Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-04
That AndOver Creed.
Which Every Professor Musa &Eespt, and Renew His Assent to Every Fifth Year.


 Renew His Assent to Every Fifth
 Year.
 [Thts Is the Associate Founders Creed" "after- ward aays the congegatto'ealfst adopted word for changeabe basis of the doctrine to be taught in the of s o day" was willing to subscribe, and which Rnally proves too much for the conscience of Professor J. H. Thayer.l
 I believe that there is one and but one living and true God that the word of God contained in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament, is the only perfect rule of faith and practice; that agreeably to these scriptures God is spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice goodness and truth that in the Godhead are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost and that these three are One God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; that God created man, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness and holiness; that tho glory of God is mans chief end, and the enjoyment of God his supreme happiness that this enjoyment is derived solely from conformity of heart to the moral character and will of God; that Adam, the federal head and representative of the human race, was placed iu 8 state of probation, and that, in consequence of his disobedience, all his descendants were constituted sinners that by nature every man is personally aepraved, destitute of holiness unlike and opposed to God and that, previously to the renewing agency of the Divine Spirit all his moral ac- tions are adverse to the character and glory of God; that, being morally incapable of recovering the image of his Creator, which was lost in Adam, every man IS justly exposed to eternal damnation so that, except man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God that God, of his mere good pleasure from all eternity elected some to everlasting life, and that he entered into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of this state of sin and misery by Redeemer that the only Redeemer of the elect is the eternal Son of God. who for this purpose became man, and continues to be God and man in two distinct natures and one person forever that Christ as our Redeemer, exscuteth the office of 8 Prophet, Priest and King that, agreeably to the covenant of redemption the Son of God, and he alone, by his sufferings and death, has made atouement for the sins of all men that repentance, faith and holiness are the personal requisites in the gospel scheme of salvation that the righteousness of Christ Is the only ground of 0 sinner s justification that this righteousness is re- ceived through faith and that this faith is the gift of God; so that our salvation is wholly of grace; that no means whatever can change the heart of sinner and make 1t holy that regeneration and sanotiacation are effects of the creating and renewing agency of the Holy Spirit, and that supreme love to God constitutes the essential differ enCe between SAintS and sinners, that by convincing of our sin and misery, enlight ening minds working faith in us, and renewing wills, the Holy Spirit makes us l partakers of the benefits of redemption and that the ordinary means, by which these 1 benefits are communicated to us, are the word, sacraments and prayer that repcn ! tance unto life faith to feed upon Christ, | love to God and new obedience, are the ap 1 propriate qualifications for the Lords Sup 1 per and that a Christian church ought to admit person to it's holy communion be- fore he exhibits credible evidence of his god | ly sincerity that perseverance in holiness is the only method of making our calling and election sure; and that the final perss sverance of saints, though it Is the effect of the special 1 operation of God on their hearts, necessarily l implies their own watchful diligence that 1 they, who are effectually called do in this 1 life partake of justification, adoption and sanctifcation, and the several benefits, which | do either accompany or flow from them that the souls of believers are at their deatt made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory; that their bodies, being stil united to Christ, will at the resurrection bt raised up to glory, and that the saints will b, made perfectly blessed in the full enjoymen of God to all eternity; but that tha wicked will awake to shame and everlasting con tempt, and with devils be plunged into tn, lake that burneth with fire and brimston forever and ever. I moreover believe that God according t, the counsel of his own will, and for his owl
 glory, hath foreordained whatsoever come
 to pass, and that all beings, actions an