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name: Abstract of Principles of 1858
publication_year: 1858
type: confession
chapters:
  - name: The Scriptures
    number: 1
    text: >-
      The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration
      of God, and are the only sufficient, certain and authoritative rule of
      all saving knowledge, faith and obedience.      
  - name: God
    number: 2
    text: >-
      There is but one God, the Maker, Preserver and Ruler of all things,
      having in and of Himself, all perfections, and being infinite in them
      all; and to Him all creatures owe the highest love, reverence and
      obedience.      
  - name: The Trinity
    number: 3
    text: >-
      God is revealed to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit each with
      distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence
      or being.      
  - name: Providence
    number: 4
    text: >-
      God from eternity, decrees or permits all things that come to pass,
      and perpetually upholds, directs and governs all creatures and all
      events; yet so as not in any wise to be the author or approver of sin
      nor to destroy the free will and responsibility of intelligent
      creatures.      
  - name: Election
    number: 5
    text: >-
      Election is God's eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting
      life-not because of foreseen merit in them, but of His mere mercy in
      Christ-in consequence of which choice they are called, justified and
      glorified.      
  - name: The Fall of Man
    number: 6
    text: >-
      God originally created Man in His own image, and free from sin; but,
      through the temptation of Satan, he transgressed the command of God,
      and fell from his original holiness and righteousness; whereby his
      posterity inherit a nature corrupt and wholly opposed to God and His
      law, are under condemnation, and as soon as they are capable of moral
      action, become actual transgressors.      
  - name: The Mediator
    number: 7
    text: >-
      Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is the divinely appointed
      mediator between God and man. Having taken upon Himself human nature,
      yet without sin, He perfectly fulfilled the law; suffered and died
      upon the cross for the salvation of sinners. He was buried, and rose
      again the third day, and ascended to His Father, at whose right hand
      He ever liveth to make intercession for His people. He is the only
      Mediator, the Prophet, Priest and King of the Church, and Sovereign of
      the Universe.      
  - name: Regeneration
    number: 8
    text: >-
      Regeneration is a change of heart, wrought by the Holy Spirit, who
      quickeneth the dead in trespasses and sins enlightening their minds
      spiritually and savingly to understand the Word of God, and renewing
      their whole nature, so that they love and practice holiness. It is a
      work of God's free and special grace alone.      
  - name: Repentance
    number: 9
    text: >-
      Repentance is an evangelical grace, wherein a person being by the Holy
      Spirit, made sensible of the manifold evil of his sin, humbleth
      himself for it, with godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self-
      abhorrence, with a purpose and endeavor to walk before God so as to
      please Him in all things.      
  - name: Faith
    number: 10
    text: >-
      Saving faith is the belief, on God's authority, of whatsoever is
      revealed in His Word concerning Christ; accepting and resting upon Him
      alone for justification and eternal life. It is wrought in the heart
      by the Holy Spirit, and is accompanied by all other saving graces, and
      leads to a life of holiness.      
  - name: Justification
    number: 11
    text: >-
      Justification is God's gracious and full acquittal of sinners, who
      believe in Christ, from all sin, through the satisfaction that Christ
      has made; not for anything wrought in them or done by them; but on
      account of the obedience and satisfaction of Christ, they receiving
      and resting on Him and His righteousness by faith.      
  - name: Sanctification
    number: 12
    text: >-
      Those who have been regenerated are also sanctified by God's word and
      Spirit dwelling in them. This sanctification is progressive through
      the supply of Divine strength, which all saints seek to obtain,
      pressing after a heavenly life in cordial obedience to all Christ's
      commands.      
  - name: Perseverance of the Saints
    number: 13
    text: >-
      Those whom God hath accepted in the Beloved, and sanctified by His
      Spirit, will never totally nor finally fall away from the state of
      grace, but shall certainly persevere to the end; and though they may
      fall through neglect and temptation, into sin, whereby they grieve the
      Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, bring reproach on the
      Church, and temporal judgments on themselves, yet they shall be
      renewed again unto repentance, and be kept by the power of God through
      faith unto salvation.      
  - name: The Church
    number: 14
    text: >-
      The Lord Jesus is the head of the Church, which is composed of all His
      true disciples, and in Him is invested supremely all power for its
      government. According to His commandment, Christians are to associate
      themselves into particular societies or churches; and to each of these
      churches He hath given needful authority for administering that order,
      discipline and worship which He hath appointed. The regular officers
      of a Church are Bishops or Elders, and Deacons.      
  - name: Baptism
    number: 15
    text: >-
      Baptism is an ordinance of the Lord Jesus, obligatory upon every
      believer, wherein he is immersed in water in the name of the Father,
      and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, as a sign of his fellowship
      with the death and resurrection of Christ, of remission of sins, and
      of giving himself up to God, to live and walk in newness of life. It
      is prerequisite to church fellowship, and to participation in the
      Lord's Supper.      
  - name: The Lord's Supper
    number: 16
    text: >-
      The Lord's Supper is an ordinance of Jesus Christ, to be administered
      with the elements of bread and wine, and to be observed by His
      churches till the end of the world. It is in no sense a sacrifice, but
      is designed to commemorate His death, to confirm the faith and other
      graces of Christians, and to be a bond, pledge and renewal of their
      communion with Him, and of their church fellowship.      
  - name: The Lord's Day
    number: 17
    text: >-
      The Lord's Day is a Christian institution for regular observance, and
      should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion,
      both public and private, resting from worldly employments and
      amusements, works of necessity and mercy only excepted.      
  - name: Liberty of Conscience
    number: 18
    text: >-
      God alone is Lord of the conscience; and He hath left it free from the
      doctrines and commandments of men, which are in anything contrary to
      His word, or not contained in it. Civil magistrates being ordained of
      God, subjection in all lawful things commanded by them ought to be
      yielded by us in the Lord, not only for wrath, but also for conscience
      sake.      
  - name: The Resurrection
    number: 19
    text: >-
      The bodies of men after death return to dust, but their spirits return
      immediately to God-the righteous to rest with Him; the wicked, to be
      reserved under darkness to the judgment. At the last day, the bodies
      of all the dead, both just and unjust, will be raised.      
  - name: The Judgment
    number: 20
    text: >-
      God hath appointed a day, wherein He will judge the world by Jesus
      Christ, when every one shall receive according to his deeds; the
      wicked shall go into everlasting punishment; the righteous, into
      everlasting life.      
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