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Orthodox Creed

1679 · 50 chapters, 82 paragraphs

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By
Thomas Monck, Messengers, elders and brethren of the General Baptist congregations in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire
Dates
written 1679; first published 1679
Tradition
baptist
Also called
An Orthodox Creed; An Orthodox Creed; or a Protestant Confession of Faith; The Orthodox Creed of 1679; Orthodox Creed of 1678
Related
Parallel to Apostles’ Creed; Parallel to Athanasian Creed
Follows
An Orthodox Creed, or, A Protestant Confession of Faith. Being an Essay to Unite, and Confirm all true Protestants in the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Religion, against the Errors and Heresies of the Church of Rome, the first edition, “Printed in the Year, 1679”, without the printer’s name (Cambridge University Library) (London); Wing O503 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org
Transcribed
From the scanChecked against general-baptists-an-orthodox-creed-1679.pdf: where archive.org’s scan of the film is hard to read, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-28
License
Public domain
Notes

The General Baptists’ confession of fifty articles, drawn up by Thomas Monck and subscribed on 30 January 1678[/9] by messengers, elders and brethren of congregations in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire, “to unite and confirm all true Protestants” against Rome. Transcribed from EEBO’s film of the Cambridge copy (archive.org), with ProQuest’s scan of the same film (docview 2240943076; ours, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page) where archive.org’s is hard to read. Article 38 prints the Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian creeds, and relates to apostles and athanasian clause by clause. The epistle “To the Judicious and Impartial Reader” is prose/preface, with its marginal notes as footnotes, and the list of the articles’ titles and pages prose/contents; the advertisement and the subscribers after article 50 are prose/advertisement. Every correction is in confessions/orthodox1679/EMENDATIONS.md.

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Prefaces and appendices

Contents

  1. 1

    Of the Essence of God

    1.11.2

  2. 2

    Of the Divine Attributes in God

    2.12.2

  3. 3

    Of the Holy Trinity

    3.13.2

  4. 4

    Of the Divine Nature, or Godhead of Christ

    4.14.2

  5. 5

    Of the Second Person in the Holy Trinity, taking our Flesh

    5.1

  6. 6

    Of the Union of the two Natures in Christ

    6.1

  7. 7

    Of the Communication of Properties

    7.17.2

  8. 8

    Of the Holy Spirit

    8.1

  9. 9

    Of Predestination and Election

    9.1

  10. 10

    Of Preterition, or Reprobation

    10.1

  11. 11

    Of Creation

    11.1

  12. 12

    Of Divine Providence

    12.1

  13. 13

    Of the First Covenant

    13.1

  14. 14

    Of the Fall of Man, of his Sin, and of the Punishment thereof

    14.1

  15. 15

    Of Original (or Birth) Sin

    15.1

  16. 16

    Of the New Covenant of Grace

    16.1

  17. 17

    Of Christ and his Mediatoral Office

    17.1

  18. 18

    Of Christ Dying for all Mankind

    18.1

  19. 19

    Of the Agreement between the Old and New Testaments

    19.1

  20. 20

    Of Free-will in Man

    20.1

  21. 21

    Of Vocation and Effectual Calling

    21.1

  22. 22

    Of Angelical Repentance

    22.1

  23. 23

    Of Justifying, or Saving Faith

    23.1

  24. 24

    Of Justification by Christ

    24.1

  25. 25

    Of Reconciliation and Sonship by Christ

    25.1

  26. 26

    Of Sanctification, and good Works

    26.1

  27. 27

    Of Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper

    27.1

  28. 28

    Of the right Subject and Administration of Holy Baptism

    28.1

  29. 29

    Of the Invisible Catholick Church of Christ

    29.1

  30. 30

    Of the Catholick Church as Visible

    30.1

  31. 31

    Of Officers in the Church of Christ

    31.1

  32. 32

    Of Prayer, with Laying on of Hands

    32.1

  33. 33

    Of the end and right Administration of the Lord’s Supper

    33.133.2

  34. 34

    Of the Discipline and Government of the Church of Christ

    34.1

  35. 35

    Of Communion of Saints, and giving to the Poor

    35.1

  36. 36

    Of Perseverance

    36.1

  37. 37

    Of the Sacred Scripture

    37.137.237.337.4

  38. 38

    Of the Three Creeds

    38.138.238.338.438.538.638.738.838.938.1038.1138.1238.1338.1438.1538.1638.1738.1838.1938.2038.2138.2238.2338.24

  39. 39

    Of General Councils, or Assemblies

    39.1

  40. 40

    Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath-Day

    40.1

  41. 41

    Of publick and private Prayer

    41.1

  42. 42

    Of publick Humiliation, by Fasting and Prayer

    42.1

  43. 43

    Of Family, or Relative Duties therein

    43.1

  44. 44

    Of Children dying in Infancy

    44.1

  45. 45

    Of the Civil Magistrate

    45.1

  46. 46

    Of Liberty of Conscience

    46.1

  47. 47

    Of Marriage

    47.1

  48. 48

    Of the lawfulness of an Oath

    48.1

  49. 49

    Of the state of Man after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead

    49.1

  50. 50

    Of the last Judgment

    50.1