I have come to view this statement of faith as the most doctrinally pure of the Reformed confessions. Most modern confessions and statements of faith are purposefully ambiguous and imprecise in order to be inclusive to a wide variety of theological convictions. This one is not. Extensive with Scripture proofs provided in full (so you don't have to look them all up) and linked (so you can read them in context), the 1689 LBCF presents a concise systematic theology of Scriptural revelation.

The system knicknamed "Calvinism" has never been overturned because it is the true exposition of Scripture. This is the original summarization of the Biblical doctrines of grace from which we get the famous TULIP acronym (Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistable grace, Perseverance of the saints.)

Mama used to say "as the church gets worldly the world gets churchy". The Five Solas of the 16th century Reformation were what originally defined evangelicalism. This modern statement is a call to repentance and reform in the modern church and a return to the Biblical standards of worship that were re-discovered in the Protestant Reformation and have since been quenched by humanism, modernism, post-modernism, pragmatism and heresy.

It is not normative among Christians to include the sequence of salvation among their confessional beliefs, but as I most strongly hold this to be the Biblical order, and since it is so oft distorted, confused, and attacked today I include this as where I stand, my conscience captive to Scripture.