The Original Constitution, Order and Faith of the New-England Churches: Comprising the Platform of Church Discipline Adopted in 1648. Propositions Respecting Baptism and Consociation of Churches Answered by the Synod of 1662. A Confession of Faith, Adopted by the New-England Churches 1680Reprinted for A. Lyman, 1808 - 154 pages |
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... salvation . Yea moreover , as this our pro- fession of the same faith with them , will exempt . us , even in their judgments , from suspicion of heresy ; so , we trust , it may exempt us in the like sort from suspicion of schism : that ...
... salvation . Yea moreover , as this our pro- fession of the same faith with them , will exempt . us , even in their judgments , from suspicion of heresy ; so , we trust , it may exempt us in the like sort from suspicion of schism : that ...
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... salvation , to the calling and winning of souls . 2. Private conference , and conviction by the elders , and other able brethren of the church , whom they do the more respectfully hearken unto , when they see no hope of enjoying church ...
... salvation , to the calling and winning of souls . 2. Private conference , and conviction by the elders , and other able brethren of the church , whom they do the more respectfully hearken unto , when they see no hope of enjoying church ...
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... salvation in Jesus Christ , Eph . i . 22 , 23 , and v . 25 , 26 , 30 . 2. This church is either triumphant or mili- tant ; triumphant , the number of them who are glorified in heaven ; militant , the number of them who are conflicting ...
... salvation in Jesus Christ , Eph . i . 22 , 23 , and v . 25 , 26 , 30 . 2. This church is either triumphant or mili- tant ; triumphant , the number of them who are glorified in heaven ; militant , the number of them who are conflicting ...
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... salvation , i . e . the covenant dispensation of salvation , is come to his house . 3. As that covenant was communicated to pros- elite Gentiles under the Old Testament , so its communication to the inchurched Gentiles un- der the New ...
... salvation , i . e . the covenant dispensation of salvation , is come to his house . 3. As that covenant was communicated to pros- elite Gentiles under the Old Testament , so its communication to the inchurched Gentiles un- der the New ...
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... pesonally ( by means of the cove- nant ) in a visible state of salvation . To say they are not members in their own persons , but in their parents , would be as if one should say , they are saved in their parents , and not in 103.
... pesonally ( by means of the cove- nant ) in a visible state of salvation . To say they are not members in their own persons , but in their parents , would be as if one should say , they are saved in their parents , and not in 103.
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Page 9 - God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 35 - Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon Christ crucified, and all benefits of his death ; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in, with, or under the bread and wine ; yet as really, but spiritually, present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.
Page 17 - Christ and therefore cannot be saved much less can men not professing the Christian Religion be saved in any other way whatsoever be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature and the law of that religion they do profess and to assert and maintain that they may is very pernicious and to be detested CHAP.
Page 109 - Abraham to sacrifice his son, (Heb. xi. 17,) according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12: "Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not:" which is true of this church duty, as well as of that of alms.
Page 11 - God, the great Creator of all things, doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will, to the praise of the glory of his wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy.
Page 10 - These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed ; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.
Page 114 - Every church or particular congregation of visible saints in gospelorder, being furnished with a presbytery, at least with a teaching elder, and walking together in truth and peace, hath received from the Lord Jesus full power and authority ecclesiastical within itself, regularly to administer all the ordinances of Christ, and is not under any other ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. For to such a church Christ hath "given the keys of the kingdom of heaven, that what they bind or loose on earth,...
Page 16 - Christ, enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly to understand the things of God, taking away their heart of stone, and giving unto them an heart of flesh, renewing their wills, and by his almighty power determining them to that which is good, and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ : Yet so, as they come most freely, being made willing by his grace.
Page 9 - In the unity of the God-head there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost : the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding ; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father ; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.
Page 22 - THEY whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace ; but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.