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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
46
Of Effectual Calling
All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased in His appointed and …
Of Effectual Calling
This effectual call is of God’s free and special grace alone, not from anything at all foreseen in …
Of Effectual Calling
Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and …
Of Effectual Calling
Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some …
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 …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes, and carnal presumptions of being …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; but an infallible …
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence …
Of Christ the Mediator
To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, He doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel: …
Of Sanctification
They who are once effectually called and regenerated, having a new heart and a new spirit created in …
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
They, whom God hath accepted in His Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by His Spirit, can neither totally, …
Of the Holy Scripture
Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, …
Of the Holy Scripture
The books commonly called Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are no part of the canon of the …
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
The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, …
Of the Holy Scripture
All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
The doctrine of this high mystery of predestination is to be handled with special prudence and care, that …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
Under the gospel, when Christ, the substance, was exhibited, the ordinances in which this covenant is dispensed are …
Of Christ the Mediator
It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, …
Of Christ the Mediator
The Lord Jesus, in His human nature thus united to the divine, was sanctified and anointed with the …
Of Free Will
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any …
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning …
Of Adoption
All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers …
Of the Law of God
Beside this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended …
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
The light of nature showeth that there is a God, who hath lordship and sovereignty over all, is …
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
Neither prayer, nor any other part of religious worship, is now under the Gospel either tied unto, or …
Of Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart …
Of the Civil Magistrate
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto; in …
Of the Civil Magistrate
The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and sacraments, or the power …
Of the Church
The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation as …
Of the Church
Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering …
Of the Church
There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of …
Of the Communion of the Saints
Saints by profession are bound to maintain a holy fellowship and communion in the worship of God; and …
Of Baptism
The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized, …
Of Baptism
Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not …
Of the Lord’s Supper
Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein He was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of His body and blood, …
Of the Lord’s Supper
In this sacrament, Christ is not offered up to His Father; nor any real sacrifice made at all …
Of the Lord’s Supper
The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation …
Of the Lord’s Supper
That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ’s …
Of Synods and Councils
For the better government, and further edification of the Church, there ought to be such assemblies as are …
Of Synods and Councils
As magistrates may lawfully call a synod of ministers, and other fit persons, to consult and advise with, …
Of the Last Judgment
The end of God’s appointing this day is for the manifestation of the glory of His mercy, in …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
62
What is effectual calling?
Effectual calling is the work of God's almighty power and grace, whereby (out of his free and special …
Are the elect only effectually called?
All the elect, and they only, are effectually called; although others may be, and often are, outwardly called …
How is the word made effectual to salvation?
The Spirit of God makes the reading, but especially the preaching of the word, an effectual means of …
How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not by any power in themselves, or any virtue derived from …
Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are in the estate …
Such as truly believe in Christ, and endeavor to walk in all good conscience before him, may, without …
How is the word of God to be preached by those that …
They that are called to labor in the ministry of the word, are to preach sound doctrine, diligently, …
What is that union which the elect have with Christ?
The union which the elect have with Christ is the work of God's grace, whereby they are spiritually …
Who are made partakers of redemption through Christ?
Redemption is certainly applied, and effectually communicated, to all those for whom Christ hath purchased it; who are …
Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not …
They who, having never heard the gospel, know not Jesus Christ, and believe not in him, cannot be …
What are the special privileges of the visible church?
The visible church hath the privilege of being under God's special care and government; of being protected and …
What is justifying faith?
Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and word …
May not true believers, by reason of their imperfections, and the many …
True believers, by reason of the unchangeable love of God, and his decree and covenant to give them …
Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being …
Assurance of grace and salvation not being of the essence of faith, true believers may wait long before …
What benefits hath Christ procured by his mediation?
Christ, by his mediation, hath procured redemption, with all other benefits of the covenant of grace.
How do we come to be made partakers of the benefits which …
We are made partakers of the benefits which Christ hath procured, by the application of them unto us, …
Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the …
All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who …
What is the visible church?
