Statement of Faith
Scripture
God
Deut. 4:15, 6:4; 1 Thess. 1:9; Job 11:7; John 4:24; 1 Tim. 1:17; Acts 14:11; James 1:17; 1 Kings 8:27; Ps. 5:5, 90:2, 115:3, 145:3; Gen. 17:1; Rom. 16:27; Isa. 6:3; Rev. 4:8; Exod. 3:14, 34:6–7; Eph. 1:11; Prov. 16:4; 1 John 4:8; Heb. 11:6; Neh. 9:32; Nah. 1:2–3; Josh. 5:26
God has all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of Himself; and is alone in and unto Himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creatures which He has made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them. He is the alone fountain of all being, of whom, through whom, and to whom are all things; and has most sovereign dominion over them, to do by them, for them, or upon them whatsoever Himself pleases. In His sight all things are open and manifest, His knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent upon the creature, so as nothing is to Him contingent, or uncertain. He is most holy in all His counsels, in all His works, and in all His commands. To Him is due from angels and men, and every other creature, whatsoever worship, service, or obedience He is pleased to require of them.
Josh. 5:26; Acts 7:2; Ps. 119:68, 145:17; 1 Tim. 6:15; Acts 17:24; Job 22:2; Rom. 11:33, 36; Rev. 4:11, 5:12; Heb. 4:13; Acts 15:18
In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost: the Father is of none, neither begotten, nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.
1 John 5:7; John 1:5, 14, 15:26, 19:11; Eph. 1:11; James 1:13, 17; Acts 2:23, 4:27; Matt. 17:12; Gal. 4:6
The Fall of Man
Gen. 1:27, 31, 2:16–17, 3:6–24, 6:12; Eccles. 7:29; Acts 17:26–29; Rom. 1:18–20, 32, 2:1–16, 3:9–19, 5:12, 8:7, 15–19; Ps. 51:5; Isa. 53:6; Eph. 2:1–3; Gal. 3:10, 22; Matt. 20:15; Ezek. 18:19–20
The Way of Salvation
Eph. 2:3; Matt. 18:11, 20:28; 1 John 2:3, 4:10; 1 Cor. 3:5–7, 15:1–3; 2 Cor. 5:21; Acts 15:11; John 1:1–14, 3:16 Heb. 4:14; Phil. 2:8–9, 14; Isa. 42:21, 53:4–5; Gal. 4:4–5; Rom. 3:21–26, 4:25; Heb. 1:3, 8, 7:25–26, 9:13–15; Col. 2:18, 3:1–4; Ps. 34, 89:19
Justification
John 1:16; Eph. 3:8; Acts 10:43, 13:39; Isa. 53:11–12; Zech. 13:1; Matt. 6:33, 9:6; Titus 3:5–7; 1 Pet. 3:7; Phil. 3:7–9; 1 Cor. 1:30–31; 1 Tim. 4:8; 1 John 2:12, 25; Rom. 3:24–26, 4:4–5, 23–25, 5:1–3, 9–11, 17–21, 6:23
Free Will
Matt. 17:12; James 1:14; Deut. 30:19
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, mutably, so that he might fall from it.
Eccles. 7:29; Gen. 1:26, 2:16–17, 3:6
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, has wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation: so as, a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto.
Rom. 5:6; 8:7; John 15:5; Rom. 3:10–12; Eph. 2:1–5; Col. 2:13; John 6:44; 1 Cor. 2:14; Titus 3:3–5
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He frees him from his natural bondage under sin; and, by His grace alone, enables him freely to will and to do that which is spiritually good; yet so, as that by reason of his remaining corruption, he does not perfectly, or only, will that which is good, but does also will that which is evil.
Col. 1:13; John 8:34–26; Phil. 2:13; Rom. 6:18–22; Gal. 5:17; Rom. 7:15–21
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone in the state of glory only.
Eph. 4:13; Heb. 12:23; 1 John 3:2 Jude 24
Repentance and Faith
Mark 1:15; Acts 2:37–38, 3:22–23, 11:18, 16:30–31; Eph. 2:8; 1 John 5:1; John 16:8; Luke 15:18–21, 18:13; James 4:7–10; 2 Cor. 7:11; Ps. 2:6; Rom. 10:9–11; Heb. 1:8, 4:14, 7:25; 2 Tim. 1:12
God’s Purpose of Grace
2 Tim. 1:8–9, 2:10; Eph. 1:3–14; 1 Pet. 1:1–2, 2:9, 5:10; Rom. 3:27, 4:16, 8:28–30, 9:23–24, 11:5–6, 28–29, 32–36; John 10:16, 6:37–40, 10:16, 15:16; 1 John 4:19; 2 Thess.. 1:4–10, 2:12–14; Acts 1:24, 13:48, 15:14; Matt. 20:15–16; Exod. 33:18–19; Jer. 31:3; James 1:17–18; 1 Cor. 1:26–31, 3:5–7, 9:22, 15:10; Col. 3:12; Luke 18:7; Isa. 42:16; 2 Pet. 1:10–11; Phil. 3:12; Heb. 6:11
Sanctification
1 Thess. 4:3, 5:23; 2 Cor. 3:18, 7:1, 13:5, 10; Phil. 1:9–11, 3:12–16; 1 John 2:29; Rom. 8:5; Eph. 1:4, 13–14, 4:11–12, 30, 6:18; Prov. 4:18; Heb. 6:1; 2 Pet. 1:5–8, 3:18; John 3:6; 1 Pet. 2:2; Luke 9:23, 11:35; Matt. 26:41
Perseverance of the Saints
John 6:66–69, 8:31, 13:18; 1 John 2:19, 27–28, 3:9, 4:4, 5:18; Matt. 6:30–33, 13:20– 21; Job 17:9; Rom. 8:28; Jer. 32:40; Ps. 91:11–12, 121:3; Phil. 1:6, 2:13; Jude 24–25; Heb. 1:14, 13:5; 2 Kings 6:16; 1 John 4:4
A Gospel Church
1 Cor. 1:1–3, 4:17, 5:6, 12–13, 11:2, 23–24, 14:12–13; Matt. 18:15–20, 28:20; Acts 2:41–42, 47, 5:11, 8:1, 11:21–23, 14:23, 15:22; 3 John 9; 1 Tim. 3:5; 2 Cor. 2:17, 8:5; 2 Thess. 3:6; Rom. 16:17–20; John 14:15, 15:12; 1 John 14:21; 1 Thess. 4:2; 2 John 6; Gal. 6:2; Eph. 4:7; Phil. 1:1
The World to Come
1 Pet. 4:7; Heb. 1:10–12, 6:1–2, 9:28; Matt. 13:37–43, 49, 24:30–31, 35, 25:31–46, 28:20; 1 John 2:17, 28, 4:17; 2 Pet. 2:9, 3:3–13; Acts 1:11, 3:21, 10:42, 17:31, 24:15; Rev. 1:7, 20:11–12, 22:11; 1 Thess. 4:13–18, 5:1–11; 1 Cor. 4:5, 6:9–10, 7:29–31, 15:12–58; Luke 14:14; Dan. 12:2; John 4:36, 5:28–29, 6:40, 11:25–26; 2 Tim. 1:10; Mark 9:43–48; Jude 7; Phil. 3:19; Rom. 2:2–16, 3:5–6, 6:23; 2 Cor. 4:18, 5:10–11; 2 Thess. 1:6–12