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The Dordrecht
Confession of Faith, 1632
III. Of the Restoration of Man Through
the Promise of the Coming Christ
Concerning the restoration of
the first man and his posterity we confess and believe, that
God, notwithstanding their fall, transgression, and sin, and
their utter inability, was nevertheless not willing to cast them
off entirely, or to let them be forever lost; but that He called
them again to Him, comforted them, and showed them that with
Him there was yet a means for their reconciliation, namely, the
immaculate Lamb, the Son of God, who had been foreordained thereto
before the foundation of the world, and was promised them while
they were yet in Paradise, for consolation, redemption, and salvation,
for themselves as well as for their posterity; yea, who through
faith, had, from that time on, been given them as their own;
for whom all the pious patriarchs, unto whom this promise was
frequently renewed, longed and inquired, and to whom, through
faith, they looked forward from afar, waiting for the fulfillment,
that He by His coming, would redeem, liberate, and raise the
fallen race of man from their sin, guilt; and unrighteousness.
John 1:29; I Pet. 1:19; Gen. 3:15; I John 3:8; 2:1; Heb. 11:13,
39; Gal. 4:4.
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