(Second London Baptist Confession of Faith: 1689, part 2)


Chapter 13
Of Sanctification

1. They who are united to Christ, effectually called, and 
regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them 
through the virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, are also 
farther sanctified, really and personally(1) through the same virtue, 
by His Word and Spirit dwelling in them;(2) the dominion of the whole 
body of sin is destroyed,(3) and the several lusts thereof are more 
and more weakened and mortified,(4) and they more and more quickened 
and strengthened in all saving graces,(5) to the practice of all true 
holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.(6)

1. Ac 20:32; Ro 6:5-6.
2. Jn 17:17; Eph 3:16-19; 1Th 5:21-23.
3. Ro 6:14.
4. Gal 5:24.
5. Col 1:11.
6. 2Co 7:1; Heb 12:14.


2. This sanctification is throughout the whole man,(7) yet imperfect 
in this life; there abideth still some remnants of corruption in 
every part,(8) whence ariseth a continual and irreconcilable war; the 
flesh lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the 
flesh.(9)

7. 1Th 5:23.
8. Ro 7:18,23.
9. Gal 5:17; 1Pe 2:11.


3. In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may 
much prevail,(10) yet, through the continual supply of strength from 
the sanctifying Spirit of Christ, the regenerate part doth 
overcome;(11) and so the saints grow in grace, perfecting holiness in 
the fear of God, pressing after an heavenly life, in evangelical 
obedience to all the commands which Christ as Head and King, in His 
Word hath prescribed to them.(12)

10. Ro 7:23.
11. Ro 6:14.
12. Eph 4:15-16; 2Co 3:18; 7:1.


Chapter 14
Of Saving Faith

1. The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to 
the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in 
their hearts,(1) and is ordinarily wrought by the ministry of the 
Word;(2) by which also, and by the administration of baptism and the 
Lord's Supper, prayer, and other means appointed of God, it is 
increased and strengthened.(3)

1. 2Co 4:13; Eph 2:8.
2. Ro 10:14,17.
3. Lk 17:5; 1Pe 2:2; Ac 20:32.


2. By this faith a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is 
revealed in the Word for the authority of God Himself,(4) and also 
apprehendeth an excellency therein above all other writings and all 
things in the world,(5) as it bears forth the glory of God in His 
attributes, the excellency of Christ in His nature and offices, and 
the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit in His workings and 
operations: and so is enabled to cast his soul upon the truth thus 
believed;(6) and also acteth differently upon that which each 
particular passage thereof containeth; yielding obedience to the 
commands,(7) trembling at the threatenings,(8) and embracing the 
promises of God for this life and that which is to come;(9) but the 
principle acts of saving faith have immediate relation to Christ, 
accepting, receiving, and resting upon Him alone for justification, 
sanctification, and eternal life, by virtue of the covenant of 
grace.(10)

4. Ac 24:14.
5. Ps 19:7-10; 119:72.
6. 2Ti 1:12.
7. Jn 15:14.
8. Isa 66:2.
9. Heb 11:13.
10. Jn 1:12; Ac 16:31; Gal 2:20; Ac 15:11.


3. This faith, although it be different in degrees, and may be weak 
or strong,(11) yet it is in the least degree of it different in the 
kind or nature of it, as is all other saving grace, from the faith 
and common grace of temporary believers;(12) and therefore, though it 
may be many times assailed and weakened, yet it gets the victory,(13) 
growing up in many to the attainment of a full assurance through 
Christ,(14) who is both the author and finisher of our faith.(15)

11. Heb 5:13-14; Mt 6:30; Ro 4:19-20.
12. 2Pe 1:1.
13. Eph 6:16; 1Jn 5:4-5.
14. Heb 6:11-12; Col 2:2.
15. Heb 12:2.


Chapter 15
Of Repentance Unto Life and Salvation

1. Such of the elect as are converted in riper years, having sometime 
lived in the state of nature, and therein served divers lusts and 
pleasures, God in their effectual calling giveth them repentance unto 
life.(1)

1. Tit 3:2-5.


2. Whereas there is none that doth good and sinneth not,(2) and the 
best of men may, through the power and deceitfulness of their 
corruption dwelling in them, with the prevalency of temptation, fall 
in to great sins and provocations; God hath, in the covenant of 
grace, mercifully provided that believers so sinning and falling be 
renewed through repentance unto salvation.(3)

2. Ecc 7:20.
3. Lk 22:31-32.


3. This saving repentance is an evangelical grace,(4) whereby a 
person, being by the Holy Spirit made sensible of the manifold evils 
of his sin, doth, by faith in Christ, humble himself for it with 
godly sorrow, detestation of it, and self-abhorrency,(5) praying for 
pardon and strength of grace, with a purpose and endeavour, by 
supplies of the Spirit, to walk before God unto all well-pleasing in 
all things.(6)

4. Zec 12:10; Ac 11:18.
5. Eze 36:31; 2Co 7:11.
6. Ps 119:6,128.


4. As repentance is to be continued through the whole course of our 
lives, upon the account of the body of death, and the motions 
thereof, so it is every man's duty to repent of his particular known 
sins particularly.(7)

7. Lk 19:8; 1Ti 1:13,15.


5. Such is the provision which God hath made through Christ in the 
covenant of grace for the preservation of believers unto salvation, 
that although there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation,(8) 
yet there is no sin so great that it shall bring damnation on them 
that repent,(9) which makes the constant preaching of repentance 
necessary.

