“The scriptures of the Old and New Testament, containing a well-attested revelation from God, my Maker and my Sovereign, I therefore look upon and receive as the only rule of my faith and practice. This divine book, this heavenly volume, I accept with humility and gratitude from the hand of my adored Creator, as a gift of inestimable value; and, considering it as the grand charter of my eternal salvation, I cannot but esteem it as my indispensable duty implicitly to submit to its sacred dictates, in every affair of religious concernment. And it is because I am fully persuaded that the following doctrines are contained in those oracles of eternal truth, that I embrace them—as my articles of faith—as the foundation of my hope—and as the source of all my spiritual joy.”
From “Confession of Faith” in The Works of Abraham Booth: Late Pastor of the Baptist Church assembling in Little Prescott Street, London, Volume I, Abraham Booth (1734-1806), London: J. Haddon, 1813, pp. xxx-xxxi. “A Confession of Faith, Delivered by Mr. Abraham Booth at his ordination over the church of Christ in Little Prescot Street, Goodmans Fields, February 16, 1769.”
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