Second London Baptist Confession on Divine plurality & the unseen realm

Never posed as a question in these terms

THE POSITION

Never posed as a question in these terms. The confession's entire vocabulary for created spiritual beings is "Angels" and "Apostate Angels": angels are objects of the decree alongside men (3.3), are creatures who owe worship to God rather than receiving it (22.2), and are judged at the last day (32.1). The elohim of the Hebrew Bible, the divine council and territorial rule are not discussed, denied, or alluded to. What was checked is all thirty-two chapters, read for this question, and the Scripture proofs attached to chapters 2, 3 and 32; Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 appear among none of them. The tier is contested rather than researched because no quotation can establish an absence — the cite below shows the category the confession does use, not a ruling on the one this locus asks about.

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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.