A34242:919
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.
Hence let the penitent desiring to believe, ••ason thus:
What doth suffice to convince all the Elect […] the world of the greatness of the sin of not ••lieving in Christ, or refusing to flee to him […] relief from sins done against the Law, and ••om wrath due thereto? and what sufficeth […] convince them that righteousness and eternal life is to be had by Faith in Jesus Christ, or […] consenting to the Covenant of Grace in him? ⟨image 109⟩and what sufficeth to convince them of Judgement to be exercised by Christ for destroying the works of the Devil in a man, and sanctifying and saving all that believe in him, may suffice to convince me also.
What doth suffice to convince all the Elect 〈…〉 the world of the greatness of the sin of not ••lieving in Christ, or refusing to flee to him 〈…〉 relief from sins done against the Law, and ••om wrath due thereto? and what sufficeth 〈…〉 convince them that righteousness and eter••l life is to be had by Faith in Jesus Christ, or 〈…〉 consenting to the Covenant of Grace in him? ⟨image 109⟩and what sufficeth to convince them of Judgement to be exercised by Christ for destroying the works of the Devil in a man, and sanctifying and saving all that believe in him, may suffice to convince me also.