V. The Lord Jes us became in every respect a rea l man, possessed of all the essential characte ristics of human nature. VI. By His death upon the cross, the Lord Jesus made a perfect atonement for sin, by which the wrath of God against sinners is appeased, and a ground furnished upon which God can deal in mercy with sinners. He redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place. He Who Himself was absolutely without sin, was made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the ri g hteousness of God in Him. The Lord Jesus is coming again to thi s ea rth , persona ll y, bodily, and visibly. The return of our Lord is the bl essed hope of the believe r, and in it God 's purposes of g race toward mankind w ill Find their co nsummation . VII. The Holy Spirit is a person and is possessed of all th e distinctively divine attributes. He is God. VIII. Man was created in the image of God, after His likeness , but the whole human race fell in the fall of the first Adam. All men , until they accept the Lord Jesus as their persona l Saviour, a re lost, darkened in their understa ndin g, al ienated from the li fe of God through the ignorance that is in them, hardened in hea rt, moral ly and spiritualy dead through . their trespasses and sins. They ca nn ot see , nor enter the Kingdom of God until they are born again of: the Hol y Spirit. IX. Men arejustified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Chri st, and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him Who shed the blood , and are born again by the quickening, renewi ng, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God. X. All those who rece ive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and their Lo rd, and who confess Him as such befo re their fellow men, become children of God, and rece ive ete rnal life. They become heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Chri st. At death their spirits depa rt to be with C hrist in consc ious bl essed ness, and at the second coming of Christ, their bodies shall be raised and transfo rmed into the likeness of the body of His glory. XI. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be ra ised from the dead, and throughout ete rnity exist in a state of conscious, unutterabl e, endl ess torment and anguish. XII. The C hurch consists of all those who, in this present dispensation , truly beli eve on Jesus Christ. It is the body and bride of Christ, which Chri st loves, and for which He has given Himself up. XIII. There is a personal devil, a being of g reat cunning and power, "The prince of the power of the air," "The prince of this world," "The god of this age." He ca n exe rt his vast power only so far as God suffers him to do so. He shall ultimately be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, and shall be tormen ted day and night forever.
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