IV. Immersion is obeying the gospel; it alone is the act of turning to God.
V. Repentance, pardon, justification, sanctification, reconciliation, adoption, salvation, a good conscience, a pure heart, love to God, saving faith, acceptable prayer, the reception of the Holy Spirit, and the intercession of Christ for us, all depend upon immersion.
VI. Immersion is the converting act, and is the most important of all the commandments.
VII. The water is the mother of all Christians.
VIII. We further believe that the Apostles set up the kingdom of Christ on the Day of Pentecost.
IX. That the gospel was first preached by Peter, that the first Christian baptism was administered, and that the reign of grace began on the Day of Pentecost.
X. That the kingdom of Christ has apostatized and become totally corrupt.
XI. That the meaning of the Christian institutions was lost in the Dark Ages, and that no one pleaded the true cause of Christ from the great apostasy until Mr. Campbell’s day.
XII. That the true foundation of the millennial church was lost, and that it was laid again in the present century.