Philadelphia Confession of Faith · Chapter 7

Of God’s Covenant

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1. The distance between God and the Creature is so great that although reasonable Creatures do owe Obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have attained the Reward of Life, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express, by way of Covenant.^a

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aLuke 17:10; Job 35:7–8

Related texts

Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 7.1

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