8. Ro 6:23.
9. Isa 1:16-18; 55:7.


Chapter 16
Of Good Works

1. Good works are only such as God hath commanded in His Holy 
Word,(1) and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by 
men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intentions.(2)

1. Mic 6:8; Heb 13:21.
2. Mt 15:9; Isa 29:13.


2. These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the 
fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;(3) and by them 
believers manifest their thankfulness,(4) strengthen their 
assurance,(5) edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the 
gospel,(6) stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glorify God,(7) 
whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto,(8) 
that having their fruit unto holiness they may have the end eternal 
life.(9)

3. Jas 2:18,22.
4. Ps 116:12-13.
5. 1Jn 2:3,5; 2Pe 1:5-11.
6. Mt 5:16.
7. 1Ti 6:1; 1Pe 2:15; Php 1:11.
8. Eph 2:10.
9. Ro 6:22.


3. Their ability to do good works is not all of themselves, but 
wholly from the Spirit of Christ;(10) and that they may be enabled 
thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is 
necessary an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit, to work in 
them to will and to do of His good pleasure;(11) yet they are not 
hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any 
duty, unless upon a special motion of the Spirit, but they ought to 
be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.(12)

10. Jn 15:4-5.
11. 2Co 3:5; Php 2:13.
12. Php 2:12; Heb 6:11-12; Isa 64:7.


4. They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is 
possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, 
and to do more than God requires, as that they fall short of much 
which in duty they are bound to do.(13)

13. Job 9:2-3; Gal 5:17; Lk 17:10.


5. We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at 
the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between 
them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between 
us and God, whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfy for the 
debt of our former sins;(14) but when we have done all we can, we 
have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants; and because as 
they are good they proceed from His Spirit,(15) and as they are 
wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much weakness and 
imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's 
punishment.(16)

14. Ro 3:20; Eph 2:8-9; Ro 4:6.
15. Gal 5:22-23.
16. Isa 64:6; Ps 143:2.


6. Yet notwithstanding the persons of believers being accepted 
through Christ, their good works also are accepted in Him;(17) not as 
though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreprovable in 
God's sight, but that He, looking upon them in His Son, is pleased to 
accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with 
many weaknesses and imperfections.(18)

17. Eph 1:6; 1Pe 2:5.
18. Mt 25:21,23; Heb 6:10.


7. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them 
they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to 
themselves and others;(19) yet because they proceed not from a heart 
purified by faith,(20) nor are done in a right manner according to 
the Word,(21) nor to a right end, the glory of God,(22) they are 
therefore sinful, and cannot please God, nor make a man meet to 
receive grace from God,(23) and yet their neglect of them is more 
sinful and displeasing to God.(24)

19. 2Ki 10:30; 1Ki 21:27,29.
20. Ge 4:5; Heb 11:4,6.
21. 1Co 13:1.
22. Mt 6:2,5.
23. Am 5:21-22; Ro 9:16; Tit 3:5.
24. Job 21:14-15; Mt 25:41-43.


Chapter 17
Of The Perseverance Of The Saints

1. Those whom God hath accepted in the beloved, effectually called 
and sanctified by His Spirit, and given the precious faith of His 
elect unto, can neither totally nor finally fall from the state of 
grace, but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be 
eternally saved, seeing the gifts and callings of God are without 
repentance, whence He still begets and nourisheth in them faith, 
repentance, love, joy, hope, and all the graces of the Spirit unto 
immortality;(1) and tough many storms and floods arise and beat 
against them, yet they shall never be able to take them off that 
foundation and rock which by faith they are fastened upon; 
notwithstanding, through unbelief and the temptations of Satan, the 
sensible sight of the light and love of God may for a time be clouded 
and obscured from them,(2) yet He is still the same, and they shall 
be sure to be kept by the power of God unto salvation, where they 
shall enjoy their purchased possession, they being engraven upon the 
palm of His hands, and their names having been written in the book of 
life from all eternity.(3)

1. Jn 10:28-29; Php 1:6; 2Ti 2:19; 1Jn 2:19.
2. Ps 89:31-32; 1Co 11:32.
3. Mal 3:6.


2. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free 
will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election,(4) flowing 
from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father, upon the 
efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ and union with 
Him,(5) the oath of God,(6) the abiding of His Spirit, and the seed 
of God wthin them,(7) and the nature of the covenant of grace;(8) 
from all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.

4. Ro 8:30; 9:11,16.
5. Ro 5:9-10; Jn 14:19.
6. Heb 6:17-18.
7. 1Jn 3:9.
8. Jer 32:40.


3. And though they may, through the temptation of Satan and of the 
world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the 
neglect of means of their preservation, fall into grievous sins, and 
for a time continue therein,(9) whereby they incur God's displeasure 
and grieve His Holy Spirit,(10) come to have their graces and 
comforts impaired,(11) have their hearts hardened, and their 
consciences wounded,(12) hurt and scandalize others, and bring 
temporal judgements upon themselves,(13) yet shall they renew their 
repentance and be preserved through faith in Christ Jesus to the 
end.(14)

9. Mt 26:70,72,74.
10. Isa 64:5,9; Eph 4:30.
11. Ps 51:10,12.
12. Ps 32:3-4.
13. 2Sa 12:14.
14. Lk 22:32,61-62.


Chapter 18
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation

1. Although temporary believers, and other unregenerate men, may 
vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of 
being in the favour of God and state of salvation, which hope of 
theirs shall perish;(1) yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, 
and love Him in sincerity, endeavouring to walk in all good 
conscience before Him, may in this life be certainly assured that 
they are in the state of grace, and may rejoice in the hope of the 
glory of God,(2) which hope shall never make them ashamed.(3)

