The Orthodox Creed, 1679 - Baptist Theology

THOMAS MONCK ET AL154continue to the end of the World. 219 For as the Church of the Jews intheir Gospel Types had a Priest, and an Altar, and a Lamb, and a Fire, andwithout all these no Sacrifice could, or was accepted of God, then nor now,without Faith in the Antitype Christ, whose Humane Nature is the trueLamb, the Union of Natures, the High Priest, the Divine Nature, the Altar,and the Holy Ghost, the Heavenly Fire. 220 And again, the Blood shed uponthe Brazen Altar, may be applied to our Justification, and the sprinklingof it upon the Incense Altar, may be applied to the Work of Sanctificationby Christ’s 221 Spirit, sprinkling his Blood upon us. 222 And the Blood thatwas carried within the Vail, into the most Holy Place, is applied to ourGlorification in Heaven. 223 And as they had in their Church the Ark, afigure of Christ’s Presence; so have we the Promise of his Presence to theend of the World. 224 And as they had the Tables of the Old Covenant, orLaw, in the Ark; so have we the Law fulfilled by Christ; 225 and meetingGod in Christ, it’s handed forth by Christ now to us, 226 as the only ruleof our Sanctification, and Obedience, through his Grace. And as they hadthe Manna to nourish them in the Wilderness to Canaan; so have we theSacraments to nourish us in the Church, and in our Wilderness-condition,till we come to Heaven. And as they had the Rod that Corrected them;so have we the Church-Censures now to Correct us, 227 when we offendhis Law. And their Burnt-offering may be applied to Christ, killing ofOriginal Sin in us, and their Sin-offering may be applied to Christ killing,or taking away our Actual Sins; and their Peace-offering may be appliedto our Reconciliation with God in Christ by his Spirit; and so all the restof those Gospel-Antitypes may be applied. And thus the Old and NewTestaments, like the Faces of the Cherubims, look one toward another, andhold forth the self-same Gospel-Salvation to them and us.XX. Article.Of Free-will in Man.God hath indued the Will of Man with that natural liberty and power,of acting upon Choice, that it is neither forced, nor by any necessity of Na-219Heb. 9, 10 & 11. Chapters.220Heb. 9.14.221Eph. 5.2.222I Pet. 1.2.223Heb. 9.7, 8, 9, 12, 24.224Mat. 18.20. & 28.19, 20.225Rom. 3.31 & 8.3, 4. & 10.4.226I John 2.6, 7, 8.227I Cor. 4.19, 20, 21.