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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.
III. God in his ordinary Providence maketh use of meansk: yet is free to work withoutl, abovem, and against them at his pleasuren. IV. The Almighty power, unsearchable wisdom; and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in his Providence, that it extendeth it self even to the first fall, and all other sins of Angels and meno, and that not by a bare permissionp, but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful boundingq, and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy endsr: yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God who being most holy and righteous, neither is, nor can be the Author or Approver of sins.
III. God in his ordinary Providence maketh use of meansk: yet is free to work withoutl, abovem, and against them at his pleasuren. IV. The Almighty power, unsearchable wisdom; and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselve• in his Providence, that it extendeth it self even to the first fall, and all other sins of Angels and men