The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of …
What is the invisible church?
The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered …
What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by …
The members of the invisible church by Christ enjoy union and communion with him in grace and glory.
What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible …
The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of …
What is justification?
Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth …
How is justification an act of God's free grace?
Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice …
How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?
Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always …
What is adoption?
Adoption is an act of the free grace of God, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, …
What is sanctification?
Sanctification is a work of God's grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, …
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and …
Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness …
Whence ariseth the imperfection of sanctification in believers?
The imperfection of sanctification in believers ariseth from the remnants of sin abiding in every part of them, …
What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible …
The communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is in this life, …
What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of …
The members of the invisible church have communicated to them in this life the firstfruits of glory with …
Shall all men die?
Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all men once to die; for …
Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered …
The righteous shall be delivered from death itself at the last day, and even in death are delivered …
What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of …
The communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, …
What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?
We are to believe, that at the last day there shall be a general resurrection of the dead, …
What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?
Immediately after the resurrection shall follow the general and final judgment of angels and men; the day and …
What shall be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?
At the day of judgment, the wicked shall be set on Christ's left hand, and, upon clear evidence, …
What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?
At the day of judgment, the righteous, being caught up to Christ in the clouds, shall be set …
Why was our Mediator called Jesus?
Our Mediator was called Jesus, because he saveth his people from their sins.
Why was our Mediator called Christ?
Our Mediator was called Christ, because he was anointed with the Holy Ghost above measure; and so set …
Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin …
God doth not leave all men to perish in the estate of sin and misery, into which they …
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 …
What are the outward means whereby Christ communicates to us the benefits …
The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicates to his church the benefits of his mediation, are all …
What do we pray for in the second petition.?
In the second petition (which is, Thy kingdom come,) acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature …
How is the grace of God manifested in the second covenant?
The grace of God is manifested in the second covenant, in that he freely provideth and offereth to …
What are the sins forbidden in the ninth commandment?
The sins forbidden in the ninth commandment are, all prejudicing the truth, and the good name of our …
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 the consent …
Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consisteth in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want …
How was the covenant of grace administered under the Old Testament?
The covenant of grace was administered under the Old Testament, by promises, prophecies, sacrifices, circumcision, the passover, and …
How is the covenant of grace administered under the New Testament?
Under the New Testament, when Christ the substance was exhibited, the same covenant of grace was and still …
Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God?
It was requisite that the Mediator should be God, that he might sustain and keep the human nature …
How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in his revealing to the church, in all ages, by his …
How doth Christ execute the office of a king?
Christ executeth the office of a king, in calling out of the world a people to himself, and …
What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the …
For the right understanding of the ten commandments, these rules are to be observed: 1. That the law …
What are the duties required in the first commandment?
The duties required in the first commandment are, the knowing and acknowledging of God to be the only …
What are the duties required in the second commandment?
The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such …
What is required in the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment requires of all men the sanctifying or keeping holy to God such set times as …
What are the duties required in the seventh commandment?
The duties required in the seventh commandment are, chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and behavior; and the …
What are the duties required in the eighth commandment?
The duties required in the eighth commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man …
What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment?
The sins forbidden in the eighth commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, theft, robbery, man-stealing, …
By whom is the word of God to be preached?
The word of God is to be preached only by such as are sufficiently gifted, and also duly …
What rule hath God given for our direction in the duty of …
The whole word of God is of use to direct us in the duty of prayer; but the …
What do we pray for in the sixth petition?
In the sixth petition (which is, And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,) acknowledging, …
WSC
Westminster Shorter Catechism
13
What is effectual calling?
Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our …
What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this …
They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several …
How is the Word made effectual to salvation?
The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of …
How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may …
That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive …
How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth …
How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ?
The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting …
What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us …
The outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption are, his ordinances, especially …
Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell, consists in the guilt of Adam's first sin, the want …
Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin …
God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life did enter …
How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his Word and Spirit the will …
How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ?
