REVEALED IN THE SACRED WRITINGS AND RECEIVED BY PROTESTANT CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL. 1. That the Holy Scriptures of the Bible were given by the inspiration of God, and contain all things necessary to be known in order to salvation. 2. That it is the right and duty of every man, seeking the aid of the Holy Spirit, humbly to exercise his own judgment in endeavouring to ascertain the mind and will of God as revealed in them; neither ought any man to be required to receive, as an article of the christian faith, anything that may not be proved by them. 3. That there is but one God - unoriginated, omnipresent, and eternal-the creator and preserver of all things. 4. That there is a Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 5. That man was created upright-that, since the fall of Adam, man has become utterly depraved, so that he cannot, of himself, do anything that is good. 6. That God, of his infinite love, sent His only begotten Son, the eternal WORD, to be the Saviour of the world, to take the nature of man, to fulfil all righteousness, and to make an atonement for the sins of mankind by his death on the cross. 7. That He arose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, where He appears as the mediator between man and God, neither is there salvation in any other. 8. That sinners are justified by faith alone, and not by works or sufferings; that the grace of faith is the gift of God, to be sought in the use of the appointed means. 9. That the conversion and sanctification of a sinner are the work of the Holy Ghost. 10. That the soul of man is immortal; that there shall be a resurrection of the just and of the unjust, who shall be judged by our Lord Jesus Christ, according to their works. 11. That the righteous shall be eternally blessed, and the wicked eternally punished. 12. That the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper are of perpetual obligation, and the Christian Ministry is of divine appointment. |