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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 not to be wise above what is written And that a human Tradition or Custom ought not to be regarded but that it is sinful and abominable We believe also that Baptism is only rightly administred by Immersion or dipping the whole Body in Water into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit according to Christ's Institution and the Practice of the Apostles and not by sprinkling or pouring of Water or dipping some part of the Body in Water after the Tradition of Men. And that it is the indispensible Duty of such who are baptized to give up themselves to some particular orderly Church of Jesus Christ and to walk in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless Baptism being an initiating Ordinance Of a true Church XXII WE believe a true Church of Christ is not National nor Parochial but doth consist of a number of godly Persons who upon the Profession of their Faith and Repentance have been baptized and in a solemn manner have in a Holy Covenant given themselves up to the Lord and to one another to live in Love and to endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace Among whom the Word of God is duly and truly preach'd and Holy Baptism the Lord's Supper and all other Ordinances are duly administred according to the Word of God and the Institution of Christ in the Primitive Church watching over one another and communicating to each other's Necessities as becometh Saints living Holy Lives as becomes their sacred Profession and not to forsake the assembling themselves as the manner of some is or to take leave to hear where they please in other Places when the Church is assembled but to worship God and feed in that Pasture or with that Church with whom they have covenanted and given up themselves as particular Members thereof Of Laying on of Hands XXIII WE believe that laying on of Hands with Prayer upon baptized Believers as such is an Ordinance of Christ and ought to be submitted unto by all such Persons that are admitted to partake of the Lord's Supper and that the end of this Ordinance is not for the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit but for a farther Reception of the Holy Spirit of Promise or for the Addition of the Graces of the Spirit and the Influences thereof to confirm strengthen and comfort them in Christ Jesus it being ratified and established by the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit in the Primitive Times to abide in the Church as meeting together on the first Day of the Week was Act. 2. 1. that being the Day of Worship or Christian Sabbath under the Gospel and as Preaching the Word was Acts 10. 44. and as Baptism was Mat. 3. 16. and Prayer was Acts 4. 31. and singing Psalms c. was Acts 16. 25 26. so this of laying on of Hands was Acts 8. ch 19. For as the whole Gospel was confirmed by Signs and Wonders and divers Miracles and Gifts of the Holy Ghost in general so was every Ordinance in like manner confirmed in particular Of the Lord's Supper XXIV WE believe that the Holy Ordinance of the Lord's Supper which he instituted the Night before he was betrayed ought to be observed to the end of the World and that it consisteth only in breaking of Bread and drinking of Wine in remembrance of Christ's Death it being appointed for our spiritual Nourishment and Growth in Grace and as a farther Engagement in and to all Duties we owe to Jesus Christ and as a Pledg of his eternal Love to us and as a Token of our Communion with him and one with another And that due Preparation and Examination is required of all that ought to partake thereof and that it cannot be neglected by any approved and orderly Member without Sin Of Church-Officers XXV WE do believe that every particular Church of Christ is Independent and that no one Church hath any Priority or Super-intendency above or over another and that every Church ought to be Organical that an Elder or Elders a Deacon or Deacons ought to be elected in every Congregation according to those holy Qualifications laid down in the Word of God and that the said Elders and Deacons so chosen ought solemnly to be ordained with Prayer and laying on of Hands of the Eldership That such Churches as have not Officers so ordained are disorderly there being something still wanting Of Prayer XXVI WE believe Prayer is a holy Ordinance of God and that it ought to be performed by the Help and Assistance of the Holy Spirit and that not only the Prayer Christ taught his Disciples but the whole Word of God is to be our Rule how to pray and pour forth our Souls unto God and that it is the indispensible Duty of all godly Families and others also as well as private Christians daily to pray for all things they need and to give Thanks every Day for all good things they receive and that the Omission of this Duty is a great Scandal to Religion and a great Evil when it is carelesly or negligently performed Of singing of Psalms c. XXVII WE believe that singing the Praises of God is a holy Ordinance of Christ and not a part of Natural Religion or a moral Duty only but that it is brought under Divine Institution it being injoined on the Churches of Christ to sing Psalms Hymns and spiritual Songs and that the whole Church in their Publick Assemblies as well as private Christians ought to sing God's Praises according to the best Light they have received Moreover it was practised in the great Representative Church by our Lord Jesus Christ with his Disciples after he had instituted and celebrated the Sacred Ordinance of his Holy Supper as a commemorative Token of Redeeming Love Of the Christian Sabbath XXVIII WE believe that one Day in seven ought to be solemnly observed in the Worship of God and that by Moses's Law the Jews and proselyted Strangers were to keep the seventh Day but from the Resurrection of Christ the first Day of the Week ought by all Christians to be observed Holy to the Lord that being called the Lord's Day and the first time the Church met together after Christ's Ascension was on the Day of Pentecost which was the first Day of the Week as Tradition hath handed it down and on that Day the Church also met together to break Bread and make Collections for the poor Saints and no mention is made that any one Gospel-Church kept the Jewish Sabbath in all the New Testament And we believe that an Apostolical Precedent is equivalent to an Apostolical Precept in this case Of Ministers and their Maintenance XXIX WE do believe that every Brother that hath received a Gift to preach having first pass'd the Probation of the Church and being regularly called by the same