We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us …
What is faith in Jesus Christ?
Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, …
What rule hath God given for our direction in prayer?
The whole Word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but the special rule of …
BCO
Book of Church Order (PCA)
80
56-5
56-5. The minister shall then read the covenant promises: For to you is the promise, and to your …
57-5
57-5. The time having come for the making of a public profession, and those who have been approved …
The King and Head of the Church
I. THE KING AND HEAD OF THE CHURCH Jesus Christ, upon whose shoulders the government rests, whose name …
8-5
8-5. When a man is called to labor as a teaching elder, it belongs to his order, in …
13-9
13-9. The Presbytery has power to receive and issue* appeals, complaints, and references brought before it in an …
37-4
37-4. When an excommunicated person shall be so affected with his state as to be brought to repentance, …
19-14
19-14. An intern, who, during his internship, is to serve a congregation in the capacity of the minister …
20-1
20-1. Before a candidate, or licentiate, can be ordained to the office of the ministry, he must receive …
20-6
20-6. Form of call: The terms of the call shall be approved by the congregation in the following …
5-9
5-9. A new church can be organized only by the authority of Presbytery. a. A Presbytery should establish …
20-5
20-5. On the election of a pastor, if it appears that a large minority of the voters are …
13-12
13-12. The Presbytery shall meet at least twice a year on its own adjournment. The Moderator shall call …
20-10
20-10. A congregation desiring to call a pastor from his charge, shall, by its commissioners to the Presbytery, …
21-1
21-1. No minister, licentiate or candidate shall receive a call from a church but by the permission of …
8-4
8-4. As the Lord has given different gifts to men and has committed to some special gifts and …
13-5
13-5. Ordinarily, only a minister who receives a call to a definite ecclesiastical work within the bounds of …
25-2
25-2. Whenever it may seem for the best interests of the church that a congregational meeting should be …
8-9
8-9. As there were in the Church under the law, elders of the people for the government thereof, …
13-2
13-2. A minister shall be required to hold his membership in the Presbytery within whose geographical bounds he …
14-3
14-3. When an emergency shall require a meeting of the General Assembly earlier than the time to which …
20-7
20-7. If any church shall choose to designate its ruling elders and deacons, or a committee to sign …
20-8
20-8. Prosecution of call: One or more commissioners shall be appointed by the church to present and prosecute …
20-9
20-9. When a pastor desires to accept a call to another Presbytery, he must be examined and approved …
20-11
20-11. If the congregation or other field of labor to which a minister, licentiate, or candidate is called, …
22-5
22-5. In order to provide necessary changes in pastorates, a temporary relation may be established between a church …
23-1
23-1. When any minister shall tender the resignation of his pastoral charge to his Presbytery, the Presbytery shall …
24-1
24-1. Every church shall elect persons to the offices of ruling elder and deacon in the following manner: …
32-3
32-3. It is appropriate that with each citation the moderator or clerk call the attention of the parties …
58-7
58-7. The minister may, in a few words, put the communicants in mind: Of the grace of God, …
5-4
5-4. Pastoral ministry for the mission church may be provided: a. by a minister of the Presbytery called …
5-5
5-5. The temporary government shall receive members (BCO 12-5.a) into the mission church according to the provisions of …
7-2
7-2. The ordinary and perpetual classes of office in the Church are elders and deacons. Within the class …
8-3
8-3. It belongs to those in the office of elder, both severally and jointly, to watch diligently over …
8-7
8-7. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work with an …
8-8
8-8. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work as a …
12-5
12-5. The church Session is charged with maintaining the spiritual government of the church, for which purpose it …
14-1
14-1. The General Assembly is the highest court of this Church, and represents in one body all the …
16-1
16-1. Ordinary vocation to office in the Church is the calling of God by the Spirit, through the …
16-3
16-3. Upon those whom God calls to bear office in His Church He bestows suitable gifts for the …
17-1
