Second London Baptist Confession on Spiritual warfare
Through the usual means of the Christian life: Scripture, prayer, faith and watchfulness, including asking God to deliver the afflicted
"And though they may through the temptation of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of means of their preservation fall into grievous sins, and for a time continue therein"
THE POSITION
Satan's temptations are real: through them believers may for a time lose the sense of God's love, or fall into grievous sins, yet they are kept by God's power and renew their repentance. The text names the neglect of the means of preservation as part of how believers fall, but it does not develop the means, and the confession itself does not expound the Lord's Prayer. Keach's Catechism (1693), from the same circle, was not read.
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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 Spiritual warfare", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/lbc1689/spiritual-warfare (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/lbc1689/spiritual-warfare).