Omaha daily bee., 1890-03-30

unto salvation; but the full persuasion that
they are the very word OF COD is from the
inward work of the Holy Spirit, bearing
witnes5 by and with the word, in our
hcUrtS.
These scriptures are the only ruo of faith
and life teaching what man is to believe
concerning Coo and what duty God requires
of man.
There is but one only living and true
God who is a spirit, infinite, eternal and un
chaugenble, in His being, wisdom, power
holiness, Justice, goodness and truth, most
loving, gracious, merciful and long suffering,
forgiving inquiry, transgresslon ana sin
and who will by nc means clear the guilty.
In the unity of the Godhead there are
three persons, the Father, the Son. the Holy
Ghost; and these three are one God, the
same in substance, equal in power and
glory
God, from all eternity. aid by the most
wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely
and unchangeably ordan whatsoever comes
to pass yet so as thereby neither is God the
author of sin, nor is violence offered TO the
Will of his creatures, nor is the liberty or
contingency of second causes taken away
but rather established.
Out of his own free grace and love, God
has in Christ Jesus elected some to eternal
life. These being efeCtually called in due
season, are justified, adopted, sanctiHcd and
kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation.
The rest of mlnknd God was pleased ac-
according to the unSearchable council or his
own will whereby he eXtendeth or Withhold
eth mercy as he pleaseth for the glory of
his sovereign power over his creatures to
pass by.
God the Creator of all things, uphods,
directs, dsposcs and governs all his crea-
lures by His most wise and holy providence; +;
yet He so orders all things to fall out accord
ing to the nature of His creatures, and to
the operation of second causes, that God Is
neither the author nor approver OF SIN, nor
is the freedom or responsibility of man
taken away; bnt all is to the praise of the
glory of His wisdom, power, justice, good
ness and mercy.
Our first parents in the exercise of their
own free will fell from the estate wherein
they We're created, and all mankind,
alton, are allenated from God by wicked
works.
Sin is any want of conformity with or
transgrcssion of the law of God.
God, when lie had created man, entered
into covenant of life with him and his pos
terity on condition of perfect aud personal
obedience; which covenant man broke by
SHINING against God.
The Lord God. who is rich IN mercy, out
of the fullness of hls love was pleased to gu
ter into n covenant Of grace with man;
wherein, fOrcsignlfyng Christ by all tho
promises, prophecies, sacrifices and other
types IN the old testament, he did in the full
ness OF time fulfill his gracious purpose TO
deliver men out of the estate of sin ana ms.
cry, by sending his Son to be the saviour Il
the world, by whom full remission Of sin
and eternal salvation are secured to all
them that truly believe on him.
The Lord Jesus, the only begotton Son of
the Father, was chosen IN the eternal pur-
pose of God to be the mediator between God
and man, tho prophet priest and king, the
head and Saviour of His church, the heir of
all things and the judge of the world.
The son Of God, tho eternal word did in
the fullness of time become man by taking
to himself true body and u reasonable
OF the Holy Ghost and born of the
virgin Mary, vet without sin; and so was
and continues to be, divine and human two
whole, perfect and distinct natures, insepa-
rably joined together in one person. For
our oHenses lie endured most grieyous suf-
terlngs IN soul and body was crucitied, dead
ana buried, and remained under the power
or death, yet saw no corruption. lie now
SITS nj the right hand OF the Father, making
intercesslons Tor us and shall return TO Judge
the world AZ the last day,
The Lord Jesus by His word and spirit re.
veals unto us the will of God for our saliva
tion. by tiis perfect obedience and sacrifice
of Himself lie fully satisfied the divine jus-
tlce and purchased Tor us the forgiveness of
sins, reconciliation unto God, aud an ever
lasting inheritance in the Kingdom OF heaven.
GOD has eudued the will of man with such
natural liberty that II is neither forced nor
by any absolute necessity determined to good
or evil Nevertheless, such Is the state OF
sin into which the fall brought mankind
that no man Is able by his own strength TO