1. Of the Holy Scripture
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Section 1.1 · Section
Although the light of nature, and the works of creation and providence, do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to lea...
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Section 1.2 · Section
Under the name of holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testaments, which are these...
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Section 1.3 · Section
The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the Canon of the Scripture; and therefore are of no aut...
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Section 1.4 · Section
The authority of the holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church, bu...
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Section 1.5 · Section
We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem of the holy Scripture; and the heavenliness of the...
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Section 1.6 · Section
The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down...
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Section 1.7 · Section
All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, belie...
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Section 1.8 · Section
The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time o...
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Section 1.9 · Section
The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full...
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Section 1.10 · Section
The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, do...
2. Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
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Section 2.1 · Section
There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or p...
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Section 2.2 · Section
God hath all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of himself; and is alone in and unto himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of...
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Section 2.3 · Section
In the unity of the Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Gho...
3. Of God's Eternal Decree
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Section 3.1 · Section
God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet s...
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Section 3.2 · Section
Although God knows whatsoever may or can come to pass upon all supposed conditions, yet hath he not decreed anything because he foresaw it a...
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Section 3.3 · Section
By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others fore-ordai...
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Section 3.4 · Section
These angels and men, thus predestinated and fore-ordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and d...
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Section 3.5 · Section
Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according to his eternal and immutable...
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Section 3.6 · Section
As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath he, by the eternal and most free purpose of his will, fore-ordained all the means thereu...
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Section 3.7 · Section
The rest of mankind God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he...
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Section 3.8 · Section
The doctrine of this high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending the will of God reve...
4. Of Creation
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Section 4.1 · Section
It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness, in the beginn...
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Section 4.2 · Section
After God had made all other creatures, he created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, endued with knowledge, righteou...
5. Of Providence
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Section 5.1 · Section
God, the great Creator of all things, doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to...
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Section 5.2 · Section
Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things come to pass immutably and infallibly, yet by the s...
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Section 5.3 · Section
God, in his ordinary providence, maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them, at his pleasure.
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Section 5.4 · Section
The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his providence that it extendeth itself...
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Section 5.5 · Section
The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave for a season his own children to manifold temptations and the corruption of...
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Section 5.6 · Section
As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden, from them he not only withholdet...
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Section 5.7 · Section
As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures, so, after a most special manner, it taketh care of his Church, and dispos...
6. Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
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Section 6.1 · Section
Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptation of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleas...
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Section 6.2 · Section
By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the fac...
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Section 6.3 · Section
They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their...
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Section 6.4 · Section
From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil,...
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Section 6.5 · Section
This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and morti...
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Section 6.6 · Section
Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bri...
7. Of God's Covenant with Man
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Section 7.1 · Section
The distance between God and the creature is so great that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet the...
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Section 7.2 · Section
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, upon condition of...
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Section 7.3 · Section
Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant...
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Section 7.4 · Section
This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in the Scripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ the te...
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Section 7.5 · Section
This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law and in the time of the gospel: under the law it was administered by promis...
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Section 7.6 · Section
Under the gospel, when Christ the substance was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the Word...
8. Of Christ the Mediator
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Section 8.1 · Section
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,...
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Section 8.2 · Section
The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, did, when the ful...
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Section 8.3 · Section
The Lord Jesus, in his human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the Holy Spirit above measure; having in him...
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Section 8.4 · Section
This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake, which, that he might discharge, he was made under the law, and did perfectly fulfil...
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Section 8.5 · Section
The Lord Jesus, by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of himself, which he through the eternal Spirit once offered up unto God, hath fully...
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Section 8.6 · Section
Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after his incarnation, yet the virtue, efficacy, and benefits thereo...
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Section 8.7 · Section
Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures; by each nature doing that which is proper to itself; yet, by reason of t...
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Section 8.8 · Section
To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption he doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the same; making intercession...
9. Of Free Will
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Section 9.1 · Section
God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced nor by any absolute necessity of nature determined to good...
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Section 9.2 · Section
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which is good and well-pleasing to God, but yet mutably, so tha...
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Section 9.3 · Section
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man...
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Section 9.4 · Section
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, he freeth him from his natural bondage under sin, and by his grace a...
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Section 9.5 · Section
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to good alone, in the state of glory only.
10. Of Effectual Calling
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Section 10.1 · Section
All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, he is pleased, in his appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by...
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Section 10.2 · Section
This effectual call is of God's free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in man; who is altogether passive therein, u...
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Section 10.3 · Section
Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how he pleaseth. S...
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Section 10.4 · Section
Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they ne...
11. Of Justification
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Section 11.1 · Section
Those whom God effectually calleth he also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by a...
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Section 11.2 · Section
Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is it not alone in the pers...
