Westminster Confession

Confession Chapter 33: Of the Last Judgment

August 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. God hath appointed a day, wherein he will judge the world, in righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father. In which day, not only the apostate angels shall be judged, but likewise all persons that have lived upon earth shall appear before the tribunal of Christ, [...]

Confession Chapter 32: Of the State of Men After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead

August 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption: but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them: the souls of the righteous, being then made perfect in holiness, are received into the highest heavens, where they behold the face of [...]

Confession Chapter 31: Of Synods and Councils

August 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. For the better government, and further edification of the church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils: and it belongeth to the overseers and other rulers of the particular churches, by virtue of their office, and the power which Christ hath given them for edification and not for [...]

Confession Chapter 30: Of Church Censures

August 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.
2. To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed; by virtue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that kingdom [...]

Confession Chapter 29: Of the Lord’s Supper

July 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood, called the Lord’s Supper, to be observed in his church, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in his death; the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers, [...]

Confession Chapter 28: Of Baptism

July 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Baptism is a sacrament of the new testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church; but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of [...]

Confession Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments

July 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ, and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him: as also, to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world; and solemnly to engage them to [...]

Confession Chapter 26: Of the Communion of the Saints

July 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by his Spirit, and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory: and, being united to one another in love, they have communion in each other’s gifts and graces, and are obliged to the performance of such duties, [...]

Confession Chapter 25: Of the Church

July 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. The catholic or universal church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.
2. The visible church, which is also catholic or [...]

Confession Chapter 24: Of Marriage and Divorce

June 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband, at the same time.
2. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, for the increase of mankind with [...]