We believe that (A) man can never do a good work, properly so called, until the grace of God is implanted in his heart, and that (B) nothing is spiritually good but what God Himself is pleased to communicate to, and work in, the soul, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. And we also believe that [...]
We believe in (A) the effectual calling of all the elect vessels of mercy out of the ruins of the Fall in God's appointed time, and that the work of regeneration, or new birth, is the sovereign work of God, and His work only, the sinner being as passive therein as in his first birth, and previously thereto dead in [...]
We believe that (A) faith is the gift of God, as well as (B) true spiritual repentance and hope, and a manifestation of pardon to the soul; that through faith (C) Christ is made precious to the soul, and (D) the soul drawn out in love to God; that (E) all are the fruits and effects of the blessed Spirit, [...]
We believe (A) in the Resurrection of the body, both of the just and the unjust; that (B) the just (the elect) shall be raised up in glory and honour, and be openly acknowledged and fully acquitted in the Judgement Day, before angels, devils and sinners, and made fully and eternally blest both in body and soul; and that the [...]
We believe (A) that Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of Christ, to be continued till His Second Coming; and that the former is requisite to the latter; that is to say, that those only can scripturally sit down to the Lord's Supper who, upon their profession of faith, have been baptised by immersion in the Name of the [...]
We believe (A)that the Believer's Rule of conduct is the gospel, and not the law, commonly called the Moral Law, issued on Mount Sinai, which hath no glory in it by reason of the glory that excelleth; that is to say, the gospel; the gospel containing the sum and substance and glory of all the laws which God ever promulgated [...]
We deny and reject, as unscriptural and erroneous, the baptism of infants, whether by immersion, sprinkling, pouring, or any other mode. Ac 8:12, But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Ac 8:37, And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine [...]
We reject as blasphemous the doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration; that is, that the person baptised is or can be regenerated in, by or through baptism, much less, if possible, by infant sprinkling. Joh 1:13, Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1Pe 1:22, Seeing ye [...]
We believe in (A)the sanctification of God's people, the term sanctification signifying a separation and setting apart by and for God. This, in the child of God, is three-fold: 1, by election by God the Father; 2, by redemption by God the Son; 3, by the almighty regenerating operation of God the Holy Ghost. We believe that (B)the blessed Spirit [...]
We believe (A)that the grace of God produces a real change in a man and teaches him to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live godly, and that (B)there is a growth in grace, which consists (C)principally in a growing experimental knowledge of a man's sinful self, the vanity of the creature, the glory of God, the spirituality of [...]
