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Standard Confession · Chapter 4

Article 4

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1. That God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,a and the knoweledge of the truth, that they might be saved.b For which end Christ hath commanded, that the Gospel (to wit, the glad tydings of remission of sins) should be preached to every creature.c So that no man shall eternally suffer in Hell (that is, the second death) for want of a Christ that dyed for them, but as the Scripture saith, for denying the Lord that bought them,d or because they believe not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.e Unbelief therefore being the cause why the just and righteous God, will condemn the children of men; it follows against all contradiction, that all men at one time or other, are put into such a capacity, as that (through the grace of God) they may be eternally saved.f

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. a2 Peter 3:9
  2. b1 Timothy 2:4
  3. cMark 16:15
  4. d2 Peter 2:1
  5. eJohn 3:18
  6. fJohn 1:7; Acts 17:30; Mark 6:6; Hebrews 3:10, 18–19; 1 John 5:10; John 3:17

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