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Westminster Larger Catechism
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How doth it appear that the scriptures are the word of God?
The scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by their majesty and purity; by …
What do the scriptures principally teach?
The scriptures principally teach, what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires …
What do the scriptures make known of God?
The scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the …
What is the word of God?
The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the word of God, the only rule …
How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?
The scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father, …
Is the word of God to be read by all?
… read it apart by themselves, and with their families: to which end, the holy scriptures are to be translated out of the original into vulgar languages.
How is the word of God to be read?
The holy scriptures are to be read with an high and reverent esteem of them; with a …
What is required of those that hear the word preached?
… attend upon it with diligence, preparation, and prayer; examine: What they hear by the scriptures; receive the truth with faith, love, meekness, and readiness of mind, as the word …
What is the chief and highest end of man?
Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever.
How doth it appear that there is a God?
The very light of nature in man, and the works of God, declare plainly that there is a God; but his word and Spirit only do sufficiently and …
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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.