| Confession of Faith |
| A.) We believe in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and receive them as a gracious revelation of the mind and will of God. (Deu. 4:2; Psa. 19:7; Pro. 30:5,6; 2 Pet. 1:19-21; Rev. 22:18,19: John 5:39): and we believe that therein are revealed all the doctines and truths which we here state (2 Tim. 3:15-17.). B.) We believe that there is but one living and true God. (Ex. 3:!4; Deu. 4:35. 6:4; Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 2:2,3; Psa. 90:2, 115:3, 135:5, 139:7-10; Pro. 15:3; Ecc. 3:14; Isa. 40:28, 45:22. 46:9; Jer.10:10, 23:24;Mal 3:6; Mar. 12:29; John 4:24; 1 Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:16); that there are Three Persons in the Godhead - the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit (Matt. 28:19; John 1:1; 2 Cor. 13:14; 1 John 5:7; Jude 20:21;) and that these Three Persons are equal in nature, power, and glory; and we believe that the Son and the Holy Spirit are as truly and as properly God, as the Father. (John 10:15, 30; Eph. 2:22; Heb. 1:3, 9:14). C.) We believe in the everlasting and unchangeable love of God. (Jer. 31:3); and that before the foundation of the world, the Father did elect a certain number of the human race unto everlasting salvation, whom He did predestinate unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Gal 4:5; Eph. 1:13; 1 Thess 5:9; 2 Thess 2:13; 2 Tim 1:9; 1 John 3:1; 1 Pet. 1:2; 2:9); and we believe that in fulfilling this gracious design. He did make a covenant of grace and peace with the Son and with the Holy Spirit on behalf of those persons thus chosen (2 Sam. 23:5; John 1:17); and that in this covenant, the Son was appointed a Savior, and all spiritual blessings provided for the elect, and also that their persons, with all the grace and glory designed for them, were put into the hands of the Son as their Covenant Head, and made His care and charge. (Ps. 111:8,9; 42:6; 54:10; 55:4; Jer. 31:3; John 6:37, 17:2; Acts 4:12; Rom. 8:29,30; Eph. 1:3, 2:13; Heb 2:13; 6:17, 18; 8:8, 9.) D.) We believe in the fall of our first parents and that by it the whole of the human race became involoved in, and guilty of, original sin; and that as they are born into the world, the whole of their posterity are, in consequence, actual transgressors against God. (Rom 5:12-21; Psa. 58:3) and we believe that by the fall all men were rendered both unable and unwilling spiritually to believe in, seek after, or love God until called and regenerated by the Holy Spririt. (Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Job 14:4; 25:4; Psa. 51:5; Jer. 13:23: 17:9; Matt 15:19; Rom. 3:10-24; 5:12-19; 1 Cor 15:22, 45-50; Epg 2:3; 1 John 5:19). E.) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotton Son of God, being set up from everlasting as the Mediator of the New covenant, and having engaged to be the Surety of His people, did, in the fullness of time, really adn truly assume human nature, and not before, either in whole or in part. (Pro. 8:23). We believe that though He existed from all eternity as the eternal Son of God (John 1:18; Phil. 2:5-8; Heb. 1:5,8; 13:8; 2 John 3; Rev. 1:8), the human soul of the Lord Jesus did not exist before it was created and formed in His body by Him who forms the soul of man with-in him, when that body was conceived, under the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of the virgin Mary. (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23; Luke 1:26-38; John 1:14; Gal. 4:4). We believe that Christ's human nature consists of a true body and reasonable soul, both of which together and at once, the Son of God assumed into union with His Divine Person, when made of a woman and not before (Luke 2:40; Heb. 2:14-17); that this human nature was not sinful, peccable, or mortal (Psa. 16:10; Acts 2:27), though capable of death by a voluntary act (John 10:17,18), but essentially and intrinsically pure and holy (Song. 5:9-16; Heb 7:26); and that in it He really suffered, bled, and died, as the Substitute and Surety of His church and people, in their room and stead, and for no others (John 10:15, 26; 17:9, 13); whereby, together with His holy, spotless life, He fulfilled the Law, and satisfied all the claims of justice as well as secured all these blessings which are needful for His people both for time and eternity, (Heb. 9:22-28). F.) We believe that the eternal redemption which Christ has obtained by the shedding of His blood is speical and particular (Gal. 3:13; Heb. 9:12-15); that is to say, that it was intentionally designed only for the Elect of God, the Sheep of Christ, who therefore alone share in the special and peculiar blessings thereof, (Isa. 35:10; John 10:15, 25- 28; Acts 2:47; 13:48; 20:28; Rom. 5:8-10, 8:33, 34; 9:13; 15:16; Rev 14:4). G.) We believe that the justification of God's elect is only by the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ imputed to them (Isa 45 :24; 64:6; Jer. 23:6; Matt 7:18; Luke 18:13; Acts 13:39; Rom. 4:4,5; 5:19; 10:4; 1 Cor. 11:30; 2 Cor 5:21; Phil. 3:9; Titus 3:5), without consideration of any works of righteousness before or after the calling done by them, and that the full and free pardon of all their sins, past, present, and to come, is only through the blood of Christ, according to the riches of His grace (Rom. 3:20-27; 4:22; 9:11; 2 Tim 1:9; Heb. 1:3; 9:22; 1 Pet. 3:18; 1 John 2:1). H.) We believe that the work of regeneration is not an act of man's free will or natural power, but that it springs from the operation of the mighty, efficacious and invincible grace of God (Jer. 50:20; Psa. 110:3; John 1:13; 6:29, 63, 65; 16:8; Rom. 8:16; 11:4, 6; James 1:18). |
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