A FUNDAMENTAL

CLEAR CONFESSION

OF THE

POOR AND DISTRESSED CHRISTIANS

CONCERNING

JUSTIFICATION, THE PREACHERS, BAPTISM, THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND

THE SWEARING OF OATHS; ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH WE ARE

SO MUCH HATED, SLANDERED, AND BELIED, FOUNDED

UPON THE WORD OF GOD.

BY

MENNO SIMON.

A. D., 1552.

"Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven," Matt. 10:32, 33.

"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ," 1 Cor. 8:11.

ELKHART, INDIANA:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN F. FUNK. AND BROTHER.

1871. 257A TRUE knowledge of the divine word, a fruitful faith in Christ Jesus, unfeigned love, and a pious, penitent, unblamable life I sincerely wish to all those who shall see, read or hear this our confession, of God our heavenly Father through Christ Jesus our Lord, who has loved us and cleansed us of our sins with his blood. To him be the honor, praise, kingdom, power and glory, forever and ever, Amen.

Christ says, "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it," Matt. 7:24‑27.

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