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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.
A. God by an eternal and immutable decree, •ut of his mere love for the praise of his glorious grace to be manifested in due time, ha•h elected some Angels to gloryw; and in Christ hath chosen some men to eternal life, and the means thereof xand also according to his sovereign power, and the unsearchable counsel ⟨p. 81⟩of his own will (whereby he extendeth or withholdeth favour as he pleaseth) hath passed by and fore-ordained the rest to dishonour and wrath, to be for their sin inflicted, to the praise of the glory of his justicey
A. God by an eternal and immutable decree, •ut of his meer love for the praise of his glorious grace to be manifested in due time, ha•h elected some Angels to gloryw; and in Christ hath chosen some men to eternal life, and the means thereof xand also according to his soveraign power, and the unsearchable co•nsel ⟨p. 81⟩of his own will (whereby he extendeth or witholdeth favour as he pleaseth) hath passed by and fore-ordained the rest to dishonour and wrath, to be for their sin inflicted, to the praise of the glory of his justicey
- w1 Tim. 5.21.
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