the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.-Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.— Deut. xxxii. 4.

Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.-Lev. xix. i.

III.

They believe that God is revealed in the Scriptures, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and that to each are attributable the same Divine properties and perfections. The doctrine of the Divine existence, as above stated, they cordially believe, without attempting fully to explain.

For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.-John v. 22, 23.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.-John i. 1, 2.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.-Acts v. 3, 4.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.— 2 Cor. xiii. 14.

IV.

They believe that man was created after the Divine image, sinless, and in his kind perfect.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.-Gen. i. 27.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. Gen. i. 31.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.-Eccles. vii. 29.

V.

They believe that the first man disobeyed the Divine command, fell from his state of innocence and purity, and involved all his posterity in the consequences of that fall.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.-Gen. iii. 17-19.

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.— Rom. v. 12.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.-Rom. v. 19. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.-1 Cor. xv. 22.

VI.

They believe that therefore all mankind are born in sin, and that a fatal inclination to moral evil, utterly incurable by human means, is inherent in every descendant of Adam.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.-Psalm xiv. 2, 3.

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience : Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.-Ephesians ii. 1-3.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.-Romans v. 6.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:

who can can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.-Jer. xvii. 9, 10.

'VII.

They believe that God having, before the foundation of the world, designed to redeem fallen man, made disclosures of his mercy, which were the grounds of faith and hope from the earliest ages.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.-1 Peter i. 18-20.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am. -John viii. 56-58.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you : Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.-1 Peter i. 10, 11.

VIII.

They believe that God revealed more fully to Abraham the covenant of his grace; and, having promised that from his descendants should arise the deliverer and redeemer of mankind, set that patriarch and his posterity apart, as a race specially favoured and separated to his service; a peculiar church, formed and carefully preserved, under the Divine sanction and government, until the birth of the promised Messiah.

And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time. And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son. That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and

as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.-Gen. xxii. 15--18.

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.-Exod. xix. 5, 6.

Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.-John iv. 22.

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.--Rom. ix. 4, 5.

IX.

They believe that, in the fulness of the time, the Son of God was manifested in the flesh, being born of the Virgin Mary, but conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit; and that our Lord Jesus Christ was both the Son of man, and the Son of God; partaking fully and truly of human nature, though without sin,-equal with the Father, and "the express image of his person."

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.-Phil. ii. 5-8.

And

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy Scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.-Rom. i. 1--4.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.-Gal. iv. 4, 5.

D

And the angel answered and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.-Luke i. 35.

For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.-Heb. ii. 16, 17.

I and my Father are one.-John x. 30.

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.-John v. 26, 27.

X.

They believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, revealed, either personally in his own ministry, or by the Holy Spirit in the ministry of his apostles, the whole mind of God, for our salvation; and that, by his obedience to the Divine law while he lived, and by his sufferings unto death, he meritoriously "obtained eternal redemption for us;" having thereby vindicated and illustrated Divine justice, " magnified the law," and "brought in everlasting righteousness."

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.-Heb. i. 1, 2.

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.-1 Thess. iv. 8.

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.— John xiv. 26.

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth.-Rev. i. 5.

But we have the mind of Christ-1 Cor. ii. 16.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. Col. ii. 9, 10.