1. Job 8:13-14; Mt 7:22-23.
2. 1Jn 2:3; 3:14,18-19,21,24; 5:13.
3. Ro 5:2,5.


2. This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion 
grounded upon a fallible hope, but an infallible assurance of 
faith(4) founded on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in 
the Gospel;(5) and also upon the inward evidence of those graces of 
the Spirit unto which promises are made,(6) and on the testimony of 
the Spirit of adoption, witnessing with our spirits that we are the 
children of God;(7) and, as a fruit thereof, keeping the heart both 
humble and holy.(8)

4. Heb 6:11,19.
5. Heb 6:17-18.
6. 2Pe 1:4-5,10-11.
7. Ro 8:15-16.
8. 1Jn 3:1-3.


3. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of 
faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many 
difficulties before he be a partaker of it;(9) yet being enabled by 
the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he 
may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of means, 
attain thereunto:(10) and therefore it is the duty of every one to 
give all diligence to make his calling and election sure, that 
thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy 
Spirit, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and 
cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, the proper fruits of this 
assurance;(11)- so far is it from inclining men to looseness.(12)

9. Isa 50:10; Ps 88:1-18; Ps 77:1-12.
10. 1Jn 4:13; Heb 6:11-12.
11. Ro 5:1-2,5; 14:17; Ps 119:32.
12. Ro 6:1-2; Tit 2:11-12,14.


4. True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers 
ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as by negligence in 
preserving of it,(13) by falling into some special sin which woundeth 
the conscience and grieveth the Spirit;(14) by some sudden or 
vehement temptation,(15) by God's withdrawing the light of His 
countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness 
and to have no light,(16) yet are they never destitute of the seed of 
God(17) and life of faith,(18) that love of Christ and the brethren, 
that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty out of which, by the 
operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be 
revived,(19) and by the which, in the meantime, they are preserved 
from utter despair.(20)

13. SS 5:2-3,6.
14. Ps 51:8,12,14.
15. Ps 116:11; 77:7-8; 31:22.
16. Ps 30:7.
17. 1Jn 3:9.
18. Lk 22:32.
19. Ps 42:5,11.
20. La 3:26-31.


Chapter 19
Of the Law of God

1. God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his 
heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree 
of knowledge of good and evil;(1) by which He bound him and all his 
posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience;(2) 
promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the 
breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it.(3)

1. Ge 1:27; Ecc 7:29.
2. Ro 10:5.
3. Gal 3:10,12.


2. The same law that was first written in the heart of man continued 
to be a perfect rule of righteousness after the fall,(4) and was 
delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written 
in two tables, the four first containing our duty towards God, and 
the other six, our duty to man.(5)

4. Ro 2:14-15.
5. Dt 10:4.


3. Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give 
to the people of Israel ceremonial laws, containing several typical 
ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, His graces, 
actions, sufferings, and benefits;(6) and partly holding forth divers 
instructions of moral duties,(7) all which ceremonial laws being 
appointed only to the time of reformation, are, by Jesus Christ the 
true Messiah and only law-giver, who was furnished with power from 
the Father for that end abrogated and taken away.(8)

6. Heb 10:1; Col 2:17.
7. 1Co 5:7.
8. Col 2:14,16-17; Eph 2:14,16.


4. To them also He gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together 
with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that 
institution; their general equity only being for modern use.(9)

9. 1Co 9:8-10.


5. The moral law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as 
others, to the obedience thereof,(10) and that not only in regard of 
the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of 
God the Creator, who gave it;(11) neither doth Christ in the Gospel 
any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.(12)

10. Ro 13:8-10; Jas 2:8,10-12.
11. Jas 2:10-11.
12. Mt 5:17-19; Ro 3:31.


6. Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of 
works, to be thereby justified or condemned,(13) yet it is of great 
use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, 
informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and 
binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful 
pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining 
themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, 
humiliation for, and hatred against, sin;(14) together with a clearer 
sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of His 
obedience: it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their 
corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatening of it serve 
to shew what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this 
life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and 
unallayed rigour thereof. These promises of it likewise shew them 
God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect 
upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as 
a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, 
because the law encourageth to the one and deterreth from the other, 
is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace.(15)

13. Ro 6:14; Gal 2:16; Ro 8:1; 10:4.
14. Ro 3:20; 7:7-25.
15. Ro 6:12-14; 1Pe 3:8-13.


7. Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the 
grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it,(16) the Spirit of 
Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and 
cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requireth to 
be done.(17)

16. Gal 3:21.
17. Eze 36:27.


Chapter 20
Of the Gospel, and of the Extent of the Grace Thereof

1. The covenant of works being broken by sin, and made unprofitable 
unto life, God was pleased to give forth the promise of Christ, the 
seed of the woman, as the means of calling the elect, and begetting 
in them faith and repentance;(1) in this promise the gospel, as to 
the substance of it, was revealed, and [is] therein effectual for the 
conversion and salvation of sinners.(2)

1. Ge 3:15.
2. Rev 13:8.


2. This promise of Christ, and salvation by Him, is revealed only by 
the Word of God;(3) neither do the works of creation or providence, 
with the light of nature, make discovery of Christ, or of grace by 
Him, so much as in a general or obscure way;(4) much less that men 
destitute of the revelation of Him by the promise or gospel, should 
be enabled thereby to attain saving faith or repentance.(5)

3. Ro 1:17.
4. Ro 10:14-15,17.
5. Pr 29:18; Isa 25:7; 60:2-3.


3. The revelation of the gospel unto sinners, made in divers times 
and by sundry parts, with the addition of promises and precepts for 
the obedience required therein, as to the nations and persons to whom 
it is granted, is merely of the sovereign will and good pleasure of 
God;(6) not being annexed by virtue of any promise to the due 
improvement of men's natural abilities, by virtue of common light 
received without it, which none ever did make, or can do so;(7) and 
therefore in all ages, the preaching of the gospel has been granted 
unto persons and nations, as to the extent or straitening of it, in 
great variety, according to the counsel of the will of God.

