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The Dordrecht
Confession of Faith, 1632
Article I. Of God and the Creation of All
Things
Since we find it testified that
without faith it is impossible to please God, and that he that
would come to God must believe that there is a God, and that
He is a rewarder of them that seek Him; therefore, we confess
with the mouth, and believe with the heart, with all the pious,
according to the holy Scriptures, in one eternal, almighty, and
incomprehensible God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and in
none more, nor in any other; before whom no God was made or existed,
nor shall there be any after Him: for of Him, and through Him,
and in Him, are all things; to Him be praise and honor forever
and ever, Amen. Heb. 11:6; Deut. 6:4; Gen. 17:1; Isa. 46:8; I
John 5:7; Rom. 11:36.
Of this same one God, who worketh
all in all, we believe and confess that He is the Creator of
all things visible and invisible; that He, in six days, created,
made, and prepared, heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that
in them is; and that He still governs and upholds the same and
all His works through His wisdom, might, and the word of His
power. I Cor. 12:6; Gen. I; Acts 14:15.
And when He had finished His
works, and had ordained and prepared them, each in its nature
and properties, good and upright, according to His pleasure,
He created the first man, the father of us Ml, Adam; whom He
formed of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, so that he became a living soul, created
by God in His own image and likeness, in righteousness and holiness,
unto eternal life. He regarded him above all other creatures,
endowed him with many high and glorious gifts, placed him in
the pleasure garden or Paradise, and gave him a command and prohibition;
afterwards He took a rib from Adam, made a woman therefrom, and
brought her to him, joining and giving her to him for a helpmate,
companion, and wife; and in consequence of this He also caused,
that from this one man Adam, all men that dwell upon the whole
earth have descended. Gen. 1:27; 2:7, 17, 18, 22.
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