The 1689 London Baptist Confession Of Faith; Read by Eric Kahure

Chapter 8: Of Christ The Mediator

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The Son of God, the second person in the Holy Trinity, being very and eternal God, the brightness of the Father's glory, of one substance and equal with Him who made the world, who upholdeth and governeth all things He hath made, did, when the fullness of time was come, take upon Him man's nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it,9 yet without sin;10 being conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, the Holy Spirit coming down upon her: and the power of the Most High overshadowing her; and so was made of a woman of the tribe of Judah, of the seed of Abraham and David according to the Scriptures;11 so that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures were inseparably joined together in one person, without conversion, composition, or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ, the only mediator between God and man.12

9 John 1:14; Gal. 4;4
10 Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14,16–17, 4:15
11 Matt. 1:22–23
12 Luke 1:27,31,35; Rom. 9:5; 1 Tim. 2:5

Chapter 8: Of Christ The Mediator

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It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, according to the covenant made between them both, to be the mediator between God and man;1 the prophet,2 priest,3 and king;4 Head and Savior of the church,5 the heir of all things,6 and judge of the world;7 unto whom He did from all eternity give a people to be His seed and to be by Him in time redeemed, called, justified, sanctified, and glorified.8

1 Isa. 42:1; 1 Pet. 1:19–20 2 Acts 3:22
3 Heb. 5:5–6
4 Ps. 2:6; Luke 1:33
5 Eph. 1:22–23
6 Heb. 1:2
7 Acts 17:31
8 Isa. 53:10; John 17:6; Rom. 8:30

Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant

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This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman,5 and afterwards by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament;6 and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect;7 and it is alone by the grace of this covenant that all the posterity of fallen Adam that ever were saved did obtain life and blessed immortality, man being now utterly incapable of acceptance with God upon those terms on which Adam stood in his state of innocency.8

5 Gen. 3:15
6 Heb. 1:1
7 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 1:2
8 Heb. 11;6,13; Rom. 4:1–2; Acts 4:12; John 8:56

Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant

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Moreover, man having brought himself under the curse of the law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a covenant of grace,2 wherein He freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved;3 and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life, His Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.4

2 Gen. 2:17; Gal. 3:10; Rom. 3:20–21
3 Rom. 8:3; Mark 16:15–16; John 3:16
4 Ezek. 36:26–27; John 6:44–45; Ps. 110:3

Chapter 7: Of God's Covenant

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The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to 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.1

1 Luke 17:10; Job 35:7–8

Chapter 6: Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin And Of The Punishment Thereof

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The corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated;13 and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and the first motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.14

13 Rom. 7:18,23; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8
14 Rom. 7:23–25; Gal. 5:17

Chapter 6: Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin And Of The Punishment Thereof

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From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,11 do proceed all actual transgressions.12

11 Rom. 8:7; Col. 1:21
12 James 1:14–15; Matt. 15:19

Chapter 6: Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin And Of The Punishment Thereof

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They being the root, and by God's appointment, standing in the room and stead of all mankind, the guilt of the sin was imputed, and corrupted nature conveyed, to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation,6 being now conceived in sin,7 and by nature children of wrath,8 the servants of sin, the subjects of death,9 and all other miseries, spiritual, temporal, and eternal, unless the Lord Jesus set them free.10

6 Rom. 5:12–19; 1 Cor. 15:21–22,45,49
7 Ps. 51:5; Job 14:4
8 Eph. 2:3
9 Rom. 6:20, 5:12
10 Heb. 2:14–15; 1 Thess. 1:10

Chapter 6: Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin And Of The Punishment Thereof

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Our first parents, by this sin, fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and we in them whereby death came upon all:3 all becoming dead in sin,4 and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.5

3 Rom. 3:23
4 Rom 5:12, etc.
5 Titus 1:15; Gen. 6:5; Jer. 17:9; Rom. 3:10–19

Chapter 6: Of The Fall Of Man, Of Sin And Of The Punishment Thereof

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Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and threatened death upon the breach thereof,1 yet he did not long abide in this honor; Satan using the subtlety of the serpent to seduce Eve, then by her seducing Adam, who, without any compulsion, did willfully transgress the law of their creation, and the command given to them, in eating the forbidden fruit,2 which God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel to permit, having purposed to order it to His own glory.

1 Gen. 2:16–17
2 Gen. 3:12–13; 2 Cor. 11:3