Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
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Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, 1 immediately instituted by God, 2 to represent Christ and his benefits, and to confirm our interest in him: 3 as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the Church and the rest of the world; 4…
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There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified; whence it comes to pass that the names and the effects of the one are attributed to the other. 1
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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 sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that doth administer it, 1 but upon the work of the Spirit, 2 and the word of institution,…
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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 may be dispensed by any but by a minister of the Word lawfully ordained. 1
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The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard of the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for substance, the same with those of the New. 1
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