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The Agreement in doctrine among the dissenting ministers in London, subscribed Decemb. 16. 1692
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those whom the Father hath given unto Him (l) Dan. 9.24 26. Col. 1.19 20 Ephes 1.11 14. John 17.2 Heb. 9.12 15. 3. To all those for whom Christ hath purchased Redemption he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same (p) Joh. 6.37 39. John 10.15 16. making Intercession for them (q) 1 John 2.1 2. Rom. 8.84 and Revealing unto them in and by the Word the Mysteries of Salvation (r) John 15.13 15. Eph. 1. â— 8. â— John 17.6 effectually perswading them by his Spirit to believe and obey and governing their Hearts by his Word and Spirit (s) John 14.6 Heb. 12.2 2 Cor. 4.13 Rom. 8.9 14. Rom. 15.18 19. John 17.17 overcoming all their Enemies by his Almighty Power and Wisdom in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable Dispensations (t) Psa 110.1 1 Cor. 15.25 26. Mal. 4.2 3. Col. 2.15 Chap. 8. Sect. 1 5 8. IV. Of Effectual Calling 1. THE Spirit applieth to us the Redemption purchased by Christ by working Faith in us and thereby uniting us to Christ in our Effectual Calling Shorter Catechism 2. All those whom God hath predestinated unto Life and those only he is pleased in his appointed and accepted Time effectually to call (a) Rom. 8 30 Rom. 11.7 Eph. 1.10 11. by his Word and Spirit (b) 2 Thes 2.13 14. 2 Cor. 3.3.6 out of the state of Sin and Death in which they are by Nature to Grace and Salvation by Jesus Christ (c) Rom. 8.2 Ephes 2.1 2 3 4 5. 2 Tim. 1.9 10. enlightning their Minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God (d) Act 26.18 1 Cor. 2.10 12. Eph. 1.17 18. taking away their heart of stone and giving unto them an heart of flesh (e) Ezek. 36.26 renewing their Wills and by his Almighty Power determining them to that which is good (f) Ezek. 11.19 Phil. 2.13 Deut. 30.6 Ezek. 36.27 and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ (g) Ephes 1.19 John 6 44 45. yet so as they come most freely being made willing by this Grace (h) Cant. 1.4 Psal 110.3 John 6.37 Rom. 6.16 17 18. 3. This Effectual Call is of God's free and special Grace alone not from any thing at all foreseen in Man (i) 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 3.4 5. Eph. 2.4 5 8 9. Rom. 9.11 who is altogether passive therein until being quickned and renewed by the Holy Spirit (k) 1 Cor. 2.14 Rom. 8.7 Ephes 2.5 he is thereby enabled to answer this Call and embrace the Grace offered and conveyed in it (l) Joh. 6.37 Ezek. 36.27 John 5.25 Chap. 10. Sect. 1 2. V. Of Justification Faith and Repentance 1. THose whom God Effectually calleth he also freely justifieth (a) Rom. 8.30 Rom. 3.24 not by infusing Righteousness into them but by pardoning their sins and by accounting and accepting their Persons as Righteous not for any thing wrought in them but for Christ's sake alone nor by imputing Faith it self the Act of Believing or any other Evangelical Obedience to them as their Righteousness but by imputing the Obedience and Satisfaction of Christ unto them (b) Rom. 4.5 6 7 8. 2. Cor. 5.19 21. Rom. 3.22 24 25 27 28. Tit. 3.5 7. Ephes 1.7 Jer. 23.6 1 Cor. 1.30 31. Rom. 5.17 18 19. they receiving and resting on Him and his Righteousness by Faith which Faith they have not of themselves it is the Gift of God (c) Act. 10.44 Gal. 2.16 Phil. 3.9 Act. 13.38 39. Eph. 2.7 8. Chap. 11. Sect. 1. 2. By this Faith a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is Revealed in the Word for the Authority of God Himself speaking therein e Joh. 4.42 1 Thes 2.13 1 John 5.10 Acts 24 14. and acteth differently upon that which each particular passage containeth yielding Obedience to the Commands f Rom. 16.26 trembling at the Threatnings g Isa 66.2 embracing the Promises of God for this Life and that which is to come h Heb. 11.13 1 Tim. 4.8 But the principal acts of Saving Faith are accepting receiving and resting upon Christ alone for Justification Sanctification and Eternal Life by virtue of the Covenant of Grace i Joh. 1.12 Acts 16.32 Gal. 2.20 Acts 15.11 Chap. 14. Sect. 2. 