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A47606 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. Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704. 1697 (1697) Wing K86; ESTC R24038 16,842 52

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ought to exercise the said Gift to the Edification of the Church when desired and that no Brother ought to take upon him to preach until he has a lawful Call so to do Moreover we believe that it is the indispensible Duty of every Church according to their Ability to provide their Pastor or Elders a comfortable Maintenance as God hath ordained that he that preaches the Gospel should live of the Gospel and not of his own Labour but that he should wholly give himself up to the Work of the Ministry and to watch over the Flock being to be freed from all secular Business and Encumbrances of the World and yet that it is abominable Evil for any Man to preach the Gospel for filthy lucre sake but he must do it of a ready mind Of the First Covenant XXX WE believe that the first Covenant or Covenant of Works was primarily made with Adam and with all Mankind in him by virtue of which he stood in a justified state before the Fall upon the condition of his own perfect and personal Obedience But by the Fall he made himself uncapable of Life by that Covenant That the Law God gave by Moses to Israel was of the same nature of that given to Adam being a second Ministration of it but not given for Life but to make Sin exceeding sinful and to shew how unable Man was in his fallen state to fulfil the Righteousness of God and so with the Ceremonial Law it was given in subserviency to the Gospel as a Schoolmaster to bring Sinners to Christ Of the New and Second Covenant XXXI WE believe the Covenant of Grace was primarily made with the second Adam and in him with all the Elect who as God-man or Mediator was set up from everlasting as a Common Person or as their Head and Representative who freely obliged or ingaged himself to the Father for them perfectly to keep the whole Law in their Nature that had sinned and to satisfy Divine Justice by bearing their Sins upon his own Body i. e. the Guilt of all their Sins which were laid upon him and that he sustain'd that Wrath and Curse in his Body and Soul that was due to them for all their Transgrestions and having received their discharge from Wrath and Condemnation he gives it out to all that believe in him and obtain Union with him who are thereby brought actually into the said New Covenant and have a personal Right to all the Blessings thereof Of Election 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 and ordained for the manifestation of his own Glory some Angels and some of the lost Sons and Daughters of Adam unto eternal 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 Manking that are predestinated and fore-ordained are particularly and personally design'd unto eternal Life and these God according to his eternal and immutable Purpose and good pleasure of his Will did chuse in Christ the Head of this Election unto everlasting Glory of his meer free Grace without any foreseen Faith or 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 Of final Perseverance XXXIII WE believe all those whom God hath chosen and who are effectually called justified and sanctified in Jesus Christ can neither totally nor finally fall away from a state of Grace but shall certainly persevere therein unto the end and eternally be saved and this by virtue of their Election or the immutable Decree of God and the unchangeable Love of God the Father and by virtue of their Union with Christ together with his Death Resurrection and Intercession as also from the nature of the Covenant of Grace and Suretyship of Christ and through the indwelling of the holy Spirit who abideth in them for ever Of the Resurrection XXXIV WE believe that the Bodies of all Men both the Just and Unjust shall rise again at the last day even the same numerical Bodies that die tho the Bodies of the Saints shall be raised immortal and incorruptible and be made like Christ's glorious Body and that the dead in Christ shall rise first Of Eternal Judgment XXXV WE believe that God hath appointed a Day in which he will judg the World in Righteousness by Jesus Christ or that there shall be a general Day of Judgment when all shall stand before the Judgment-seat of Christ and give an account to him for all things done in this Body and that he will pass an eternal Sentence upon all according as their Works shall be Of Marriages XXXVI WE believe Marriage is God's holy Ordinance that is to say between one Man and one Woman and that no Man ought to have more than one Wife at once and that Believers that marry should marry in the Lord or such that are Believers or Godly Persons and that those who do otherwise sin greatly in violating God's holy Precept and that Ministers as well as others may marry for Marriage is honourable in all Of Civil Magistrates XXXVII WE do believe the supream Lord of Heaven and Earth hath ordained Magistrates for the good of Mankind and that it is our Duty in all civil and lawful things to obey them for Conscience sake nay and to pray for all that are in Authority that under them we may live a godly and peaceable Life and that we ought to render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar's and to God the things that are God's Of lawful Oaths XXXVIII WE do believe it is lawful to take some Oaths before the Civil Magistrate an Oath of Confirmation being to put an end to all Strife nay and that it is our Duty so to do when lawfully called thereunto and that those that swear ought to swear in Truth in Righteousness and in Judgment Of Personal Propriety XXXIX WE do believe that every Man hath a just and peculiar Right and Propriety in his own Goods and that they are not common to others yet we believe that every Man is obliged to administer to the poor Saints and to the publick Interest of God according to his Ability or as God hath blessed him FINIS POSTSCRIPT THere is something contained in the 13th Article that may seem to want some Explication in these words speaking of a Man actually and personally justified that his Sins past present and to come are all forgiven We believing that if any Sins of a justified Person were afterwards charged upon him it must of necessity make a breach in