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    Rides the one God , there can be no other . This doctrine of the unity of God is abundantly con . firmed in the scripture ; but there it is revealed , that in the unity of the Godhead , there are three persons > the Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit , who are the same in nature , and all divine perfections ; so that these three are the pne supreme God , die one object

    of our faith and worship ' * III . God , from eternity , unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass , yet so , as that he is not the author of sin , nor is violence offered to the will of the

    Creature ; though he unchangeably knows whatsoever " will come to pass , yet he has not dec peed any thing , because he foresaw it would come to pass , on certain conditions . By his decree some of mankind are predestinated to ever * lasting life . These , God , accords ing tft the good pleasure of his

    will , has chosen in Christ , out of his mere sovereignty 5 without any foresight of faith or good works , as caus r& , or conditions , moving him thereto . Such whom he chose in Christ , he chose that they might , in time , be holy and blameless beiore him ; the rest of

    mankind , he , in his sovereign pleasure , has left to feel the consequences of their transgressions . " IV * God created our first parents in hopour and innocence , and entered into a covenant of works with Adam , and all his

    posterity ; but he broke this covenant by sinning against God . By this apostacy , he % and we in him , fell from original righteousness , lost communion with Qod ^ and so became dead in sin . The guilt pf j £ da ? n ' 6 first shi is iinputed to . his posterity , and a corrupt nature

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    is derived to them , whereby they are averse to all good , and prone to all evil . " V . Gad the father was pleased , before the foundation of the world to enter into a covenant with

    Christ the second Adam , and with all the elect , in him as his spiritual seed ; in which agreement Christ undertook to do the work of a surety , in fulfilling the law , and suffering death , that he might bring his sons and daughters ~ tt glory .. In this covenant , the

    most ample provision is made for tbe chosen people ; so that all the blessings , pertaining to salvation . are bestowed freely , and do not depend on any conditions , to be performed by the creature . In this God the Father shewed the greatness of his wisdom ' , in contriving a way , wherein , securing the rights of fiis justice , by punishingsin . in the person of the surety .

    he might yet shew forth thericbei of his grace , in saving sinners . " ¦ VI . When the fulneks of time was come , God the Sou , the surety for his people , and the Mediator between God and them

    took upon him the human nature , consisting of a thie body and a reasonable soul , riot a superangelick spirit ; which human nature he took into union with his divine person : so that Christ ii

    truly God , and truly iliaii , in one person ; he'being madfe of a woman was made under the law ? and perfectly fulfilled it , by obeying its precepts , arid suffering the ptjjushmerit due to Us ; he endured grievous torteefrts'in his soul , a * well as psiin in his body , and offering himself iip , i in his hum&t nauife , which had &ft infinite value put upon it , aiding from the "tttiiotfbf that nature with hi * diviw

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    2 f # Homerton Articles of Faith *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/28/