We reject the doctrine of the annihilation of the wicked, and believe that all who die out of Christ shall be turned into hell, the fire of which shall never be quenched, the wicked there suffering for ever the torments of eternal fire. Mt 25:46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Re [...]
32: We believe that it would be unsafe, from the brief records we have of the way in which the apostles, under the immediate direction of the Lord, addressed their hearers in certain special cases and circumstances, to derive absolute and universal rules for ministerial addresses in the present day under widely-different circumstances. And we further believe that an assumption [...]
We believe that (A)there are various degrees of faith, as little faith and great faith; that (B)when a man is quickened by the blessed Spirit, he has faith given to him to know and feel he is a sinner against God, and that without a Saviour he must sink in black despair. And we further believe that (C)such a man [...]
Now all and each of these doctrines and ordinances we can honestly say it is our desire to maintain and defend in one spirit and with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel. And we desire, by the grace of God, that our conversation, both in the world and in the church, may be such as becometh [...]
