Our
declaration is as follows:
1.
We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament
are the word of God, and the only rule of faith and
practice.
(2 Timothy
3:15-17; 2 Peter 1:19; Acts15:11)
2.
We
believe that there is but one only living and true God; that
there are three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghost, who are equal in nature, power and
glory, and that the Son and the Holy Ghost are as truly and
as properly God as the Father, (Deuteronomy 6:4; 1
Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 3:17; John 10:30; 1 John 5:7;
1 John 5:20).
3.
We
believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, being set up from
everlasting as the mediator of the new covenant, and he,
having engaged to be the surety of his people, did, in the
fullness of time, really assume human nature, and not
before, neither in whole nor in part: in which nature he
really suffered and died as their substitute, in their room
and stead, whereby he made all that satisfaction for their
sins, which the law and justice of God could require, as
well as made way for all those blessings which are needful
for them both for time and eternity.
(Proverbs 8:22,23; Hebrews 12:24: 7:22; Hebrews 2:14-17;
Romans 8:1,3,4; John 10:11,15; 12:27; Isaiah 53:10-12; Mark
14:34).
Having
been enabled through Divine grace, to give up ourselves to
the Lord, likewise to one another by the will of God, we
account it a duty incumbent upon us to make a declaration of
our faith and practice, to the honour of Christ, and the
glory of his name; knowing, that as with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness, so with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
(2
Corinthians 8:5; Colossians 3:17; Romans 10:10).
