Relation of Gershom Brigham, Jr., April 19, 17851

I belive theire is one God and that he is Possest of Every amible Atribute and perfection, and that the Godhead Consists of three persons the Father Son and Holy gost, and that the three persons in the adorible Trinity are Coequal, Coessential, and Coeternal. I Believe that in God in the Riches of his Goodness for the Glory of his holiness, made the world and all things therein, and that he made man and indowed him with an immortal Soul, Capable of Honouring Serving and obeying his Creator and of being happy in the Enjoyments of him forever, had he not Rebelled against his Creator and awfully fell from that State of Rectitude in which he was Created. O prefidous [lys?] Turned Trator to the King of heaven, and thereby became an [Aleian?] to God and all good and prone to all Evil. I Believe that God willing to make his Boundless mercy known and to bring about that glorious plan which he had Laid before the foundation of the world promised that his onely Son, Should become an infant of Days, Take our Natures upon him, and Suffer and die in our Room that we through him might be happy and purchase that Crown which is Reserved in heaven for all his true Discaples. I Believe he who thought it no Robbery to be Equal with God Consented to take our Natures upon him to be made Like unto us in all things, Sin onely Excepted, to bare the punishment that was Due to us for Sin and indure his Fathers wrath, and Suffer and die that we might Live and that he Desended and Vaild his Divinity with humanity, Sufferd the Rigor of the Law and thereby paid Down a Compleat price for the Redemtion of all the Souls that the Father had given him and that by his Blood there is forgiveness of Sins and Redemtion from wrath to Come. I Believe that Faith and Repentance are the Conditon on which Salvation is to be obtaind by Christ and that it is not of our Selves, but it is the gift of god. I therefore believe it to be the incombant Duty of those who hope for a Shaire in Christs Death and Sufferings to obey this his Dying Command. I having Taken it into Consideration think it to be my Duty to attend upon this ordinance of Christs. I am Sorry that I have So Long Refrained to Comply with my Duty, and So plain a Command and that I am So Unworthy to attend upon So Solum an ordinance yet I would present my Self to your holy Communion Beging your forgivness in what Ever Either of you have Seen a miss in me also beging your prayers for me that God would Cleanse me from all Sin by the blood of Christ and make me a worthy Commuicant.

Gershom Brigham Juner