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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.
Q. 85. Death being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are forgiven in Christ?
A. The righteous shall be delivered from death it self at the last day, & even in death are delivered from the sting & curse of itg, so that although they die, yet it is out of Gods loveh to free them perfectly from sin and miseryi, & to make then▪ capable of further communion with Christ in glory, which they then enter uponk
- g1 Cor. 15.16▪ 56.
- h[…] 57.1.〈…〉 57.1.
- iRev. 14.15.
- kLuk. 23.43.
Q. 89. What is the Communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death?