Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith
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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…
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The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, 1 wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his posterity, 2 upon condition of perfect and personal obedience. 3
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Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, 1 commonly called the covenant of grace: wherein he freely offered unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him that they may be saved…
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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 testator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it, therein bequeathed. 1
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This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law and in the time of the gospel: 1 under the law it was administered by promises, prophecies, sacrifices, circumcision, the paschal lamb, and other types and ordinances delivered to the people of the Jews, all fore-s…
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Under the gospel, when Christ the substance 1 was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper; 2 which, though fewer in number, and administered with more sim…
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