1689 LBCF ch. 15: Of Repentance unto Life and Salvation
Source: 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Chapter 15) · creed
Such of the elect as are converted at riper years, having sometime lived in the state of nature and therein served divers lusts and pleasures, God in their effectual calling gives them repentance unto life.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Apostles' Creed (c. AD 404)
- manuscript_tradition: Pirminius, De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus (c. AD 750) — earliest received form
- translation: Latin (Symbolum Apostolicum) — Western Church
- citation_tradition: Cited by every major catechism since 8th century
- republication: CCEL — Creeds of Christendom (Schaff)
Connections
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