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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.
5. He teacheth, that the end of the Gospel and Covenant of Grace, is to procure mens obedience unto the Moral Law, I am come ⟨image 122⟩(saith he) to fulfil the Law, and the Prophets.
6. That the obligation of the Moral Law, it• all points, unto all holy duties, is perpetual and shall stand to the worlds end, that is, till Heaven and Earth pass away.
7. That as God hath a care of the Scriptures from the beginning, so shall he have care of them still to the Worlds end, that there shall not one jot or one title of the substance thereof be taken away, so saith the Text, v. 11.
8. That as the breaking of the Moral Law, and defending the transgression thereof to be no sin, doth exclude men both from Heaven, and justly also from the fellowship of the true Kirk, so the obedience of the Law and teaching others to do the same, by example, counsel and doctrine, according to every mans calling, proveth a man to be a true believer, and in great estimation with God, and worthy to be much esteemed of by the true Church, v. 19.