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Articles of Faith
1. The Absolute
Authority and Divine Verbal Inspiration of the Old and New
Testaments as the Word of God.
2. There is but one living and true God, and in the
Godhead, there are three Persons, equal in power and glory,
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
3. The Eternal Sonship, Virgin Birth, and Deity of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
4. The personality of God the Holy Spirit, and the
absolute necessity of His work in Regeneration and Sanctification,
and His Infilling of the Indwelt Believer for power to live
and witness Christ.
5. The Substitutionary Death of the Lord Jesus Christ
and His Resurrection as the only way of Salvation through
Faith.
6. God has appointed besides the Word and Prayer the
Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
(a) Baptism- The Free Presbyterian
Church of Ulster, under Christ the Great King and Head of
the Church, realize that bitter controversy raging around
the mode and proper subjects of the ordinance of Christian
has divided the Body of Christ when that Body should have
been united in Christian love and Holy Ghost power to stem
the onslaughts and hell-inspired assaults of modernism,
hereby affirms that each member of the Free Presbyterian
Church shall have liberty to decide for himself which course
to adopt on these controverted issues, each member giving
due honour in love to the views held by differing brethren,
but none espousing the error of baptismal regeneration.
(b) The Lord's Supper- The Lord's Supper
has been appointed by our Lord for the Remembrance of Him
in His work as Saviour. Its purpose to the child of
God is for strengthening, and putting of a visible difference
between the redeemed and unregenerate. This Sacrament
will be observed once each month in every Free Presbyterian
Congregation, or more frequently as each local congregation
shall decide.
7. The visible and personal return of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
8. These Articles, together with the Larger Catechism,
the Shorter
Catechism, and the Westminster Confession
of Faith,
form the Subordinate Standards of the Free Presbyterian
Church.
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