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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
20
Of the Sacraments
There is in every sacrament a spiritual relation, or sacramental union, between the sign and the thing signified: …
Of the Sacraments
The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments rightly used, is not conferred by any power …
Of the Sacraments
Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ …
Of the Sacraments
There are only two sacraments ordained by Christ our Lord in the Gospel; that is to say, Baptism …
Of the Sacraments
The sacraments of the Old Testament, in regard to the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited, were, for …
Of Baptism
Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission …
Of the Lord’s Supper
Private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest or any other alone; as likewise, the denial of …
Of the Lord’s Supper
The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation …
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 Saving Faith
The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is …
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 the Civil Magistrate
The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and sacraments, or the power …
Of Baptism
The outward element to be used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is to be baptized, …
Of Baptism
The sacrament of Baptism is but once to be administered unto any person.
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
That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ’s …
Of the Lord’s Supper
Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this sacrament, do then also, inwardly by faith, really …
Of the Lord’s Supper
Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in this sacrament: yet they receive not the thing …
Of Church Censures
For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
20
What is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's …
It is required of them that receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, that, during the time of …
What is the duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament …
The duty of Christians, after they have received the sacrament of the Lord's supper, is seriously to consider …
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 …
What is a sacrament?
A sacrament is a holy ordinance instituted by Christ in his church, to signify, seal, and exhibit unto …
What are the parts of a sacrament?
The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's …
How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New …
Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's supper.
How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received …
Christ hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administration of this sacrament of the Lord's Supper, …
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 …
Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree?
The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree, in that the author of both is God; the …
Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper differ?
The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper differ, in that baptism is to be administered but once, …
May one who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his …
One who doubteth of his being in Christ, or of his due preparation to the sacrament of the …
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 …
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 third commandment?
The third commandment requires, That the name of God, his titles, attributes, ordinances, the word, sacraments, prayer, oaths, …
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 is Baptism?
Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the …
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 …
What is the Lord's supper?
The Lord's supper is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine …
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 …
May any who profess the faith, and desire to come to the …
Such as are found to be ignorant or scandalous, notwithstanding their profession of the faith, and desire to …
WSC
Westminster Shorter Catechism
13
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 …
What is a sacrament?
A sacrament is an holy ordinance instituted by Christ; wherein, by sensible signs, Christ, and the benefits of …
Which are the sacraments of the New Testament?
The sacraments of the New Testament are, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper.
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 …
What is Baptism?
Baptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the …
What is the Lord's Supper?
The Lord's Supper is a sacrament, wherein, by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, …
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 is faith in Jesus Christ?
Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, whereby we receive and rest upon him alone for salvation, …
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, …
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 …
To whom is Baptism to be administered?
Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, till they profess …
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 …
BCO
Book of Church Order (PCA)
31
30-3
30-3. Suspension from Sacraments is the temporary exclusion from those ordinances, and is indefinite as to its duration. …
37-3
37-3. When the court shall be satisfied as to the reality of the repentance of an indefinitely suspended …
36-5
36-5. Indefinite suspension from office or the Sacraments should be administered after the manner prescribed for definite suspension, …
36-7
36-7. The censure of deposition shall be administered by the moderator in the words following: Whereas, ____________________, a …
37-8
37-8. In the restoration of a minister who is under indefinite suspension from the Sacraments, and/or his office, …
38-3
38-3. a. When a member or officer in the Presbyterian Church in America shall attempt to withdraw from …
Preliminary Principles
II. PRELIMINARY PRINCIPLES The Presbyterian Church in America, in setting forth the form of government founded upon and …
2-2
2-2. This visible unity of the body of Christ, though obscured, is not destroyed by its division into …
3-2
3-2. Ecclesiastical power, which is wholly spiritual, is twofold. The officers exercise it sometimes severally, as in preaching …
4-4
4-4. The ordinances established by Christ, the Head, in His Church are prayer; singing praises; reading, expounding and …
5-10
5-10. Upon organization, the newly elected session should meet as soon as is practicable to elect a stated …
8-5
8-5. When a man is called to labor as a teaching elder, it belongs to his order, in …
8-6
8-6. When a teaching elder is appointed to the work of an evangelist in foreign countries or where …
11-2
11-2. The jurisdiction of Church courts is only ministerial and declarative, and relates to the doctrines and precepts …
12-5
12-5. The church Session is charged with maintaining the spiritual government of the church, for which purpose it …
13-6
13-6. Ministers seeking admission to a Presbytery from other Presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church in America shall be …
14-1
14-1. The General Assembly is the highest court of this Church, and represents in one body all the …
19-1
19-1. To preserve the purity of the preaching of the Gospel, no man is permitted to preach in …
19-15
19-15. Restrictions. The intern may be asked by the moderator of a Session temporarily to chair the meeting …
21-4
21-4. Ordination Requirements and Procedures a. An intern applying for ordination shall be required to present a diploma …
30-1
30-1. The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, suspension …
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 …
36-6
36-6. Excommunication is to be administered according to one or other of the two modes laid down for …
37-2
37-2. After any person has been indefinitely suspended from the Sacraments, it is proper that the rulers of …
47-9
47-9. The Bible teaches that the following are proper elements of worship service: reading of Holy Scripture, singing …
56-4
56-4. Before baptism, the minister is to use some words of instruction, touching the institution, nature, use, and …
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, …
58-8
58-8. As past custom has been found in many parts of the Presbyterian Church, our congregations are urged …
59-1
59-1. Marriage is a divine institution though not a sacrament, nor peculiar to the Church of Christ. It …