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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. 191. What do we pray for in the second Petition?
A. In the second Petition [which is, thy kingdom comea.] acknowledging our selves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satanb; we pray that the Kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyedc, the Gospel propagated throughout the worldd, the Jews ⟨p. 162⟩callede, the fullness of the Gentiles brought inf, the Church furnished with all Gospel officers and ordinancesg, purged from corruptionh, countenanced & maintained by the civil Magistratei, that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, & the confirming, comforting and building up of those that are already convertedk: that Christ would rule in our hearts here, & hasten the time of his second coming,l