Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
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The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to Him as their creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of life but by some voluntary condescension on God's part, which He hath been pleased to express by wa…
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Moreover, man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace, 1 wherein He freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved; 2 and promising to giv…
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This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman, 1 and afterwards by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament; 2 and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction tha…
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