6. Ps 147:20; Ac 16:7.
7. Ro 1:18-32.


4. Although the gospel be the only outward means of revealing Christ 
and saving grace, and is, as such, abundantly sufficient thereunto; 
yet that men who are dead in trespasses may be born again, quickened 
or regenerated, there is moreover necessary an effectual insuperable 
work of the Holy Spirit upon the whole soul, for the producing in 
them a new spiritual life;(8) without which no other means will 
effect their conversion unto God.(9)

8. Ps 110:3; 1Co 2:14; Eph 1:19-20.
9. Jn 6:44; 2Co. 4:4,6.


Chapter 21
Of Christian Liberty and Liberty of Conscience

1. The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the 
gospel, consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the 
condemning wrath of God, the rigour and curse of the law,(1) and in 
their being delivered from this present evil world,(2) bondage to 
Satan,(3) and dominion of sin,(4) from the evil of afflictions,(5) 
the fear and sting of death, the victory of the grave,(6) and 
everlasting damnation:(7) as also in their free access to God, and 
their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear,(8) but a 
child-like love and willing mind.(9)

        All which were common also to believers under the law for the 
substance of them,(10) but under the New Testament the liberty of 
Christians is further enlarged, in their freedom from the yoke of a 
ceremonial law, to which the Jewish church was subjected, and in 
greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and in fuller 
communications of the free Spirit of God, than believers under the 
law did ordinarily partake of.(11)

1. Gal 3:13.
2. Gal 1:4.
3. Ac 26:18.
4. Ro 8:3.
5. Ro 8:28.
6. 1Co 15:54-57.
7. 2Th 1:10.
8. Ro 8:15.
9. Lk 1:73-75; 1Jn 4:18.
10. Gal 3:9,14.
11. Jn 7:38-39; Heb 10:19-21.


2. God alone is Lord of the conscience,(12) and hath left it free 
from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in any thing 
contrary to His Word, or not contained in it.(13) So that to believe 
such doctrines, or obey such commands out of conscience, it so betray 
true liberty of conscience,(14) and the requiring of an implicit 
faith, an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of 
conscience and reason also.(15)

12. Jas 4:12; Ro 14:4.
13. Ac 4:19,29; 1Co 7:23; Mt 15:9.
14. Col 2:20,22-23.
15. 1Co 3:5; 2Co 1:24.


3. They who upon pretence of Christian liberty do practice any sin, 
or cherish any sinful lust, as they do thereby pervert the main 
design of the grace of the gospel to their own destruction,(16) so 
they wholly destroy the end of Christian liberty, which is, that 
being delivered out of the hands of all our enemies, we might serve 
the Lord without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all 
the days of our lives.(17)

16. Ro 6:1-2.
17. Gal 5:13; 2Pe 2:18,21.


Chapter 22
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath Day

1. The light of nature shews that there is a God, who hath lordship 
and sovereignty over all; is just, good and doth good unto all; and 
is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, 
and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the 
might.(1) But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God, is 
instituted by Himself,(2) and so limited by His own revealed will, 
that He may not be worshipped according to the imagination and 
devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan, under any visible 
representations, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy 
Scriptures.(3)

1. Jer 10:7; Mk 12:33.
2. Dt 12:32.
3. Ex 20:4-6.


2. Religious worship is to be given to God the Father, Son, and Holy 
Spirit, and to Him alone;(4) not to angels, saints, or any other 
creatures;(5) and since the fall, not without a mediator,(6) nor in 
the mediation of any other but Christ alone.(7)

4. Mt 4:9-10; Jn 6:23; Mt 28:19.
5. Ro 1:25; Col 2:18; Rev 19:10.
6. Jn 14:6.
7. 1Ti 2:5.


3. Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one part of natural worship, is 
by God required of all men.(8) But that it may be accepted, it is to 
be made in the name of the Son,(9) by the help of the Spirit,(10) 
according to His will;(11) with understanding, reverence, humility, 
fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and when with others , in a 
known tongue.(12)

8. Ps 95:1-7; 65:2.
9. Jn 14:13-14.
10. Ro 8:26.
11. 1Jn 5:14.
12. 1Co 14:16-17.


4. Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men 
living, or that shall live hereafter;(13) but not for the dead,(14) 
not for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin 
unto death.(15)

13. 1Ti 2:1-2; 2Sa 7:29.
14. 2Sa 12:21-23.
15. 1Jn 5:16.


5. The reading of the Scriptures,(16) preaching, and hearing the Word 
of God,(17) teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, 
and spiritual songs, singing with grace in our hearts to the 
Lord;(18) as also the administration of baptism,(19) and the Lord's 
supper,(20) are all parts of religious worship of God, to be 
performed in obedience to Him, with understanding, faith, reverence, 
and godly fear; moreover, solemn humiliation, with fastings,(21) and 
thanksgivings, upon special occasions, ought to be used in an holy 
and religious manner.(22)

16. 1Ti 4:13.
17. 2Ti 4:2; Lk 8:18.
18. Col 3:16; Eph 5:19.
19. Mt 28:19-20.
20. 1Co. 11:26.
21. Est 4:16; Joel 2:12.
22. Ex 15:1-19; Ps 107:1-43.


6. Neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship, is now 
under the gospel, tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in 
which it is performed, or towards which it is directed; but God is to 
be worshipped everywhere in spirit and in truth;(23) as in private 
families(24) daily,(25) and in secret each one by himself;(26) so 
more solemnly in the public assemblies, which are not carelessly nor 
wilfully to be neglected or forsaken, when God by His word or 
providence calleth thereto.(27)

23. Jn 4:21; Mal 1:11; 1Ti 2:8.
24. Ac 10:2.
25. Mt 6:11; Ps 55:17.
26. Mt 6:6.
27. Heb 10:25; Ac 2:42.


7. As it is the law of nature, that in general a proportion of time, 
by God's appointment, be set apart for the worship of God, so by His 
Word, in a positive moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all 
men, in all ages, He hath particularly appointed one day in seven for 
a sabbath to be kept holy unto Him,(28) which from the beginning of 
the world to the resurrection of Christ was the last day of the week, 
and from the resurrection of Christ was changed into the first day of 
the week, which is called the Lord's Day:(29) and is to be continued 
to the end of the world as a Christian Sabbath, the observation of 
the last day of the week being abolished.

28. Ex 20:8.
29. 1Co 16:1-2; Ac 20:7; Rev 1:10.


8. The sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due 
preparing of their hearts, and ordering their common affairs 
aforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all day, from their own 
works, words and thoughts, about their worldly employment and 
recreations,(30) but are also taken up the whole time in the public 
and private exercises of His worship, and in the duties of necessity 
and mercy.(31)

30. Isa 58:13; Ne 13:15-22.
31. Mt 12:1-13.


Chapter 23
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows

1. A lawful oath is a part of religious worship, wherein the person 
swearing in truth, righteousness, and judgment, solemnly calleth God 
to witness what he sweareth,(1) and to judge him according to the 
truth or falseness thereof(2)

1. Ex 20:7; Dt 10:20; Jer 4:2.
2. 2Ch 6:22-23.


2. The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear; and 
therein it is to be used, with all holy fear and reverence; therefore 
to swear vainly or rashly by that glorious and dreadful name, or to 
swear at all by any other thing, is sinful, and to be abhorred;(3) 
yet as in matter of weight and moment, for confirmation of truth, and 
ending all strife, an oath is warranted by the Word of God;(4) so a 
lawful oath being imposed by lawful authority in such matters, ought 
to be taken.(5)

3. Mt 5:34,37; Jas 5:12.
4. Heb 6:16; 2Co 1:23.
5. Ne 13:25.


3. Whosoever taketh an oath warranted by the Word of God, ought duly 
to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to 
avouch nothing but what he knoweth to be truth; for that by rash, 
false, and vain oaths, the Lord is provoked, and for them this land 
mourns.(6)

6. Lev 19:12; Jer 23:10.


4. An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, 
without equivocation or mental reservation.(7)

7. Ps 24:4.


5. A vow, which is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone, 
is to be made and performed with all religious care and 
faithfulness;(8) but popish monastical vows of perpetual single 
life,(9) professed poverty,(10) and regular obedience, are so far 
from being degrees of higher perfection, that they are superstitious 
and sinful snares, in which no Christian may entangle himself.(11)

8. Ps 76:11; Ge 28:20-22.
9. 1Co 7:2,9.
10. Eph 4:28.
11. Mt 19:11.


Chapter 24
Of the Civil Magistrate

1. God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained 
civil magistrates to be under Him, over the people, for His own glory 
and the public good; and to this end hath armed them with the power 
of the sword, for defence and encouragement of them that do good, and 
for the punishment of evil doers.(1)

1. Ro 13:1-4.


2. It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a 
magistrate when called thereunto; in the management whereof, as they 
ought especially to maintain justice and peace,(2) according to the 
wholesome laws of each kingdom and commonwealth, so for that end they 
may lawfully now, under the New Testament, wage war upon just and 
necessary occasions.(3)

2. 2Sa 23:3; Ps 82:3-4.
3. Lk 3:14.


3. Civil magistrates being set up by God for the ends aforesaid; 
subjection, in all lawful things commanded by them, ought to be 
yielded by us in the Lord, not only for wrath, but for conscience' 
sake;(4) and we ought to make supplications and prayers for kings and 
all that are in authority, that under them we may live a quiet and 
peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.(5)

4. Ro 13:5-7; 1Pe 2:17.
5. 1Ti 2:1-2.


Chapter 25
Of Marriage

1. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman; neither is it 
lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to 
have more than one husband at the same time.(1)

1. Ge 2:24; Mal 2:15; Mt 19:5-6.


2. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife,(2) 
for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue,(3) and for 
preventing uncleanness.(4)

2. Ge 2:18.
3. Ge 1:28.
4. 1Co 7:2,9.


3. It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with 
judgment to give their consent;(5) yet it is the duty of Christians 
to marry in the Lord;(6) and therefore such as profess the true 
religion, should not marry with infidels, or idolators; neither 
should such as are godly, be unequally yoked, by marrying with such 
as are wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresy.(7)

5. Heb 13:4; 1Ti 4:3.
6. 1Co 7:39.
7. Ne 13:25-27.


4. Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or 
affinity, forbidden in the Word;(8) nor can such incestuous marriages 
ever be made lawful, by any law of man or consent of parties, so as 
those persons may live together as man and wife.(9)

8. Lev 18:1-30.
9. Mk 6:18; 1Co 5:1.


Chapter 26
Of the Church

1. The catholic or universal church, which(with respect to the 
internal work of the Spirit and truth of grace) may be called 
invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, 
are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ, the head thereof; 
and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in 
all.(1)

1. Heb 12:23; Col 1:18; Eph 1:10,22-23; 5:23,27,32.


2. All persons throughout the world, professing the faith of the 
gospel, and obedience unto God by Christ according unto it, not 
destroying their own profession by any error everting the foundation, 
or unholiness of conversation, are and may be called visible 
saints;(2) and of such ought all particular congregations to be 
constituted.(3)

2. 1Co 1:2; Ac 11:26.
3. Ro 1:7; Eph 1:20-22.


