Chapter 12
What We Believe
Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)
We believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God, and the sole basis for any statement of faith. We adopt the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 as a faithful and historic expression of that faith — not as a rival to Scripture, but as an assistance in controversy and a confirmation in belief.
All those that are justified, God vouchsafed, in and for the sake of His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have His name put on them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry Abba, Father, are pitied, protected, provided for, and chastened by Him as by a Father, yet never cast off, but sealed to the day of redemption, and inherit the promises as heirs of everlasting salvation.
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