First London Baptist Confession of Faith · Chapter 3

Article 3

API: GET /api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/3.1

Page A3v of the printing · the scan

1. That God hath decreed in himselfe from everlasting touching all things, effectually to work and dispose them^a according to the counsell of his owne will, to the glory of his Name; in which decree appeareth his wisdome, constancy, truth, and faithfulnesse;^b Wisdome is that whereby he contrives all things;^c Constancy is that whereby the decree of God remaines alwayes immutable;^d Truth is that whereby he declares that alone which he hath decreed, and though his sayings may seeme to sound sometimes another thing, yet the sense of them doth alwayes agree with the decree;^e Faithfulnesse is that whereby he effects that he hath decreed, as he hath decreed. And touching his creature man,^f God had in Christ before the foundation of the world, according to the good pleasure of his will, foreordained some men to eternall life through Jesus Christ, to the praise and glory of his grace,^g leaving the rest in their sinne to their just condemnation, to the praise of his Justice.^h

See a mistake? Report it, with what the printing has.