VI.—Of Saving Grace.

We believe and proclaim that God, who is rich in mercy as well as of perfect justice, out of His great love to man was pleased to hold forth from the first a promise of redemption, which from age to age He confirmed and unfolded; and that, in the fulness of the time. He accomplished His gracious purpose by sending His son to be the Saviour of the world; wherefore our salvation out of sin and misery is ever to be ascribed to free and sovereign