3. The purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and 
error;(4) and some have so degenerated as to become no churches of 
Christ, but synagogues of Satan;(5) nevertheless Christ always hath 
had, and ever shall have a kingdom in this world, to the end thereof, 
of such as believe in Him, and make profession of His name.(6)

4. 1Co 5:1-13; Rev 2:1-29; 3:1-22.
5. Rev 18:2; 2Th 2:11-12.
6. Mt 16:18; Ps 72:17; 102:28; Rev 12:17.


4. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Head of the church, in whom, by the 
appointment of the Father all power for the calling, institution, 
order, or government of the church, is invested in a supreme and 
sovereign manner;(7) neither can the Pope of Rome in any sense be 
head thereof, but is that antichrist, that man of sin, and son of 
perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and 
all that is called God; whom the Lord shall destroy with the 
brightness of His coming.(8)

7. Col 1:18; Mt 28:18-20; Eph 4:11-12.
8. 2Th 2:2-9.
A note on this paragraph


5. In the execution of this power wherewith He is so intrusted, the 
Lord Jesus calleth out of the world unto Himself, through the 
ministry of His Word, by His Spirit, those that are given unto Him by 
His Father,(9) that they may walk before Him in all the ways of 
obedience, which He prescribeth to them in His Word.(10) Those thus 
called, He commandeth to walk together in particular societies, or 
churches, for their mutual edification, and the due performance of 
that public worship, which He requireth of them in the world.(11)

9. Jn 10:16; 12:32.
10. Mt 28:20.
11. Mt 18:15-20.


6. The members of these churches are saints by calling, visibly 
manifesting and evidencing(in and by their profession and walking) 
their obedience unto that call of Christ;(12) and do willingly 
consent to walk together, according to the appointment of Christ; 
giving up themselves to the Lord, and one to another, by the will of 
God, in professed subjection to the ordinances of the Gospel.(13)

12. Ro 1 :7; 1Co 1:2.
13. Ac 2:41-42; 5:13-14; 2Co 9:13.


7. To each of these churches thus gathered, according to His mind 
declared in His Word, He hath given all that power and authority, 
which is in any way needful for their carrying on that order in 
worship and discipline, which He hath instituted for them to observe; 
with commands and rules for the due and right exerting, and executing 
of that power.(14)

14. Mt 18:17-18; 1Co 5:4-5; 5:13; 2Co 2:6-8.


8. A particular church, gathered and completely organized according 
to the mind of Christ, consists of officers and members; and the 
officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the 
church(so called and gathered), for the peculiar administration of 
ordinances, and execution of power or duty, which He entrusts them 
with, or calls them to, to be continued to the end of the world, are 
bishops or elders, and deacons.(15)

15. Ac 20:17,28; Php 1:1.


9. The way appointed by Christ for the calling of any person, fitted 
and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the office of bishop or elder in 
a church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of 
the church itself;(16) and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, 
with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be 
any before constituted therein;(17) and of a deacon that he be chosen 
by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like 
imposition of hands.(18)

16. Ac 14:23.
17. 1Ti 4:14.
18. Ac 6:3,5-6.


10. The work of pastors being constantly to attend the service of 
Christ, in His churches, in the ministry of the Word and prayer, with 
watching for their souls, as they that must give an account to 
Him;(19) it is incumbent on the churches to whom they minister, not 
only to give them all due respect, but also to communicate to them of 
all their good things, according to their ability,(20) so as they may 
have a comfortable supply, without being themselves entangled in 
secular affairs;(21) and may also be capable of exercising 
hospitality towards others;(22) and this is required by the law of 
nature, and by the express order of our Lord Jesus, who hath ordained 
that they that preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel.(23)

19. Ac 6:4; Heb 13:17.
20. 1Ti 5:17-18; Gal 6:6-7.
21. 2Ti 2:4.
22. 1Ti 3:2.
23. 1Co 9:6-14.


11. Although it be incumbent on the bishops or pastors of the 
churches, to be instant in preaching the Word, by way of office, yet 
the work of preaching the Word is not so peculiarly confined to them 
but that others also gifted and fitted by the Holy Spirit for it, and 
approved and called by the church, may and ought to perform it.(24)

24. Ac 11:19-21; 1Pe 4:10-11.


12. As all believers are bound to join themselves to particular 
churches, when and where they have opportunity so to do; so all that 
are admitted unto the privileges of a church, are also under the 
censures and government thereof, according to the rule of Christ.(25)

25. 1Th 5:14; 2Th 3:6,14-15.


13. No church members, upon any offence taken by them, having 
performed their duty required of them towards the person they are 
offended at, ought to disturb any church-order, or absent themselves 
from the assemblies of the church, or administration of any 
ordinances, upon the account of such offence at any of their fellow 
members, but to wait upon Christ, in the further proceedings of the 
church.(26)

26. Mt 18:15-17; Eph 4:2-3.


14. As each church, and all the members of it, are bound to pray 
continually for the good and prosperity of all the churches of 
Christ,(27) in all places, and upon all occasions to further every 
one within the bounds of their places and callings, in the exercise 
of their gifts and graces, so the churches, when planted by the 
providence of God, so as they may enjoy opportunity and advantage for 
it, ought to hold communion among themselves, for their peace, 
increase of love, and mutual edification.(28)

