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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.
A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with Godg, are under his wrath & curseh, & so made liable to all miseries in this life, to death it self, & to the pains of Hell for everi.
- gGen. 3.8.10, 24.
- hEph. 2.2, 3
- iLa 3.39. Mat. 25 41.46.
Q. 29. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
A. God having out of his mere good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting lifek, did enter into a Covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin & misery, and to bring them into an estate of Salvation by a Redeemerl.
A. God having out of his meer good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life