Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830, Symonds Rider Copy [D&C 20]
Source Note
“Articles and Covenants,” [, Seneca Co., NY, ca. Apr. 1830, though parts may have been received as early as ca. summer 1829]. Version copied [May 1831]; handwriting of ; six pages; Revelations Collection, CHL.
righteousness or to the heardness of heart and unbelief to their own condemnation for the Lord God hath Spoken it for we the Elders of the church have heard and bear witness to the words of his glorious majesty on high to whom be glory forever and ever Amen—
Wherefore by these things we know that there is a god in heaven who is infinite and eternal from ever lasting to ever lasting the same unchangeable God the maker of Heaven and Earth and all things that in them is and that he created man male and female and after his own image and in his likeness created he them and that he gave unto the children of man a commandment that they should love and serve him the only being whom they Should worship <[illegible]> <but> by the transgression of these holy laws man became Sensual and devilish and became fallen men wherefore the Almighty God gave his only begotten Son as it is written in the scriptures which have been given of him that he suffered temptation but gave no heed to them that he was crusified died and rose again the the on third day and that he ascended into Heaven to sit down on the right hand of the Father to reign with Almighty Power according to the will of the Father therefore as many as would believe and were baptized in his holy name and endured in faith to the end Should be Saved yea even as many as were before he came in the flesh from the beginning which believed in the words of the holy prophets which were inspired by the gift of the holy Ghost which truly testified of him in all things as well as they which should come after which should believe in the gifts and callings of God by the holy Ghost which beareth record of the Father and of the Son which Father and Son and holy Ghost is one God infinite and eternal without end Amen)——
And we know all men must repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ and worship the Father in his name and endure in faith on his name to the end or they cannot be Saved in the Kingdom of God and we know that justification through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is just and true and we also know that Sanctification through the grace of our Lord [p. [2]]