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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.
CHAP. III. Of Gods Eternal Decree.
GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy Counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to passa; yet so, as thereby, neither is God the Author of sinb, nor is violence offered to the will of the ⟨p. 13⟩Creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second Causes taken away, but rather establishedc.
GOD from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy Counsel of his own will, freely, and unchangeably o•dain whatsoever comes to passa; yet so, as thereby, neither is God the Author of sinb, nor is violence offered to the will of the ⟨p. 13⟩Creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second Causes taken away, but rather establishedc.