A34242:617
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. In the fifth Petition [which is Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtorsu,] acknowledging that we & all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, & thereby become debtors to the justice of God, and that neither we, nor any other creature can make the least satisfaction for that debtw; we pray for our selves & others, that God of his free grace would, through the obedience & satisfaction of Christ apprehended & applied by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of sinx, accept us in his belovedy, continue his favour and grace to usz, pardon our daily failingsa, & fill us with peace and joy, in giving us daily more and more assurance of forgivenessb, which we are the rather emboldened to ask and encouraged to expect when we have this Testimony in our selves, that we from the heart forgive others their offencesc.
A. In the fifth Petition [which is Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtorsu,] acknowledging that we & all others are guilty both of original and actual sin, & thereby become debters to the justice of God, and that neither we, nor any other creature can make the least sa•isfaction for that debtw; we pray for our selves & others, that God of his free grace would, through the obedience & satisfaction of Christ apprehended & applyed by faith, acquit us both from the guilt and punishment of sin