1689 Baptist Confession of Faith Chapter 9&10 Scripture List
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Chapter 9 - Free Will
Chapter 9 - Free Will
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but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished. So also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”
Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.
But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully matured, it brings forth death.
“I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your seed,
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“See, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”
Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, so she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
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a - without the spirit
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, worked out in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the Law sin is dead.
And you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
For we ourselves also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
But when the kindness and affection of God our Savior appeared,
He saved us, not by works which we did in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
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Who rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love,
“So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.
So now, no longer am I the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the working out of the good is not.
For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.
But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one working it out, but sin which dwells in me.
I find then the principle that in me evil is present—in me who wants to do good.
For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,
but I see a different law in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
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until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ,
Chapter 10 - Effectual Calling
Chapter 10 - Effectual Calling
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and those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified.
What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
for an administration of the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth in Him.
In Him, we also have been made an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
among whom we all also formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him,
so that you—the eyes of your heart having been enlightened—will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
“Moreover Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
“I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to do My judgments.
and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of the might of His strength,
Your people will offer themselves freely in the day of Your power;
In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn,
The dew of Your youthfulness will be Yours.
“Draw me after you and let us run together!
The king has brought me into his chambers.”
“We will rejoice in you and be glad;
We will extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.”
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who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
But a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of the might of His strength,
which He worked in Christ, by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
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Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
“That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.
“The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”
Spurgeon’s view - This raises an important question. What about persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word such as infants or mentally handicapped persons? Paragraph 3 addresses these cases.
The expression “elect infants” raises some questions. Are any or all infants elect? At what age is an infant no longer an infant? Considerable debate has surrounded these questions. The great Baptist preacher, C.H. Spurgeon, believed that all children dying in infancy were regenerated and saved. In his edition of the Second London Confession, the word “elect” doesn’t appear in paragraph 3. It simply reads, “Infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved.”
A passage that is often used to “prove” that infants dying in infancy are saved is 2 Samuel 12:23
Jim Domm, “Of Effectual Calling,” in A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, ed. Rob Ventura (Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2022), 188–189.
Mark 9–16: The MacArthur New Testament Commentary The Special Blessing (10:14)
The Lord’s statement is unqualified; there are no caveats, conditions, or restrictions attached to it. He did not apply it only to the children of faithful Jews, circumcised (or baptized) children, elect children, or only to those infants present on that particular occasion. Luke’s use of the Greek word toioutōn (“such as these”) instead of toutois (“these”) indicates that Jesus was referring to all those who are unable to believe savingly because they have not reached the point of personal accountability (Luke 18:16).
It is obvious that Jesus did not pronounce blessing on people outside His kingdom. All such people belong to Satan’s kingdom (John 8:44; Col. 1:13; 1 John 3:8) and are cursed. Babies, before they reach the age when they understand good and evil (which varies from child to child), are under God’s gracious, special care. If they die before that time, their souls will go to heaven; once past that point, God will hold them responsible if they fail to repent and believe the gospel.
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” And Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has taken away your sin; you shall not die.
“However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of Yahweh to blaspheme, the son also that is born to you shall surely die.”
And Nathan went to his house.
Then Yahweh smote the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, so that he was very sick.
David therefore sought God about the boy; and David fasted and went and spent the night lying on the ground.
And the elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.
Then it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was still alive, we spoke to him and he did not listen to our voice. How then can we tell him that the child has died? He might do himself harm!”
And David saw that his servants were whispering together, so David discerned that the child had died; so David said to his servants, “Has the child died?” And they said, “He has died.”
So David arose from the ground, washed, anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he came into the house of Yahweh and worshiped. Then he came to his own house, and he asked, and they set food before him, and he ate.
Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”
Then he said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows, Yahweh may be gracious to me, that the child may live.’
“But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
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“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
“It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.
And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.”
I John 12:24
As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
“And the one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;
yet he has no root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.
For in the case of those once having been enlightened and having tasted of the heavenly gift and having become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
and having tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”
“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
“And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.