The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-07-09
DANIEL wEBsTER's CONFESSION OF
FAITH

believe in the existence Of Almighty
God. who created and governs the whole
world. | am taught this by the works of ma
ture and the word Of revelation.
believe that God exists in three persons
this learn from revelation alone. Nor il
il any objection 70 this belief that cannot
comprehend how one can be three or three
one. hold il my duty to believe not what
] can comprehend or account for, but what
my Maker teaches me.
Il believe the Scriptures Of the Old and
New Testament to be the will and word Of
God.
believe Jesus Christ 10 be the Son OF
God. The miracles which he wrought es-
tsblish. in my mind, his personal authority.
and render IL proper for me TO believe what
ever he asserts believe, therefore, all his
declarations. as well when he declares him
self 10 be the Son Of God, as when He
declares any other prepo sition. And be-
lieve there is no other way Of salvation. than
through the merits OF his atonement.
believe that things past. present, and to
come. are all equally present IN the mind Of
the Deity that With him there is no sue-
cession Of time. nor Of ideas; that therefore,
the relative terms. past. present and future.
as used among men, cannot, with strict pro-
priety, be applied TO Deity. believe in the
doctrines Of forekaowledge and predestina-
ton, As thus expounded. do not believe
in these doctrines as imposing any fatality
Or necessity on mems actions, or any way
Infringing free agency.
believe in the utter inability Of any hu-
man being 10 work out his own salvation.
withost The constant aids Of the Spirit Of all
grace.
believe in those great peculiarities Of
the Christian religion-a Resurrection from
The dead and day of judgment.
l believe IN the universal Providence OF
God and leave 10 Epicurus, and his more un-
reasonable followers in modern times, ineon-
sisteney Of believing that Cod made world
which Ne does not take the trouble Of gov :
erning.
Although have great respect Cor some
other forms Of worship, believe the Con.
gregatiopsl mode, on The whole, TO be pre-
ferable to any other.
believe religion 20 be matter not Of de-
monstrztion. BAT Uf faith. God requires rs
10 give credit 70 the truths which He re-
veals, not because we can prove them, bat
because He declares them. When The mind
is reasonably convinced that the Bible is
the word Of God. the only remaining duty is,
70 receive is doctrines. with fall confidence
Of their truth. and practise them with pure
heart.
believe that the Bible 10 20 be under-
stood and received in the plain and obyieus
meaning q is passages sincs ! cannot per-
suads myself that book intended for the
instruction and conversion q the whole world,
should cover lis true meaning Ia ssch mys-
terry and dosbt. that none but critics and
philosophers can discover ".
believe that the experiesce and subtle.
ties OF human wisdom are more likely TO
obscure, than ts eslighten the revealed viii
u God. aad that he is the most scconplish-
ed scholar who hath been edsested AZ the
feet Of Jesss, and 10 the College Of Fisher
men.
l believe that ali true religion consists in
The heart and the aztec ,ions, and that, there
fore. oil ereeds and confessions are fsIlibIe
and uncertain evidences Of evangelical pie
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