First London Baptist Confession of Faith (second edition) · Chapter 23

Article 23

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1. All those that have this precious faith wrought in them by the Spirit, can never finally nor totally fall away, seeing the gifts of God are without repentance; so that he still begets and nourisheth in them faith, repentance, love, joy, hope, and all the graces of the Spirit unto immortalitie; And though many stormes and flouds arise, and beat against them, yet they shall never be able to take them off that foundation and rock, which by faith they are fastned upon; notwithstanding, through unbelief, and the temptations of Satan, the sensible sight of this light and love, be clouded and overwhelmed for a time; yet God is still the same, and they shall be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being ingraven upon the palmes of his hands, and their names having been written in the booke of life from all eternitie.^a

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