TCR 2 - the faith of the New Christian Church

This number came up in an abbreviated form during the adult service in BA yesterday, and again in a talk from the recent camp at Jacob's Creek that I listened to this morning. It seems to be particularly well in tune with DP 172.

TCR 2
THE FAITH OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND OF THE NEW CHURCH
IN ITS UNIVERSAL FORM is as follows:

The Lord from eternity, who is Jehovah,
came into the world to subjugate the hells and to glorify His Human;
and without this no mortal could have been saved;
and those are saved who believe in Him.

This is called the faith in its universal form,
because this is the universal principle of faith;
and the universal principle of faith must be in each thing and in all things of it.
It is a universal principle of faith that God is one in essence and in person,
in whom is a Divine trinity,
and that He is the Lord God the Savior Jesus Christ.
It is a universal principle of faith
that no mortal could have been saved
unless the Lord had come into the world.
It is a universal principle of faith
that He came into the world to remove hell from man,
and that He did remove it by means of contests with it and victories over it,
and thereby He subdued it and reduced it to order
and made it obedient to Himself.
It is a universal principle of faith that He came into the world
to glorify His Human which He took on in the world,
that is, to unite it with the Divine from which [are all things],
and thereby He eternally holds hell in order and under obedience to Himself.
As this could be accomplished only by means of temptations
admitted into His Human, even to the last of them,
which was the passion of the cross, He endured even that.
These are the universal principles of faith relating to the Lord.

The universal principle of faith on man's part is
that he should believe in the Lord;
for by believing in Him
there is conjunction with Him and thereby salvation.
To believe in the Lord is to have confidence that He saves;
and as only those who live rightly can have this confidence,
this, too, is meant by believing in Him
And this the Lord teaches in John:

This is the Father's will,
that everyone that believes in the Son may have eternal life.
(John 6:40);

and again:
He that believes in the Son has eternal life;
but he that believes not in the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abides on him.
(John 3:36)