Westminster Confession

Confession Chapter 13: Of Sanctification

April 9, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. They, who are once effectually called, and regenerated, having a new heart, and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and personally, through the virtue of Christ’s death and resurrection, by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them: the dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed, and the several [...]

Confession Chapter 12: Of Adoption

April 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have his name put upon them, receive the Spirit of adoption, have [...]

Confession Chapter 11: Of Justification

March 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christ’s sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or [...]

Confession Chapter 10: Of Effectual Calling

March 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by his Word and Spirit, out of that state of sin and death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation, by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and [...]

Confession Chapter 9: Of Free Will

March 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that it is neither forced, nor, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good, or evil.
2. Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom, and power to will and to do that which was good and well pleasing to God; but yet, [...]

Confession Chapter 8: Of Christ the Mediator

March 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. It pleased God, in his eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, his only begotten Son, to be the Mediator between God and man, the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Savior of his church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world: unto whom he did from all [...]

Confession Chapter 7: Of God’s Covenant with Man

February 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of [...]

Confession Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof

February 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned, in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin, God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
2. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with [...]

Confession Chapter 5: Of Providence

February 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of his own will, to the praise of the glory of [...]

Confession Chapter 4: Of Creation

February 6, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

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1. It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness, in the beginning, to create, or make of nothing, the world, and all things therein whether visible or invisible, in the space of six days; and all very good.