17-1. Those who have been called to office in the Church are to be inducted by the ordination …
17-2
17-2. Ordination is the authoritative admission of one duly called to an office in the Church of God, …
18-1
18-1. A candidate for the ministry is a member of the Church in full communion who, believing himself …
19-2
19-2. Examination for Licensure. The examination for licensure shall be as follows: a. Give a statement of his …
19-3
19-3. Questions for Licensure. If the Presbytery be satisfied with the trials of the applicant, it shall then …
19-4
19-4. The applicant having answered these questions in the affirmative, the moderator shall offer a prayer suitable for …
19-5
19-5. When any licentiate shall have occasion to remove from the bounds of his Presbytery into those of …
19-7
19-7. The Holy Scriptures require that some trial be previously made of those who are to be ordained …
19-9
19-9. Examination for Internship. Before the applicant begins his period of internship, he shall give to the Presbytery …
19-10
19-10. When an applicant is approved for internship, the moderator of the Presbytery shall offer a prayer suitable …
19-13
19-13. At the end of the period of time set by the Presbytery for his internship, an intern …
19-15
19-15. Restrictions. The intern may be asked by the moderator of a Session temporarily to chair the meeting …
20-2
20-2. Every church should be under the pastoral oversight of a minister, and when a church has no …
20-3
20-3. When a congregation is convened for the election of a pastor it is important that they should …
20-4
20-4. Method of voting: The voters being convened, and prayer for divine guidance having been offered, the moderator …
20-12
20-12. A candidate or licentiate found fit and called (in accordance with BCO 20-1) for missionary service by …
20-13
20-13. A missionary who is an ordained teaching elder in another denomination found fit and called (in accordance …
21-2
21-2. When an intern has completed his internship to the satisfaction of the Presbytery, and has accepted a …
21-5
21-5. The day appointed for the ordination having come, and the Presbytery being convened, a sermon suitable for …
21-6
21-6. The candidate having answered these questions in the affirmative, the presiding minister shall propose to the church …
21-9
21-9. In the installation of an ordained minister, the following questions are to be substituted for those addressed …
21-10
21-10. The candidate having answered these question in the affirmative, the presiding minister shall propose to the church …
22-2
22-2. The pastor and associate pastor are elected by the congregation using the form of call in BCO …
22-3
22-3. An assistant pastor is called by the Session, by the permission and approval of Presbytery, under the …
24-2
24-2. The pastor is, by virtue of his office, moderator of congregational meetings. If there is no pastor, …
24-7
24-7. Ordination to the offices of ruling elder or deacon is perpetual; nor can such offices be laid …
25-4
25-4. The pastor shall be the moderator of congregational meetings by virtue of his office. If it should …
27-5
27-5. Scriptural law is the basis of all discipline because it is the revelation of God’s Holy will. …
32-11
32-11. In every process, if deemed expedient there may be a committee appointed, which shall be called the …
32-15
32-15. When a court of first resort proceeds to the trial of a case, the following order shall …
34-10
34-10. Whenever a minister of the Gospel shall habitually fail to be engaged in the regular discharge of …
35-8
35-8. The oath or affirmation to a witness shall be administered by the Moderator in the following or …
37-5
37-5. The restoration of a deposed officer, after public confession has been made in a manner similar to …
38-2
38-2. A minister of the Gospel against whom there are no charges, if fully satisfied in his own …
43-2
43-2. A complaint shall first be made to the court whose act or decision is alleged to be …
47-8
47-8. It behooves God’s people not only to come into His presence with a deep sense of awe …
53-1
53-1. The preaching of the Word is an ordinance of God for the salvation of men. Serious attention …
56-1
56-1. Baptism is not to be unnecessarily delayed; not to be administered, in any case, by any private …
62-3
62-3. It should be left to the judgment and discretion of every Christian and family to determine when …
62-6
62-6. On days of fasting, the minister should point out the authority and providences calling for the observance; …
62-7
62-7. On days of thanksgiving, he should give information respecting the authority and providences which call for the …