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Second London Baptist Confession on the person of Christ

1689 · REFORMED BAPTIST · DOCUMENT, NOT A PERSON
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided

So that two whole, perfect, and distinct natures, were inseparably joined together in one Person: without conversion, composition, or confusion: which Person is very God, and very Man; yet one Christ, the only Mediator between God and Man.
2LBC 8.2 (1677/1689 printing, original spelling)

THE POSITION

Chapter 8.2 gives the Chalcedonian formula in confessional prose: two whole, perfect and distinct natures inseparably joined in one person, without conversion, composition or confusion. Paragraph 8.7 adds the communication of properties — what belongs to one nature is sometimes attributed in Scripture to the person named from the other.

SCRIPTURE
JOHN 1:14 · BSB

14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

12 OTHERS HOLD THIS

CalvinChalcedonJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithEphesusLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonJohn OwenR.C. SproulWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Word united to flesh, with the human soul underemphasizedATHANASIUS
Affirms both deity and humanity before the categories were fixedCHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

The confessional standard of the Particular Baptists, first printed 1677 and adopted by the London General Assembly of 1689. It takes over the Westminster Confession chapter by chapter and rewrites it at four points that matter: the covenant (ch. 7), the gospel and the extent of its grace (ch. 20, which Westminster has no counterpart to), the church (ch. 26), and baptism (ch. 29). This entry rests on the 1677/1689 printing with its own Scripture proofs, read against the Westminster text clause by clause.

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"Second London Baptist Confession on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/lbc1689/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/lbc1689/christology).

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