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Section 11.3 · Section
Christ, by his obedience and death, did fully discharge the debt of all those that are thus justified, and did make a proper, real, and full...
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Section 11.4 · Section
God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fulness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for...
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Section 11.5 · Section
God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified; and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet the...
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Section 11.6 · Section
The justification of believers under the Old Testament was, in all these respects, one and the same with the justification of believers unde...
12. Of Adoption
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Section 12.1 · Section
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 the...
13. Of Sanctification
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Section 13.1 · Section
They who are effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in them, are further sanctified, really and per...
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Section 13.2 · Section
This sanctification is throughout in the whole man, yet imperfect in this life; there abideth still some remnants of corruption in every par...
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Section 13.3 · Section
In which war, although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail, yet, through the continual supply of strength from the sanctify...
14. Of Saving Faith
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Section 14.1 · Section
The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hear...
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Section 14.2 · Section
By this faith a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority of God himself speaking therein; and ac...
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Section 14.3 · Section
This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong; may be often and many ways assailed and weakened, but gets the victory; growing up in ma...
15. Of Repentance unto Life
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Section 15.1 · Section
Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the gospel, as well as that of fai...
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Section 15.2 · Section
By it a sinner, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, as contrary to th...
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Section 15.3 · Section
Although repentance be not to be rested in as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God's free g...
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Section 15.4 · Section
As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation, so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent.
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Section 15.5 · Section
Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man's duty to endeavor to repent of his particular sins parti...
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Section 15.6 · Section
As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon thereof, upon which, and the forsaking of them,...
16. Of Good Works
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Section 16.1 · Section
Good works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men out of bli...
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Section 16.2 · Section
These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith; and by them believers ma...
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Section 16.3 · Section
Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And that they may be enabled thereunto, be...
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Section 16.4 · Section
They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate and to...
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Section 16.5 · Section
We cannot, by our best works, merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between...
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Section 16.6 · Section
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, not as though they w...
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Section 16.7 · Section
Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves an...
17. Of the Perseverance of the Saints
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Section 17.1 · Section
They whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally nor finally fall away from...
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Section 17.2 · Section
This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the...
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Section 17.3 · Section
Nevertheless they may, through the temptations of Satan and of the world, the prevalency of corruption remaining in them, and the neglect of...
18. Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
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Section 18.1 · Section
Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favour...
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Section 18.2 · Section
This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith, found...
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Section 18.3 · Section
This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficu...
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Section 18.4 · Section
True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of...
19. Of the Law of God
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Section 19.1 · Section
God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedie...
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Section 19.2 · Section
This law, after his fall, continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness; and, as such, was delivered by God upon mount Sinai in ten comman...
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Section 19.3 · Section
Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a Church under age, ceremonial laws, containing...
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Section 19.4 · Section
To them also, as a body politic, he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the State of that people, not obliging any other,...
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Section 19.5 · Section
The moral law doth forever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; and that not only in regard of the matte...
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Section 19.6 · Section
Although true believers be not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned; yet is it of great use to them, a...
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Section 19.7 · Section
Neither are the forementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the gospel, but do sweetly comply with it: the Spirit of Christ subdu...
20. Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
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Section 20.1 · Section
The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath...
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Section 20.2 · Section
God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in anything contrary to his...
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Section 20.3 · Section
They who, upon pretense of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy the end of Christian liberty; whi...
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Section 20.4 · Section
And because the power which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually...
21. Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day
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Section 21.1 · Section
The light of nature showeth that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all; is good, and doeth good unto all; and is theref...
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Section 21.2 · Section
Religious worship is to be given to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and to him alone: not to angels, saints, or any other creature: an...
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Section 21.3 · Section
Prayer with thanksgiving, being one special part of religious worship, is by God required of all men; and that it may be accepted, it is to...
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Section 21.4 · Section
Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; but not for the dead, nor for those o...
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Section 21.5 · Section
The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear; the sound preaching; and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience unto God with underst...
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Section 21.6 · Section
Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now, under the gospel, either tied unto, or made more acceptable by any place in...
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Section 21.7 · Section
As it is of the law of nature that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive...
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Section 21.8 · Section
This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforeha...
22. Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
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Section 22.1 · Section
A lawful oath is a part of religious worship, wherein, upon just occasion, the person swearing solemnly calleth God to witness what he asser...
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Section 22.2 · Section
The name of God only is that by which men ought to swear, and therein it is to be used with all holy fear and reverence; therefore to swear...
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Section 22.3 · Section
Whosoever taketh an oath ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act, and therein to avouch nothing but what he is fully pers...
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Section 22.4 · Section
An oath is to be taken in the plain and common sense of the words, without equivocation or mental reservation. It cannot oblige to sin; but...
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Section 22.5 · Section
A vow is of the like nature with a promissory oath, and ought to be made with the like religious care, and to be performed with the like fai...
