1689 London Baptist Confession
1. The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption;
but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately
return to God who gave them. The souls of the righteous being then made perfect in
holiness, are received into paradise, where they are with Christ, and behold the face of
God in light and glory, waiting for the full redemption of their bodies; and the souls of
the wicked are cast into hell; where they remain in torment and utter darkness, reserved
to the judgment of the great day; besides these two places, for souls separated from their
bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
( Genesis
3:19; Acts
13:36; Ecclesiastes
12:7; Luke
23:43; 2
Corinthians 5:1, 6,8; Philippians
1:23; Hebrews
12:23; Jude
6, 7; 1
Peter 3:19; Luke
16:23, 24 )
2. At the last day, such of the saints as are found alive, shall not sleep, but be
changed; and all the dead shall be raised up with the selfsame bodies, and none other;
although with different qualities, which shall be united again to their souls forever.
( 1
Corinthians 15:51, 52; 1
Thessalonians 4:17; Job
19:26, 27; 1
Corinthians 15:42, 43 )
3. The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonour; the
bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honour, and be made conformable to his own
glorious body.
( Acts
24:15; John
5:28, 29; Philippians
3:21 )
For further study:
"Baptist Roots in America: The Historical Background of Reformed Baptists in America", Samuel E. Waldron, Simpson Publishing Co. (1991)
"A Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith", Samuel E. Waldron, Evangelical Press, 1989
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