A34242:1008
The Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechism
The confession of faith ; and, The larger and shorter catechism first agreed upon by the Westminster Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and now approved by the General Assembly of the kirk of Scotland to be a part of uniformity in religion between the kirks of Christ in the three kingdoms.
Edinbourg: printed by George Swinton and Thomas Brown, 1671
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Giveth commandment to believers, justified by faith, to give evidence of the grace ⟨image 121⟩of God in them, before men, by doing good works. Let your light so shine before men (saith he) that they may see your good works.
2. He induceth them so to do, by showing that albeit they be not justified by works; yet spectators of their good works may be converted or edified, and so glory may redound to God by their good works, when the witnesses thereof shall glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
2. He induceth them so to do, by shewing that albeit they be not justified by works; yet spectators of their good works may be converted or edified, and so glory may redound to God by their good works, when the witnesses thereof shall glorifie your Father which is in Heaven.
3. He gives them no other rule for their new obedience, than the Moral Law, set down, and explicated by Moses and the Prophets. Think not (saith he) that I am come to destroy the Law, and the Prophets.