that others are left or passed by under a Decree of Preterition. And that those of Mankind that are predestinated ³and fore-ordained, are particularly and personally designed unto eternal ⁴Life: and these God, according to his eternal and immutable Purpose, and good pleasure of his Will, did choose in Christ ⁵(the Head of this Election) unto everlasting Glory, of his mere free Grace, without any foreseen Faith ⟨p. 33⟩⁶or Obedience and Perseverance therein, or any thing in the Creature as a Condition or Cause moving him thereunto; and all this only to the Praise of his own glorious Grace.

XXXII. WE do believe that God from all Eternity, according unto the most wise and holy Counsel of his own Will, freely and unchangeably decreed ¹

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704

Place

London

Year

1697

Imprint

London : [s.n., 1697?]

Size

[7], 40 p.

Words

6,607

Catalogue

Wing K86 · ESTC R24038

Text

EEBO-TCP A47606

Passages

121

Sections

Title page

A short confession of faith

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.

Of Civil Magistrates.

Of lawful Oaths.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Of Election.

Of final Perseverance.

Of the Resurrection.

Of Eternal Judgment.

Of Marriages.

Of Civil Magistrates.

Of lawful Oaths.