1689 London Baptist Confession, Chapter 7
Of God's Covenant
The distance between God and the Creature is so great, that although reasonable Creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have attained the reward of Life, but by some voluntary condescension on Gods part, which he hath been pleased to express, by way of Covenant.
Scripture references for paragraph 1
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Luke 17:1010So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
Job 35:77If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Job 35:88Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Moreover Man having brought himself under the curse of the Law by his fall, it pleased the Lord to make a Covenant of Grace wherein he freely offereth unto Sinners, Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them Faith in him, that they may be saved; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal Life, his holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe.
Scripture references for paragraph 2
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Genesis 2:1717but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Galatians 3:1010All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Romans 3:2020Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
Romans 3:2121But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
Romans 8:33For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
Mark 16:1515And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:1616Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 3:1616For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Ezekiel 36:2626I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:2727And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.
John 6:4444“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:4545It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
Psalms 110:33Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
This Covenant is revealed in the Gospel; first of all to Adam in the promise of Salvation by the seed of the woman, and afterwards by farther steps, untill the full discovery thereof was compleated in the new Testament; and it is founded in that Eternal Covenant transaction, that was between the Father and the Son, about the Redemption of the Elect; and it is alone by the Grace of this Covenant, that all of the posterity of fallen Adam, that ever were saved, did obtain life and a blessed immortality; Man being now utterly uncapable of acceptance with God upon those terms, on which Adam stood in his state of innocency.
Scripture references for paragraph 3
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Genesis 3:1515And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Hebrews 1:11On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
2 Timothy 1:99He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
Titus 1:22in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
Hebrews 11:66And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
Hebrews 11:1313All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Romans 4:11What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?
Romans 4:22If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God.
Acts 4:1212Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
John 8:5656Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
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