Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
8 paragraphs
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 therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served with all the heart, and with all the soul, and with all the might. 1 B…
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Religious worship is to be given to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and to him alone: 1 not to angels, saints, or any other creature: 2 and since the fall, not without a Mediator; nor in the mediation of any other but of Christ alone. 3
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Prayer with thanksgiving, being one special part of religious worship, 1 is by God required of all men; 2 and that it may be accepted, it is to be made in the name of the Son, 3 by the help of his Spirit, 4 according to his will, 5 with understanding, reverence, humility, fervenc…
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Prayer is to be made for things lawful, 1 and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; 2 but not for the dead, 3 nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death. 4
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The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear; 1 the sound preaching; 2 and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience unto God with understanding, faith, and reverence; 3 singing of psalms with grace in the heart; 4 as, also, the due administration and worthy receiving of th…
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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 which it is performed, or towards which it is directed: 1 but God is to be worshipped everywhere 2 in spirit and truth; 3 as in private fam…
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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, moral, and perpetual commandment, binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven for a Sabbath, to be kept h…
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This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts, about their worldly employments and recreations;…
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