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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
66
Of Repentance unto Life
Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of …
Of Repentance unto Life
Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour …
Of Repentance unto Life
By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense not only of the danger, but also of …
Of Repentance unto Life
Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the …
Of Repentance unto Life
As there is no sin so small, but it deserves damnation, so there is no sin so great, …
Of Repentance unto Life
As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God, praying for the pardon …
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, and of the Holy Trinity
God hath all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of Himself; and is alone in and unto Himself …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according …
Of Effectual Calling
All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased in His appointed and …
Of Baptism
Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission …
Of the Holy Scripture
The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
By the decree of God, for the manifestation of His glory, some men and angels are predestinated unto …
Of Justification
God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified: and although they can never fall …
Of Good Works
These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and …
Of the Church
Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering …
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 Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old), and …
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 Lord’s Supper
Our Lord Jesus, in the night wherein He was betrayed, instituted the sacrament of His body and blood, …
Of the Holy Scripture
All things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all: yet those things …
Of Christ the Mediator
The Lord Jesus, by His perfect obedience, and sacrifice of Himself, which He, through the eternal Spirit, once …
Of Saving Faith
By this faith, a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority …
Of the Law of God
Although true believers be not under the law, as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified, or …
Of the Holy Scripture
Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books …
Of Creation
After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, …
Of Providence
The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave for a season His own children to manifold …
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be, …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto …
Of God’s Covenant with Man
The first covenant made with man was a covenant of works, wherein life was promised to Adam, and …
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 Christ the Mediator
Although the work of redemption was not actually wrought by Christ till after His incarnation, yet the virtue, …
Of Christ the Mediator
To all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption, He doth certainly and effectually apply and communicate the …
Of Effectual Calling
Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some …
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning …
Of Justification
God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fulness of …
Of Sanctification
This sanctification is throughout, in the whole man; yet imperfect in this life, there abiding still some remnants …
Of Good Works
They, who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so …
Of Good Works
We cannot, by our best works, merit pardon of sin, or eternal life at the hand of God, …
Of Good Works
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in Him, …
Of Good Works
Works done by unregenerate men, although, for the matter of them, they may be things which God commands, …
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 the Law of God
God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which He bound him and all …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the Gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
They who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, do practice any sin, or cherish any lust, do thereby destroy …
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
Prayer is to be made for things lawful; and for all sorts of men living, or that shall …
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 …
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 Religious Worship and the Sabbath-day
This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, …
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
No man may vow to do anything forbidden in the Word of God, or what would hinder any …
Of Marriage and Divorce
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their …
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 the Sacraments
Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ …
Of Baptism
Not only those that do actually profess faith in and obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of …
Of Baptism
Although it be a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance, yet grace and salvation are not …
Of Baptism
The efficacy of Baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet notwithstanding, …
Of Baptism
The sacrament of Baptism is but once to be administered unto any person.
Of the Lord’s Supper
In this sacrament, Christ is not offered up to His Father; nor any real sacrifice made at all …
Of Church Censures
To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed: by virtue whereof, they have power …
Of the State of Man After Death, and of the Resurrection of …
The bodies of the unjust shall, by the power of Christ, be raised to dishonour: the bodies of …
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
55
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and …
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 …
What is sanctification?
Sanctification is a work of God's grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, …
How are they that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper to …
They that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper are, before they come, to prepare themselves thereunto, by …
How is original sin conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity?
Original sin is conveyed from our first parents unto their posterity by natural generation, so as all that …
How did Christ humble himself in his life?
Christ humbled himself in his life, by subjecting himself to the law, which he perfectly fulfilled; and by …
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 …
What did God at first reveal unto man as the rule of …
The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, …
Unto whom is Baptism to be administered?
Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers …
Are we to pray unto God only?
God only being able to search the hearts, hear the requests, pardon the sins, and fulfil the desires …
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 those aggravations that make some sins more heinous than others?
Sins receive their aggravations, 1. From the persons offending: if they be of riper age, greater experience or …
What is Baptism?
Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the …
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
In the fourth petition (which is, Give us this day our daily bread,) acknowledging, that in Adam, and …
What are the reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to …
The reasons annexed to the second commandment, the more to enforce it, contained in these words, For I …
Which is the second commandment?
The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything …
What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment?
The sins forbidden in the sixth commandment are, all taking away the life of ourselves, or of others, …
What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in …
The providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created, was the placing him …
Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?
Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness …
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 sixth commandment?
The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life …
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 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 …
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 …
How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are …
The scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father, ascribing unto …
What hath God especially decreed concerning angels and men?
God, by an eternal and immutable decree, out of his mere love, for the praise of his glorious …
What is sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, any law of God, given as a rule …
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 …
Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be man?
It was requisite that the Mediator should be man, that he might advance our nature, perform obedience to …
What was the estate of Christ's humiliation?
The estate of Christ's humiliation was that low condition, wherein he for our sakes, emptying himself of his …
How did Christ humble himself in his death?
Christ humbled himself in his death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by his disciples, scorned …
How was Christ exalted in his resurrection?
Christ was exalted in his resurrection, in that, not having seen corruption in death (of which it was …
How was Christ exalted in his ascension?
Christ was exalted in his ascension, in that having after his resurrection often appeared unto and conversed with …
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, …
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 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 …
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 …
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, …
Shall all men die?
Death being threatened as the wages of sin, it is appointed unto all men once to die; for …
What is the moral law?
The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding everyone to …
Is there any use of the moral law to man since the …
Although no man, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law; yet there …
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 the reason annexed to the fifth commandment, the more to …
The reason annexed to the fifth commandment, in these words, That thy days may be long upon the …
What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment?
