Confession of faith, undated, First Church of Christ in Granville, Mass.

Confession of Faith 1 You believe that there is but one only living and true God subsist =ting [in] three Glorious persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In whom are all possible perfections._ _ 2 2. You believe that God made and upholds all things by the word of his power, and is the Supreme Govenor of all worlds. - 3 3. You believe that the holy Scriptures are the word of God, and are A Perfect Rule of faith and practice. 4 4. You Believe that God made man originally upright in his own morral Image consisting in knowledge righteousness and true holiness 5 5. You believe that by the fall of adam and apostacy of the first Parents. of the human race their whole posterity born by ordinary generation are plunged into a State of Sin and misery. 6 6. You believe that it pleased God from all eternity to choose some of the fallen race of man, to everlasting life, to be obtained by Christ, the only redeemer, through the Sanctification of the Spirit and the be lief of the truth. 7 You believe that in the fullness of time God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that he was born of the virgin, made under the law, lived an holy life and died an accursed death, in the room and stead of Sinfull man and hereby has magnified the law and made it honourable, and brought in an everlasting righteousness for the Justification of all such that ^as truly believe in him 8 You believe that such faith & repentance as will produce holiness & obedience In life & conversation as the necessary terms of salvation as stated in the gospel 9 You believe that there are certain special ordinances instituted by Christ, the head and king of his church, which are Baptism, and the Lord Supper, to be religiously observed by his faithfull followers untill his Second coming. 10 [And Finally you believe that God has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by his Son Jesus Christ, who will then come in the Glory of his father, and all the holy angels with him,raise and summons all nations to appear before him to hear their final doom. Who will then say to all the righteous placed on his right hand, come ye blessed of my father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: but will say to the wicked on the left hand, who lived and died in Sins, depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.] Thus you profess to believe.