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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
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Of Saving Faith
By this faith, a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the …
Of Saving Faith
This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong; may be often and many ways assailed, …
Of Saving Faith
The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is …
Of Justification
… in them, or done by them, but for Christ’s sake alone; nor by imputing faith itself, the act of believing, or any other evangelical obedience to them, as their …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
… are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and …
Of Justification
Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
… are in any thing contrary to His Word; or beside it, if matters of faith or worship. So that, to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commands, out …
Of the Lord’s Supper
… outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also, inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually, receive and feed upon …
Of the Holy Scripture
… John All which are given by inspiration of God, to be the rule of faith and life.
Of the Holy Scripture
… whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
… everlasting glory, out of His mere free grace and love, without any foresight of faith or good works, or perseverance in either of them, or any other thing in …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
… He freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
… through the operation of the Spirit, to instruct and build up the elect in faith in the promised Messiah, by whom they had full remission of sins, and eternal …
Of Justification
… unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance.
Of Repentance unto Life
… to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ.
Of Good Works
… obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and by them believers manifest their thankfulness, strengthen their assurance, edify their brethren, adorn …
Of Good Works
… to themselves and others: yet, because they proceed not from a heart purified by faith; nor are done in a right manner according to the Word; nor to a …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
… conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, the inward evidence of …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
… are they never so utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart, and conscience of …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
… to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or, to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or …
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
… the help of His Spirit, according to His will, with understanding, reverence, humility, fervency, faith, love, and perseverance; and, if vocal, in a known tongue.
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
… sound preaching and conscionable hearing of the Word, in obedience unto God, with understanding, faith and reverence; singing of psalms with grace in the heart; as also, the due …
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
… be made with the like religious care, and to be performed with the like faithfulness.
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
… and that it may be accepted, it is to be made voluntarily, out of faith, and conscience of duty, in way of thankfulness for mercy received, or for the …
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Heads of doctrine
The Covenant of Grace
… God freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him. WCF VII.3-6 teaches that the covenant of grace is one in substance …
Justification
… obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them and received by faith alone. WCF XI is the heart of the Reformed soteriology.
Saving Faith
The grace of faith, by which the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, …
Good Works
… as God has commanded in his holy Word, proceeding from a heart purified by faith, are properly good works. They are the fruits and evidences of a true and …
Assurance of Grace
… the Spirit of adoption. Yet assurance does not belong to the essence of saving faith: a true believer may wait long and conflict with many difficulties before attaining it …
Cruxes
Good and Necessary Consequence
How does Scripture warrant doctrines it does not explicitly state?
The Mosaic Covenant
Sinai: republication of the covenant of works, or administration of the covenant of grace?
The Children of Believers and the Sign of the Covenant
Who belongs in the visible covenant, and what is the sign?
Justification and the Antinomian Crisis
How do you secure sola fide without letting the law fall away?
Assurance: Of the Essence of Saving Faith?
Does every true believer have full assurance, or is assurance a separate gift?