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25.5

Of the Church

The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: and some have so degenerated, …

25.4

Of the Church

This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are members thereof, …

25.6

Of the Church

There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, …

30.1

Of Church Censures

The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the …

30.3

Of Church Censures

Church censures are necessary, for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren, for deterring of …

30.4

Of Church Censures

For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for …

25.1

Of the Church

The catholic or universal Church which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, …

25.2

Of the Church

The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation …

25.3

Of the Church

Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and …

30.2

Of Church Censures

To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed: by virtue whereof, they have power respectively to retain, and remit sins; to shut that kingdom …

1.1

Of the Holy Scripture

… in divers manners, to reveal Himself, and to declare that His will unto His Church; and afterwards, for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the …

20.4

Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience

… are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of …

28.1

Of Baptism

… Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church; but also, to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of …

31.2

Of Synods and Councils

… advise with, about matters of religion; so, if magistrates be open enemies to the Church, the ministers of Christ of themselves, by virtue of their office, or they, with …

1.3

Of the Holy Scripture

… of the canon of the Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other …

1.4

Of the Holy Scripture

… to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or Church; but wholly upon God (who is truth itself) the author thereof: and therefore it …

1.5

Of the Holy Scripture

We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of …

1.6

Of the Holy Scripture

… that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, and government of the Church, common to human actions and societies, which are to be ordered by the light …

1.8

Of the Holy Scripture

… in all ages, are therefore authentical; so as, in all controversies of religion, the Church is finally to appeal unto them. But, because these original tongues are not known …

5.7

Of Providence

… to all creatures, so after a most special manner, it taketh care of His Church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.

8.1

Of Christ the Mediator

… God and man; the Prophet, Priest, and King, the Head and Saviour of His Church, the Heir of all things, and Judge of the world: unto whom He did …

15.6

Of Repentance unto Life

… of them, he shall find mercy: so, he that scandalizeth his brother, or the Church of Christ, ought to be willing, by a private or public confession, and sorrow …

19.3

Of the Law of God

… called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, His …

20.1

Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience

… in their freedom from the yoke of the ceremonial law, to which the Jewish Church was subjected; and in greater boldness of access to the throne of grace, and …

23.3

Of the Civil Magistrate

… is his duty, to take order, that unity and peace be. preserved in the Church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire; that all blasphemies and …