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A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches…
A Declaration of the faith and order owned and practiced in the Congregational churches in England agreed upon and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658.
London: printed by John Field, 1659
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
After the 19th cap. of the Law, we have added a cap. of the Gospel, it being a Title that may not well be omitted in a Confession of Faith. In which Chapter, what is dispersed, and by intimation in the Assemblies Confession with some little addition, is here brought together, and more fully under one head.
That there are not Scriptures annexed as in some Confessions (though in divers others it's otherwise) we give the same account as did the Reverend Assembly in the same case:1 which was this; The Confession being large, and so framed, as to meet with the common errors, if the Scriptures should have been alleged with any clearness, and by showing where the strength of the proof lieth, it would have required a volume.
That there are not Scriptures annexed as in some Confessions (though in divers others it's otherwise) we give the same account as did the Reverend Assembly in the same case:1 which was this; The Confession being large, and so framed, as to meet with the common errors, if the Scriptures should have been alleadged with any clearness, and by shewing where the strength of the proof lieth, it would have required a volume.
- 1Session •86.
We say further, it being our utmost end in this (as it is indeed of a Confession) humbly to give an account what we hold and assert in these matters; that others, especially the Churches of Christ may judge of us accordingly. ⟨image 12⟩