Excerpt from The Baptist Confession of Faith: First Put Forth in 1643; Afterwards Enlarged, Corrected and Published by an Assembly of Delegates (From the Churches in Great Britain) Met in London July 3, 1689; Adopted by the Association at Philadelphia September 22, 1742 The books commonly called lponyphn, not being of (f) divine inlpiration, are no part ofthe canon (or rule) ofthe Scripture. And therefore are of no authority to the church of God, nor to be any otherwife approved, or made ufe of than other human writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.