27. Eph 6:18; Ps 122:6.
28. Ro 16:1-2; 3Jn 8-10.


15. In cases of difficulties or differences, either in point of 
doctrine or administration, wherein either the churches in general 
are concerned, or any one church, in their peace, union, and 
edification; or any member or members of any church are injured, in 
or by any proceedings in censures not agreeable to truth and order: 
it is according to the mind of Christ, that many churches holding 
communion together, do, by their messengers, meet to consider, and 
give their advice in or about that matter in difference, to be 
reported to all the churches concerned;(29) howbeit these messengers 
assembled, are not intrusted with any church-power properly so 
called; or with any jurisdiction over the churches themselves, to 
exercise any censures either over any churches or persons; or to 
impose their determination on the churches or officers.(30)

29. Ac 15:2,4,6,22-23,25.
30. 2Co 1:24; 1Jn 4:1.


Chapter 27
Of the Communion of Saints

1. All saints that are united to Jesus Christ, their head, by His 
Spirit, and faith, although they are not made thereby one person with 
Him, have fellowship in His graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, 
and glory;(1) and, being united to one another in love, they have 
communion in each others gifts and graces,(2) and are obliged to the 
performance of such duties, public and private, in an orderly way, as 
do conduce to their mutual good, both in the inward and outward 
man.(3)

1. 1Jn 1:3; Jn 1:16; Php 3:10; Ro 6:5-6.
2. Eph 4:15-16; 1Co 12:7; 3:21-23.
3. 1Th 5:11,14; Ro 1:12; 1Jn 3:17-18; Gal 6:10.


2. Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and 
communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other 
spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification;(4) as also in 
relieving each other in outward things according to their several 
abilities, and necessities;(5) which communion, according to the rule 
of the gospel, though especially to be exercised by them, in the 
relation wherein they stand, whether in families,(6) or churches,(7) 
yet, as God offereth opportunity, is to be extended to all the 
household of faith, even all those who in every place call upon the 
name of the Lord Jesus; nevertheless their communion one with another 
as saints, doth not take away or infringe the title or propriety 
which each man hath in his goods and possessions.(8)

4. Heb 10:24-25; 3:12-13.
5. Ac 11:29-30.
6. Eph 6:4.
7. 1Co 12:14-27.
8. Ac 5:4; Eph 4:28.


Chapter 28
Of Baptism and the Lord's Supper

1. Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of positive and 
sovereign institution, appointed by the Lord Jesus, the only 
lawgiver, to be continued in His church to the end of the world.(1)

1. Mt 28:19-20; 1Co 11:26.


2. These holy appointments are to be administered by those only who 
are qualified and thereunto called, according to the commission of 
Christ.(2)

2. Mt 28:19; 1Co 4:1.


Chapter 29
Of Baptism

1. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus 
Christ, to be unto the party baptized, a sign of his fellowship with 
Him, in His death and resurrection; of his being engrafted into 
Him;(1) of remission of sins;(2) and of giving up into God, through 
Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life.(3)

1. Ro 6:3-5; Col 2:12; Gal 3:27.
2. Mk 1:4; Ac 22:16.
3. Ro 6:4.


2. Those who do actually profess repentance towards God, faith in, 
and obedience to, our Lord Jesus Christ, are the only proper subjects 
of this ordinance.(4)

4. Mk 16:16; Ac 8:36-37; 2:41; 8:12; 18:8.


3. The outward element to be used in this ordinance is water, wherein 
the party is to be baptized, in the name of the Father, and of the 
Son, and of the Holy Spirit.(5)

5. Mt 28:19-20; Ac 8:38.


4. Immersion, or dipping of the person in water, is necessary to the 
due administration of this ordinance.(6)

6. Mt 3:16, Jn 3:23.


Chapter 30
Of the Lord's Supper

1. The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by Him the same night 
wherein He was betrayed, to be observed in His churches, unto the end 
of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and shewing forth the 
sacrifice of Himself in His death,(1) confirmation of the faith of 
believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, 
and growth in Him, their further engagement in, and to all duties 
which they owe to Him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion 
with Him, and with each other.(2)

1. 1Co 11:23-26.
2. 1Co 10:16-17,21.


2. In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to His Father, nor any 
real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, 
but only a memorial of that one offering up of Himself by Himself 
upon the cross, once for all;(3) and a spiritual oblation of all 
possible praise unto God for the same.(4) So that the popish 
sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominable, injurious 
to Christ's own sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of 
the elect.

3. Heb 9:25-26,28.
4. 1Co 11:24; Mt 26:26-27.


3. The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed His ministers to 
pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set 
them apart from a common to a holy use, and to take and break the 
bread; to take the cup, and, they communicating also themselves, to 
give both to the communicants.(5)

5. 1Co 11:23-26.


4. The denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the 
lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and reserving 
them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature 
of this ordinance, and to the institution of Christ.(6)

6. Mt 26:26-28; 15:9; Ex 20:4-5.


5. The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use 
ordained by Christ, have such relation to Him crucified, as that 
truly, although in terms used figuratively, they are sometimes called 
by the names of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood 
of Christ,(7) albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain 
truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.(8)

7. 1Co 11:27.
8. 1Co 11:26-28.


6. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread 
and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly 
called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any 
other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone,(9) but even to common 
sense and reason, overthroweth the nature of the ordinance, and hath 
been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross 
idolatries.(10)

9. Ac 3:21; Lk 24:6,39.
10. 1Co 11:24-25.


7. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in 
this ordinance, do them also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, 
yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed 
upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of His death; the body 
and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but 
spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as 
the elements themselves are to their outward senses.(11)

11. 1Co 10:16; 11:23-26.


