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The
Absolute Authority and Divine Verbal Inspiration of the Old
and New Testaments as the Word of God.
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There
is but one living and true God, and in the Godhead, there
are three Persons, equal in power and glory, God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
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The
Eternal Sonship, Virgin Birth, and Deity of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.
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The
personality of God the Holy Spirit, and the absolute
necessity of His work in Regeneration and Sanctification,
and His Infilling of the Indwelt Believer for power to live
and witness for Christ.
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The
Substitutionary Death of the Lord Jesus Christ and His
Resurrection as the only way of Salvation through Faith.
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God
has appointed besides the Word and Prayer the Sacraments of
Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
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Baptism
-- The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, under Christ the
Great King and Head of the Church, Realizing that bitter
controversy raging around the mode and proper subjects of
the ordinance of Christian baptism has divided the Body of
Christ when that Body should have been united in Christian
love and Holy Ghost power to stem the onslaughts and
hell-inspired assaults of modernism, hereby affirms that
each member of the Free Presbyterian Church shall have
liberty to decide for himself which course to adopt on these
controverted issues, each member giving due honor in love to
the views held by differing brethren, but none espousing the
error of baptismal regeneration.
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The
Lord's Supper -- The Lord's Supper has been appointed by our
Lord for Remembrance of Him in His work as Saviour. Its
purpose to the child of God is for strengthening, and
putting a visible difference between the redeemed and the
unregenerate. This Sacrament will be observed once each
month in every Free Presbyterian Congregation, or more
frequently as each local congregation shall decide.
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The
visible and personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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These
Articles, together with the Larger
Catechism, the Shorter
Catechism, and The
Westminster Confession of Faith, form the Subordinate
Standards of the Free Presbyterian Church.
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