Difficulties Associated With Articles Of Religion Among Particular Baptists

42 2 LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION 1689 in Him, that they may be saved125; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life, His Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe126.

3. This covenant is revealed in the gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of salvation by the seed of the woman127, and afterwards by farther steps, until the full discovery thereof was completed in the New Testament128;6 and it is founded in that eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect129; 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 innocency130.

8. Of Christ The Mediator 1. 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 man131; the prophet132, priest133, and king134; head and savior of the church135, the heir of all things136, and judge of the world137; 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 glorified138.

2. 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 upholds and governs all things He has made, did, when the fullness of time was complete, take upon Him man’s nature, with all the essential properties and common infirmities of it139, yet without sin140; 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, 125 Rom. 8:3; Mark 16:15,16; John 3:16; 126 Ezek. 36:26,27; John 6:44,45; Ps. 110:3 127 Gen. 3:15 128 Heb. 1:1 129 2 Tim. 1:9; Titus 1:2 130 Heb. 11;6,13; Rom. 4:1,2, &c.; Acts 4:12; John 8:56 131 Isa. 42:1; 1 Pet. 1:19,20 132 Acts 3:22 133 Heb. 5:5,6 134 Ps. 2:6; Luke 1:33 135 Eph. 1:22,23 136 Heb. 1:2 137 Acts 17:31 138 Isa. 53:10; John 17:6; Rom. 8:30 139 John 1:14; Gal. 4;4 140 Rom. 8:3; Heb. 2:14,16,17, 4:15