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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.
Those whom GOD effectually calleth he also freely justifieth anot by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, & by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not, for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christs sake alone: nor, by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, nor any other evangelical obedience, to them as their righteousness; but, by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto themb, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by ⟨p. 30⟩faith, which faith they have, not of themselves, it is the gift of Godc.
THose whom GOD effectually calleth he also freely justifieth anot by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, & by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous: not, for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Christs sake alone: nor, by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, nor any other evangelical obedience, to them as their righteousness; but, by imputing the obedience and satisfaction of Christ unto themb, they receiving and resting on him and his righteousness by ⟨p. 30⟩faith, which faith they have, not of themselves, it is the gift of Godc.
- aRo. 8.30. and 3, 24.
- b