ART. 8. Mankind, in their natural state, universally reject the offers of salvation, performing nothing acceptable to God, until renewed by the special influences of the Holy Spirit, and therefore, in order to salvation, must be born again.

ART. 9. God has, in the covenant of redemption, given to Christ a part of mankind, who were from all eternity predestinated to be holy, and to be heirs of eternal glory, and by the agency of the Holy Spirit, renews them after his own moral image, and causes them to persevere in holy obedience unto the end.

ART. 10. The Lord Jesus Christ arose from the dead on the third day, and ever liveth to make intercession for his people, governing all things for their good; and, by virtue of his atonement, as the only meritorious cause, procures their justification, adoption, and final salvation.

ART. 11. A church is a congregation of Christians, professing faith in Christ and obedience to him, and joined in covenant for ordinary communion in the ordinances of the gospel; invested with power to choose its own officers, to admit members, and to exercise government and discipline according to the rules of the gospel.

ART. 12. Christ has appointed two sacraments to be observed in the church-baptism and the Lord's Supper; the latter to be administered to professed believers in Christ who give credible evidence of piety, the former to them and their children.

ART. 13. The first day of the week is the Christian Sabbath, and is to be sanctified by a holy resting all the day, even from such worldly employments as are lawful on other days, and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in necessary works of mercy.

ART. 14. The souls of believers are, at their death, made per fectly holy, and immediately taken to glory. At the end of the world there will be a resurrection of the dead and a final judgment of all mankind, when the saints shall be publicly acquitted by Christ the Judge, and admitted to endless life and glory; and those who have continued in their sins shall be doomed to endless punishment.