The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, adultery, fornication, rape, …
What are the duties required in the tenth commandment?
The duties required in the tenth commandment are, such a full contentment with our own condition, and such …
Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
No man is able, either of himself, or by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep …
What doth every sin deserve at the hands of God?
Every sin, even the least, being against the sovereignty, goodness, and holiness of God, and against his righteous …
What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath …
That we may escape the wrath and curse of God due to us by reason of the transgression …
What is a sacrament?
A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, to signify, seal, and exhibit unto …
How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our …
How do they that worthily communicate in the Lord's supper feed upon …
As the body and blood of Christ are not corporally or carnally present in, with, or under the …
What is prayer?
Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, in the name of Christ, by the help …
For whom are we to pray?
We are to pray for the whole church of Christ upon earth; for magistrates, and ministers; for ourselves, …
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
20
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, …
What doth God require of us, that we may escape his wrath …
To escape the wrath and curse of God, due to us for sin, God requireth of us faith …
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 …
What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow …
The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of …
Which is the second commandment?
The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything …
What is sanctification?
Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the …
What is required in the sixth commandment?
The sixth commandment requireth all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others.
What is forbidden in the sixth commandment?
The sixth commandment forbiddeth the taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbour, unjustly, …
What special act of providence did God exercise toward man in the …
When God had created man, he entered into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect …
What is sin?
Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made …
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 …
Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing …
What is the reason annexed to the fifth commandment?
The reason annexed to the fifth commandment is, a promise of long life and prosperity (as far as …
Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?
No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, …
What doth every sin deserve?
Every sin deserveth God's wrath and curse, both in this life, and that which is to come.
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 …
What is required for the worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper?
It is required of them that would worthily partake of the Lord's Supper, that they examine themselves of …
What is prayer?
Prayer is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will, in the …
What do we pray for in the fourth petition?
In the fourth petition, which is, Give us this day our daily bread, we pray that of God's …
BCO
Book of Church Order (PCA)
38
56-4
56-4. Before baptism, the minister is to use some words of instruction, touching the institution, nature, use, and …
37-4
37-4. When an excommunicated person shall be so affected with his state as to be brought to repentance, …
21-5
21-5. The day appointed for the ordination having come, and the Presbytery being convened, a sermon suitable for …
37-3
37-3. When the court shall be satisfied as to the reality of the repentance of an indefinitely suspended …
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 …
8-2
8-2. He that fills this office should possess a competency of human learning and be blameless in life, …
36-5
36-5. Indefinite suspension from office or the Sacraments should be administered after the manner prescribed for definite suspension, …
36-6
36-6. Excommunication is to be administered according to one or other of the two modes laid down for …
52-2
52-2. Then, after singing a psalm, or hymn, it is proper that, before the sermon, there should be …
56-5
56-5. The minister shall then read the covenant promises: For to you is the promise, and to your …
63-5
63-5. Parents should set an example of piety and consistent living before the family. Unnecessary private visits on …
3-4
3-4. The power of the Church is exclusively spiritual; that of the State includes the exercise of force. …
16-3
16-3. Upon those whom God calls to bear office in His Church He bestows suitable gifts for the …
16-4
16-4. Officers in the Presbyterian Church in America must be above reproach in their walk and Christlike in …
24-6
24-6. The day having arrived, and the Session being convened in the presence of the congregation, a sermon …
27-5
27-5. Scriptural law is the basis of all discipline because it is the revelation of God’s Holy will. …
30-1
30-1. The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, suspension …
30-3
30-3. Suspension from Sacraments is the temporary exclusion from those ordinances, and is indefinite as to its duration. …
33-2
33-2. When an accused person is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately suspended from the sacraments …
34-4
34-4. a. When a minister accused of an offense is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately …
34-8
34-8. A minister under indefinite suspension from his office or deposed for scandalous conduct shall not be restored, …
36-7
36-7. The censure of deposition shall be administered by the moderator in the words following: Whereas, ____________________, a …
37-2
37-2. After any person has been indefinitely suspended from the Sacraments, it is proper that the rulers of …
37-5
37-5. The restoration of a deposed officer, after public confession has been made in a manner similar to …
37-8
37-8. In the restoration of a minister who is under indefinite suspension from the Sacraments, and/or his office, …
38-1
38-1. When any person shall come forward and make his offense known to the court, a full statement …
47-4
47-4. Public worship is Christian when the worshippers recognize that Christ is the Mediator by whom alone they …
47-6
47-6. The Lord Jesus Christ has prescribed no fixed forms for public worship but, in the interest of …
52-4
52-4. Ministers are not to be confined to fixed forms of prayer for public worship, yet it is …
53-5
53-5. By way of application of the sermon the minister may urge his hearers by commandment or invitation …
54-1
54-1. The Holy Scriptures teach that God is the owner of all persons and all things and that …
58-4
58-4. On the day of the observance of the Lord's Supper, when the sermon is ended, the minister …
58-7
58-7. The minister may, in a few words, put the communicants in mind: Of the grace of God, …
63-1
63-1. In addition to public worship, it is the duty of each person in secret, and of every …
63-2
63-2. Secret worship is most plainly enjoined by our Lord. In this duty everyone, apart, should spend some …
63-3
63-3. Family worship, which should be observed by every family, consists in prayer, reading the Scriptures, and singing …
63-4
63-4. Parents should instruct their children in the Word of God, and in the principles of our holy …
63-6
63-6. In the supreme task of religious education, parents should co-operate with the Church by setting their children …