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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.
HEAD II. The remedy provided in Jesus Christ for the Elect by the Covenant of Grace; Hos. 13.9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self, but in me is thine help.
Albeit man, having brought himself into this woeful condition be neither able to •elp himself, nor willing to be helped by God •ut of it, but rather inclined to lie still unsen•••le of it, till he perish: yet God for the glory •f his rich Grace, hath revealed in his Word •way to save sinners, to wit, by faith in Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God, by virtue of •nd according to, the tenor of the Covenant of Redemption, made and agreed upon between God the Father and God the Son, in the counsel of the Trinity before the World began.
ALbeit man, having brought himself into this woeful condition be neither able to •elp himself, nor willing to be helped by God •ut of it, but rather inclined to ly still unsen•••le of it, till he perish: yet God for the glory •f his rich Grace, hath revealed in his Word •way to save sinners, to wit, by faith in Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God, by vertue of •nd according to, the tenor of the Covenant of Redemption, made and agreed upon between God the Father and God the Son, in the counsel of the Trinity before the World began.