3. Faith thus receiving and resting on Christ and his Righteousness is the alone Instrument of Justification k John 1.12 Rom. 3.3 to 28. Rom. 5.1 yet it is not alone in the Person Justified but is ever accompanied with all other Saving Graces and is no dead Faith but worketh by Love * Jam. 2.17 22 26. Gal. 5.6 Chap. 11. Sect. 2. 4. God did from all Eternity decree to Justifie all the Elect l Gal. 3.8 1 Pet. 1.2 19 20. Rom. 8.30 and Christ did in the Fulness of Time die for their Sins and rise again for their Justification m Gal. 4.4 1 Gal. 2.6 Rom. 4.25 nevertheless they are not Justified until the Holy Spirit doth in due Time actually apply Christ unto them n Col. 1.21 22. Gal. 2.16 Acts 13.38 39. Tit. 3.4 5 6 7. Chap. 11. Sect. 4. 5. That we may escape the Wrath and Curse of God due to us by reason of the Transgression of the Law he requireth of us Repentance towards God Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ c Acts 20.21 Matth. 3.7 8. Act. 16.30 31 Joh. 3.16 18. and the diligent use of the Outward Means whereby Christ communicateth to us the Benefits of his Mediation d Prov. 2.1 5. cap. 8.33 35. Isa 55.3 Larger Catechism 6. Repentance unto Life is an Evangelical Grace a Ezek. 12.10 Acts 11.18 the Doctrine whereof is to be Preach'd by every Minister of the Gospel as well as that of Faith in Christ b Luk. 24.47 Mark 1.15 Acts 20.21 Chap. 15. Sect. 1. Altho ' Repentance be not to be rested in as any satisfaction for sin nor any cause of the pardon thereof c Ezek. 36.31 32. Ezek. 16.61 62 63. which is the act of God's Free Grace in Christ d Hos 14.2 4. Ephes 1.7 yet it is of such necessity to all sinners that none can expect pardon without it e Luk. 13.3 5. Act. 17.30 31 Chap 15. Sect. 3 4. As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation f Rom. 6.23 Rom. 5.12 Matth. 12.36 so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent g Isa 55.7 Rom. 8.1 Isa 1.16 18. 7. God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified o Matth. 6.12 1 Joh. 1.7 9. 1 John 2.1 2. and although they can never fall from the state of Justification p Luke 22.32 1 Joh. 10.28 Heb. 10.14 yet they may by their sins fall under God's fatherly displeasure and not have the light of his Countenance restored unto them till they humble themselves confess their sins beg pardon and renew
THE Agreement IN DOCTRINE Among the Dissenting Ministers IN LONDON Subscribed Decemb. 16. 1692. LONDON Printed for Thomas Cockerill at the Three Leggs over against Stocks-Market And John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1693. Heads of Agreement BETWEEN Mr. Chauncy c. AND Mr. Williams c. WHereas some Differences have of late arisen occasioned by a Book written by Mr. Williams Intituled Gospel * Wherein Doctor Crisps Works reprinted are considered Truths stated and vindicated and by certain Books written by Mr. Chauncy in opposition thereto and by an Approbation of divers of us prefixed to Mr. Williams his Book and by a Paper subscribed by Mr. Griffith Mr. Cole Mr. Mather Mr. Trayle and Mr. Ri. Taylor in conjunction with Mr. Chauncy expressing their Dissatisfaction therein 1. It is hereby respectively declared That neither they who subscribed that Approbation prefixed to Mr. Williams his Book did therein more than signifie as their own words express that they judged he had in all that was material fully and rightly stated the Truths and Errors therein mentioned as such without delivering their sense about the Preface Explications or Proofs thereto belonging which Declaration is not to be esteemed as a Disapproval of the said Preface Explications or Proofs Nor they who with Mr. Chauncy subscribed the abovesaid Paper did therein offer any particular Exceptions against the said state of Truths and Errors which â—et is not to be understood as an Approval of that State of Truth and Errors 2. That in order to the more effectual Composing of matters in Controversie we all of us having referr'd our selves to the Holy Scriptures and the Doctrinal Articles of the Church of England the Westminster and Savoy Confessions the Larger and Shorter Catechisms do subscribe these following Propositions as what do most fully provide against the Arminian Antinomian Socinian and Popish Errors and shall always be content that any Sermons or Books of ours be interpreted by the said Articles and Confessions desiring all others if they meet with any expressions from any of us that are to them of Doubtful signification