A34242:173
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.
II. There is in every Sacrament a Spiritual relation, or Sacramental union, between the sign and the ⟨p. 62⟩thing signified: whence it comes to pass, that the names, and effects of the one, are attributed to the otherf.
III. 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 itg; but upon the work of the Spirith, and the word of institution, which contains, together with a precept authorizing the use thereof, a promise of benefit to worthy receiversi.