A Faith to Confess: The Baptist Confession
of Faith of 1689
Rewritten in Modern English
©1975, Carey Publications, Ltd.,
75 Woodhill Road, Leeds, U.K., LS16 7BZ
ALL saints are united to Jesus Christ their head by His Spirit
and by faith. But this does not mean that they become one
person with Him. Yet they have fellowship in His graces,
sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory. Also, as they are
united to one another in love, they enjoy fellowship in the gifts
and graces one of another, and are under obligation to render
such services, public and private, as promote their mutual
well-being, in both spiritual and temporal matters.
John 1:16; Rom. 1:12; 6:5,6; 1 Cor. 3:21-23; 12:7; Gal. 6:10; Eph. 4:15,
16; Phil. 3:10; 1 Thess. 5:11,14; 1 John 1:3; 3:17,18.
By their profession of faith, saints are committed to the
maintenance of a holy fellowship and communion in the worship
of God and in the performance of such other special services as
promote their mutual well-being. They are also bound to
relieve one another in their temporal concerns according to their
various needs and abilities. According to the rule of the gospel,
this type of fellowship, while it particularly applies to the family
and church relationships of saints, is to be extended, as God gives
opportunity, to the whole household of faith, that is to say, to all
who in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. At the
same time, however, it must be understood that such a sharing
one with another as saints, does not deprive any man of the title
and proprietorship which he has in his own goods and possessions,
nor does it infringe such title.
Acts 5:4; 11:29,30; 1 Cor. 12:14-27; Eph. 4:28; 6:4; Heb. 3:12,13; 10:24,25.
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