they would judge of them and interpret them by the Holy Scriptures and said Articles and Confessions 1. Of the Fall of Man of Sin and of the Punishment thereof 1. OUR First Parents being seduced by the Subtilty and Temptation of Satan sinn'd in eating the Forbidden Fruit. (a) Gen. 3.13 2 Cor. 11.3 This their Sin God was pleased according to his Wise and Holy Counsel to permit having purposed to order it to his own Glory (b) Rom. 11.32 2. By this Sin they fell from their Original Righteousness and Communion with God (c) Gen. 3.6 7 8. Eccles 7.29 and so became Dead in Sin (d) Gen. 2.17 Ephes 2.1 and wholly defiled in all the Faculties and Parts of the Soul and Body (e) Tit. 1.15 Gen. 6.5 Jer. 17.9 Rom. 3.10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. 3. They being the Root of all Mankind the Guilt of this Sin was imputed (f) Gen. 1.27 28. Gen. 2.16 17. Acts 17.26 Rom. 5.12 15 16 17 18 19. 1 Cor. 15.21 22 45 49. and the same Death in Sin and Corrupted Nature conveyed to all their Posterity descending from them by ordinary Generation (g) Psal 51.5 Gen. 5.3 Job 14.4 Job 15.14 4. Every Sin both Original and Actual being a Transgression of the Righteous Law of God and contrary thereunto (h) 1 Joh. 3 4. doth in its own Nature bring Guilt upon the Sinner (i) Rom. 2.15 Rom. 3.9.19 whereby he is bound over to the Wrath of God (k) Eph. 2.3 and Curse of the Law (l) Gal. 3.10 and so made subject to Death (m) Rom. 6.23 with all Miseries Spiritual (n) Eph. 4.18 Temporal (o) Rom. 8.20 Lam. 3.39 and Eternal (p) Matth. 25.41 2 Thes 1.9 Assemb Confession Chap. 6. Sect. 1 2 3 6. II. Of God's Covenant with Man 1. THE First Covenant made with Man was a Covenant of Works (a) Gal. 3.12 wherein Life was promised to Adam and in him to his Posterity (b) Rom. 10.5 Rom. 5. from 12. to 20. upon condition of Perfect and Personal Obedience (c) Geo. 2.17 Gal. 3.10 2. Man by his Fall having made himself incapable of Life by that Covenant the Lord was pleas'd to make a second (d) Gal. 3.21 Rom. 8.3 Rom. 3.20 21. Gen. 3.15 Isa 42.6 commonly call'd the Covenant of Grace wherein he freely offereth unto Sinners Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ requiring of them Faith in Him that they may be saved (e) Mark 16.15 16. John 3.16 Rom. 10.69 Gal. 3.11 and promising to give unto all those that are Ordained unto Life his Holy Spirit making them willing and able to believe (f) Ezek. 36.26 27 Joh. 6 44 45. Chap. 7. Sect. 2 3. 3. This Covenant of Grace was made with Christ as the Second Adam and in Him with all the Elect as his Seed (g) Gal. 3.16 Rom. 5.15 Isa 53.10 11. Larger Catechism 4. The Grace of God is manifested in the Second Covenant in that he freely provideth and offereth to Sinners a Mediator (h) Gen. 3.15 Isa 42.6 John 6.27 and Life and Salvation by Him (i) 1 John 5.11 12. and requiring Faith as the Condition to Interest them in Him (k) Joh. 3 16. Joh. 1.12 promiseth and giveth his Holy Spirit (l) Prov. 1.23 to all his Elect to work in them that Faith with all other Saving Graces (m) Gal. 5.22 23. and to enable them unto all Holy Obedience (n) Ezek. 36.37 as the Evidence of the Truth of their Faith (o) Jam. 2.18 22. and Thankfulness to God (p) 1 Cor. 5.14 15. and as the way which he hath appointed them to Salvation (q) Eph. 2.10 Larger Catechism III. Of Christ the Mediator 1. IT pleased God in his Eternal Purpose to Chuse and Ordain the Lord Jesus his only begotten Son to be the Mediator between God and Man (a) Isa 42.2 1 Pet. 1.19 20. John 3.16 1 Tim. 2 5. the Prophet (b) Act. 3.22 Priest (c) Heb. 5 5 6. and King (d) Psal 2 6. Luke 1.33 the Head and Saviour of the Church (e) Eph. 5.23 the Heir of all things (f) Heb. 1.2 and Judge of the World (g) Acts 17.31 unto whom he did from all Eternity give a People to be his Seed (h) Joh. 17.6 Psal 22.30 Isa 53.10 and to be by Him in time Redeemed Called Justified Sanctified and Glorified (i) 1 Tim. 2 6. Isa 55.4 5. 1 Cor. 1.30 2. The Lord Jesus by his Perfect Obedience and Sacrifice of Himself which He through the Eternal Spirit once offered up unto God hath fully satisfied the Justice of his Father (k) Rom. 5.19 Heb. 9.14 16. Heb. 10.14 Ephes 5.2 Rom. 3.25 26. and purchased not only Reconciliation but an Everlasting Inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven for all