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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. 101. What special things are we to consider in the ten Commandments?
A. We are to consider in the 10 Commandments, the preface, the substance of the Commandments themselves, & several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to enforce them.
A. We are to consider in the 10 Commandments, the preface, the substance of the Commandments themselves, & several reasons annexed to some of them, the more to inforce them.
Q. 102. What is the preface to the Commandments?
A. The preface to the Commandments is contained in these words [I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondaged,] where in God manifesteth his Sovereignty, as being Jehovah, the eternal, immutable, and Almighty Gode, having his being in and of himselff