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Westminster Confession of Faith
17
Of the Holy Scripture
The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself: and therefore, when there is a question about the true …
Of the Holy Scripture
… His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture: unto which nothing …
Of the Holy Scripture
All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things …
Of the Holy Scripture
… to all the people of God, who have right unto, and interest in the Scriptures, and are commanded, in the fear of God, to read and search them, therefore …
Of the Holy Scripture
… of the world, to commit the same wholly unto writing: which maketh the Holy Scripture to be most necessary; those former ways of God’s revealing His will unto His …
Of the Holy Scripture
Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the …
Of the Holy Scripture
… Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be …
Of the Holy Scripture
The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony …
Of the Holy Scripture
… the testimony of the Church to a high and reverent esteem of the Holy Scripture. And the heavenliness of the matter, the efficacy of the doctrine, the majesty of …
Of the Holy Scripture
… are to rest; can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.
Of God’s Covenant with Man
This covenant of grace is frequently set forth in Scripture by the name of a Testament, in reference to the death of Jesus Christ …
Of Christ the Mediator
… unity of the person, that which is proper to one nature, is sometimes in Scripture attributed to the person denominated by the other nature.
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
… Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture.
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
The reading of the Scriptures with godly fear, the sound preaching and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience …
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
… resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week, which, in Scripture, is called the Lord’s Day, and is to be continued to the end of …
Of the Lord’s Supper
… by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant, not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason; overthroweth the nature of the sacrament, …
Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead
… the great day. Beside these two places, for souls separated from their bodies, the Scripture acknowledgeth none.
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Divines, cruxes, schools, and heads of doctrine
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Heads of doctrine
Prolegomena / The Nature of Theology
… theological knowledge: why theology is necessary, how it differs from philosophy, and what role Scripture plays as the principium cognoscendi (the cognitive principle) of all doctrinal inquiry. The Shorter …
The Doctrine of Scripture (Bibliology)
… of the Bible. WCF I is the most fully developed Reformed confessional treatment of Scripture: ten sections covering inscripturation, the 66-book canon, the exclusion of the Apocrypha, the internal …
Cruxes
The Canon and the Apocrypha
The Assembly drew a sharper line against the Apocrypha than Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles.
Good and Necessary Consequence
How does Scripture warrant doctrines it does not explicitly state?
The Strict Sabbath
The Lord’s Day as the perpetual fourth commandment, kept holy whole-day.
The Grand Debate over Polity
Presbyterian or Independent: who exercises the keys of the kingdom?
The Regulative Principle of Worship
Only what God commands may be done in worship.