Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith

Of God and the Holy Trinity

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LBCF1689 2.1

The Lord our God is but one only living and true God; 1 whose subsistence is in and of Himself, 2 infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but Himself; 3 a most pure spirit, 4 invisible, without body, parts, or passions, who only hath immortal…

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LBCF1689 2.2

God, having all life, 1 glory, 2 goodness, 3 blessedness, in and of Himself, is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them, 4 but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them; H…

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LBCF1689 2.3

In this divine and infinite Being there are three subsistences, the Father, the Word or Son, and Holy Spirit, 1 of one substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet the essence undivided: 2 the Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the So…

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