ARTICLES OF FAITH
of the Primitive Baptist Church
- We believe in one only true and living God, and the Trinity of persons in the God-head;
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and yet not three but one God.
- We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired words of
God, and the only rule of faith and pratice and we prefer the translation made under the authority
of King James.
- We believe that the whole of the human family were created in Adam, their seminal head,
and that all alike fell in him by his transgression of the law, and all partake of his sinful nature,
and are all born into the world sinners by nature.
- We believe in a covenant of redemption by the Holy Trinity and that a definite number of
the fallen sons and daughters of Adam were chosen in Christ before the world began, that they
should be holy and without blame before Him in love.
- We believe that all the chosen in Christ shall be called, regenerated, and sanctified by the
Holy Spirit and that they will be justified in the sight of God by the righteousness of Christ
imputed to them, and will be preserved through grace and never finally fall away.
- We believe that evangelical faith is the gift of God and good works are the fruit of faith, and
justify us in the sight of men and angels, as evidence of our gracious state.
- We believe that alll the Spiritual blessings that are essential for the consummation of the
eternal salvation of the elect were given them in Chrisst before the world began, and in time
bestowed upon them by virtue of His atoning for them.
- We believe that baptism and the Lord's supper and washing of the saints' feet are ordinances
of Jesus Christ and that true believers are the only subjects of baptism and that immersion is the
only apostolic mode.
- We believe no minister has any right to administer the ordinances of the gospel but one who
is regularly baptised and called of God, and has come under the imposition of the hands of the
presbytery.
- We believe that none but regularly baptised believers have a right to commune at the Lord's
table.
- We believe in the resurrection of the just and the unjust: the just shall be fashioned like the
glorious body of Christ; the unjust to everlasting shame and contempt.
- We believe it disorder for any member of the Church to affiliate with any secret, oath-bound
institution, or any institution other than the Church which contains a form of worship.
- We believe that Christ set in the Church everything it needs and that aids, and auxiliaries of
any nature are unsriptural.
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