8. All ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy 
communion with Christ, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and 
cannot, without great sin against Him, while they remain such, 
partake of these holy mysteries, or be admitted thereunto;(12) yea, 
whosoever shall receive unworthily, are guilty of the body and blood 
of the Lord, eating and drinking judgment to themselves.(13)

12. 2Co 6:14-15.
13. 1Co 11:29; Mt 7:6.


Chapter 31
Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead

1. The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see 
corruption(1) but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an 
immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.(2) The 
souls of the righteous being then made perfect in holiness, are 
received into paradise, where they are with Christ, and behold the 
face of God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of 
their bodies;(3) and the souls of the wicked are cast into hell; 
where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved to the 
judgment of the great day;(4) besides these two places, for souls 
separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.

1. Ge 3:19; Ac 13:36.
2. Ecc 12:7.
3. Lk 23:43; 2Co 5:1,6,8; Php 1:23, Heb 12:23.
4. Jude 6-7; 1Pe 3:19; Lk 16:23-24.


2. At the last day, such of the saints as are found alive, shall not 
sleep, but be changed;(5) and all the dead shall be raised up with 
the selfsame bodies, and none other;(6) although with different 
qualities, which shall be united again to their souls for ever.(7)

5. 1Co 15:51-52; 1Th 4:17.
6. Job 19:26-27.
7. 1Co 15:42-43.


3. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised 
to dishonour; the bodies of the just, by His Spirit, unto honour, and 
be made conformable to His own glorious body.(8)

8. Ac 24:15; Jn 5:28-29; Php 3:21.


Chapter 32
Of the Last Judgment

1. God hath appointed a day wherein He will judge the world in 
righteousness, by Jesus Christ;(1) to whom all power and judgment is 
given of the Father; in which day, not only the apostate angels shall 
be judged,(2) but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth 
shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, to give an account of 
their thoughts, words, and deeds, and to receive according to what 
they have done in the body, whether good or evil.(3)

1. Ac 17:31; Jn 5:22, 27.
2. 1Co 6:3; Jude 6.
3. 2Co 5:10; Ecc 12:14; Mt 12:36; Ro 14:10,12; Mt 25:32-46.


2. The end of God's appointing this day, is for the manifestation of 
the glory of His mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of 
His justice, in the eternal damnation of the reprobate, who are 
wicked and disobedient:(4) for then shall the righteous go into 
everlasting life, and receive that fullness of joy and glory with 
everlasting rewards, in the presence of the Lord; but the wicked, who 
know not God, and obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast 
aside into everlasting torments,(5) and punished with everlasting 
destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His 
power.(6)

4. Ro 9:22-23.
5. Mt 25:21,34; 2Ti 4:8.
6. Mt 25:46; Mk 9:48; 2Th 1:7-10.


3. As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall 
be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin,(7) and for the 
greater consolation of the godly in their adversity,(8) so will He 
have the day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal 
security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour 
the Lord will come,(9) and may ever be prepared to say, "Come Lord 
Jesus; come quickly".(10) Amen.

7. 2Co 5:10-11.
8. 2Th 1:5-7.
9. Mk 13:35-37; Lk 12:35-40.
10. Rev 22:20.


Signatories to the Confession of Faith

We the Ministers, and Messengers of, and concerned for upwards of, 
one hundred Baptized Churches, in England and Wales(denying 
Arminianism), being met together in London, from the third of the 
seventh month to the eleventh of the same, 1689, to consider of some 
things that might be for the glory of God, and the good of these 
congregations, have thought meet(for the satisfaction of all other 
Christians that differ from us in the point of Baptism) to recommend 
to their perusal the confession of our faith, which confession we 
own, as containing the doctrine of our faith and practice, and do 
desire that the members of our churches respectively do furnish 
themselves therewith.



Hansard Knollys         Pastor          Broken Wharf            London
William Kiffin          "               Devonshire-square       "
John Harris             "               Joiner's Hall           "
William Collins         "               Petty France            "
Hurcules Collins        "               Wapping                 "
Robert Steed            "               Broken Wharf            "
Leonard Harrison        "               Limehouse               "
George Barret           "               Mile End Green          "
Isaac Lamb              "               Pennington-street       "
Richard Adams           Minister        Shad Thames             Southwark
Benjamin Keach          Pastor          Horse-lie-down          "
Andrew Gifford          "               Bristol, Fryars         Som. & Glouc.
Thomas Vaux             "               Broadmead               "
Thomas Winnel           "               Taunton                 "
James Hitt              Preacher        Dalwood                 Dorset
Richard Tidmarsh        Minister        Oxford City             Oxon
William Facey           Pastor          Reading                 Berks
Samuel Buttall          Minister        Plymouth                Devon
Christopher Price       "               Abergavenny             Monmouth
Daniel Finch            "               Kingsworth              Herts
John Ball               "               Tiverton                Devon
Edmond White            Pastor          Evershall               Bedford
William Prichard        "               Blaenau                 Monmouth
Paul Fruin              Minister        Warwick                 Warwick
Richard Ring            Pastor          Southampton             Hants
John Tomkins            Minister        Abingdon                Berks
Toby Willes             Pastor          Bridgewater             Somerset
John Carter                             Steventon               Bedford
James Webb                              Devizes                 Wilts
Richard Sutton          Pastor          Tring                   Herts
Robert Knight           "               Stukeley                Bucks
Edward Price            "               Hereford City           Hereford
William Phipps          "               Exon                    Devon
William Hawkins         "               Dimmock                 Gloucester
Samuel Ewer             "               Hemstead                Herts
Edward Man              "               Houndsditch             London
Charles Archer          "               Hock-Norton             Oxon

        In the name of and on behalf of the whole assembly.






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