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Section 22.6 · Section
It is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone: and that it may be accepted, it is to be made voluntarily, out of faith and conscien...
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Section 22.7 · Section
No man may vow to do anything forbidden in the Word of God, or what would hinder any duty therein commanded, or which is not in his own powe...
23. Of the Civil Magistrate
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Section 23.1 · Section
God, the Supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him, over the people, for his own glory and the...
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Section 23.2 · Section
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate when called thereunto; in the managing whereof, as they ought e...
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Section 23.3 · Section
The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of hea...
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Section 23.4 · Section
It is the duty of people to pray for magistrates, to honor their persons, to pay them tribute and other dues, to obey their lawful commands,...
24. Of Marriage and Divorce
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Section 24.1 · Section
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...
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Section 24.2 · Section
Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife; for the increase of mankind with a legitimate issue, and of the Church with a...
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Section 24.3 · Section
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry who are able with judgment to give their consent. Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry on...
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Section 24.4 · Section
Marriage ought not to be within the degrees of consanguinity or affinity forbidden in the Word; nor can such incestuous marriages ever be ma...
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Section 24.5 · Section
Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve...
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Section 24.6 · Section
Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage;...
25. Of the Church
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Section 25.1 · Section
The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered i...
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Section 25.2 · Section
The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel (not confined to one nation as before under the law) consists of al...
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Section 25.3 · Section
Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the sa...
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Section 25.4 · Section
This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...
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Section 25.5 · Section
The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become no churches of Christ, but...
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Section 25.6 · Section
There is no other Head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichri...
26. Of the Communion of Saints
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Section 26.1 · Section
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...
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Section 26.2 · Section
Saints, by profession, are bound to maintain an holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God, and in performing such other spiritual...
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Section 26.3 · Section
This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them in any wise partakers of the substance of his Godhead, or to be equal w...
27. Of the Sacraments
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Section 27.1 · Section
Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ and his benefits, and to co...
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Section 27.2 · Section
There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass tha...
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Section 27.3 · Section
The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments, rightly used, is not conferred by any power in them; neither doth the efficacy of a sa...
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Section 27.4 · Section
There be only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the Gospel, that is to say, Baptism and the Supper of the Lord: neither of which...
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Section 27.5 · Section
The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same with t...
28. Of Baptism
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Section 28.1 · Section
Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visi...
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Section 28.2 · Section
The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son,...
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Section 28.3 · Section
Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person.
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Section 28.4 · Section
Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or both believing parents are to be...
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Section 28.5 · Section
Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it, as that no...
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Section 28.6 · Section
The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordina...
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Section 28.7 · Section
The sacrament of baptism is but once to be administered to any person.
29. Of the Lord's Supper
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Section 29.1 · Section
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 observ...
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Section 29.2 · Section
In this sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sins of the quick or dead, but...
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Section 29.3 · Section
The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution to the people, to pray, and bless the ele...
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Section 29.4 · Section
Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone; as likewise the denial of the cup to the people; worshipping t...
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Section 29.5 · Section
The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to him crucified, as that truly, y...
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Section 29.6 · Section
That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called tr...
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Section 29.7 · Section
Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not...
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Section 29.8 · Section
Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament, yet they receive not the thing signified thereby; but by th...
30. Of Church Censures
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Section 30.1 · Section
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...
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Section 30.2 · Section
To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed, by virtue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins,...
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Section 30.3 · Section
Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren; for deterring of others from the like offenses; for purg...
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Section 30.4 · Section
For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition, suspension from the Sacrament of the Lord's...
31. Of Synods and Councils
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Section 31.1 · Section
For the better government and further edification of the Church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called synods or councils...
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Section 31.2 · Section
As magistrates may lawfully call a synod of ministers and other fit persons to consult and advise with about matters of religion; so, if mag...
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Section 31.3 · Section
It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially, to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and dire...
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Section 31.4 · Section
All synods or councils since the apostles' times, whether general or particular, may err, and many have erred; therefore they are not to be...
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Section 31.5 · Section
Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs which...
32. Of the State of Men After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead
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Section 32.1 · Section
The bodies of men, after death, return to dust, and see corruption; but their souls (which neither die nor sleep), having an immortal subsis...
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Section 32.2 · Section
At the last day, such as are found alive shall not die, but be changed; and all the dead shall be raised up with the self-same bodies, and n...
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Section 32.3 · Section
The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonor; the bodies of the just, by his Spirit, unto honor, and be mad...
33. Of the Last Judgment
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Section 33.1 · Section
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 Fa...
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Section 33.2 · Section
The end of God's appointing this day, is for the manifestation of the glory of his mercy in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of his j...
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Section 33.3 · Section
As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin, and for the greater...