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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
74
Of Saving Faith
The grace of faith, whereby the elect are enabled to believe to the saving of their souls, is …
Of Good Works
These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and …
Of Good Works
Works done by unregenerate men, although, for the matter of them, they may be things which God commands, …
Of Good Works
Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of …
Of Saving Faith
By this faith, a Christian believeth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word, for the authority …
Of Good Works
Good works are only such as God hath commanded in His holy Word, and not such as, without …
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 Saving Faith
This faith is different in degrees, weak or strong; may be often and many ways assailed, and weakened, …
Of Good Works
They, who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so …
Of Repentance unto Life
Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of …
Of God’s Eternal Decree
Those of mankind that are predestinated unto life, God, before the foundation of the world was laid, according …
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 Holy Scripture
The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, …
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
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 Repentance unto Life
By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense not only of the danger, but also of …
Of Justification
Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and His righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification; yet is …
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
Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, …
Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
There is but one only, living, and true God: who is infinite in being and perfection, a most …
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 Covenant with Man
Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to …
Of Effectual Calling
All those whom God hath predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased in His appointed and …
Of Justification
God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified: and although they can never fall …
Of the Communion of the Saints
All saints, that are united to Jesus Christ their Head by His Spirit and by faith, have fellowship …
Of Justification
Those whom God effectually calleth, He also freely justifieth; not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning …
Of Creation
It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal …
Of Free Will
Man, by his fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any …
Of Free Will
When God converts a sinner, and translates him into the state of grace, He freeth him from his …
Of Effectual Calling
Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some …
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of …
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 Lawful Oaths and Vows
Whosoever taketh an oath ought duly to consider the weightiness of so solemn an act; and therein to …
Of the Civil Magistrate
God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world, hath ordained civil magistrates, to be, under Him, …
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 Holy Scripture
Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books …
Of the Holy Scripture
We may be moved and induced by the testimony of the Church to a high and reverent esteem …
Of Creation
After God had made all other creatures, He created man, male and female, with reasonable and immortal souls, …
Of Providence
God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, …
Of Providence
God in His ordinary providence maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against …
Of Providence
The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God so far manifest themselves in His providence, that …
Of Providence
As the providence of God doth in general reach to all creatures, so after a most special manner, …
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly …
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 God’s Covenant with Man
This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel: …
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
Christ, in the work of mediation, acteth according to both natures, by each nature doing that which is …
Of Free Will
God hath endued the will of man with that natural liberty, that is neither forced, nor by any …
Of Free Will
Man, in his state of innocency, had freedom and power to will and to do that which was …
Of Free Will
The will of man is made perfectly and immutably free to do good alone, in the state of …
Of Effectual Calling
Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and …
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 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
This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may …
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
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
Prayer, with thanksgiving, being one special part of religious worship, is by God required of all men: and …
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
This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, …
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
A vow is of the like nature with a promissory oath, and ought to be made with the …
Of Lawful Oaths and Vows
It is not to be made to any creature, but to God alone: and that it may be …
Of the Communion of the Saints
This communion which the saints have with Christ, doth not make them, in any wise, partakers of the …
Of the Sacraments
The grace which is exhibited in or by the sacraments rightly used, is not conferred by any power …
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 Synods and Councils
It belongs to synods and councils, ministerially to determine controversies of faith and cases of conscience; to set …
Of Synods and Councils
All synods or councils, since the Apostles’ times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. …
Of the Last Judgment
God hath appointed a day, wherein He will judge the world in righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to whom …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
81
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 the work of creation?
The work of creation is that wherein God did in the beginning, by the word of his power, …
What is justifying faith?
Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and word …
What is repentance unto life?
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and …
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 …
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 is sanctification?
Sanctification is a work of God's grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, …
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 are God's works of providence?
God's works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures; ordering …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 is effectual calling?
Effectual calling is the work of God's almighty power and grace, whereby (out of his free and special …
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 special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?
Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant …
What are the sins forbidden in the first commandment?
The sins forbidden in the first commandment are, atheism, in denying or not having a God; Idolatry, in …
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 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 …
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 …
What are the duties required in the ninth commandment?
The duties required in the ninth commandment are, the preserving and promoting of truth between man and man, …
How doth God execute his decrees?
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the …
Why was it requisite that the Mediator should be God and man …
It was requisite that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should himself be both God …
Which is the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and …
How is the sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified?
The sabbath or Lord's day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day, not only …
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 …
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 …
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 is the word of God?
The holy scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the word of God, the only rule of …
What is God?
God is a Spirit, in and of himself infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient, eternal, unchangeable, …
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 are the decrees of God?
God's decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will, whereby, from all …
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 …
How did God create angels?
God created all the angels spirits, immortal, holy, excelling in knowledge, mighty in power, to execute his commandments, …
How did God create man?
After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female; formed the body of the …
What is God's providence towards the angels?
God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, …
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 …
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 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 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 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 …
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 …
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, …
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 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, …
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 is the preface to the ten commandments?
The preface to the ten commandments is contained in these words, I am the Lord thy God, which …
What are the sins forbidden in the second commandment?
The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, counseling, commanding, using, and anywise approving, any religious …
What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?
The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required; and …
What are the sins forbidden in the fourth commandment?
The sins forbidden in the fourth commandment are, all omissions of the duties required, all careless, negligent, and …
What are the reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to …
The reasons annexed to the fourth commandment, the more to enforce it, are taken from the equity of …
Why are superiors styled Father and Mother?
Superiors are styled Father and Mother, both to teach them in all duties toward their inferiors, like natural …
What are the sins of superiors?
The sins of superiors are, besides the neglect of the duties required of them, an inordinate seeking of …
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 duties required in the sixth commandment?
The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life …
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, …
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 …
What are the sins forbidden in the tenth commandment?
The sins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, discontentment with our own estate; envying and grieving at the …
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 …
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 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 required of those that hear the word preached?
It is required of those that hear the word preached, that they attend upon it with diligence, preparation, …
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 …
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 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 …
Why are we to pray in the name of Christ?
The sinfulness of man, and his distance from God by reason thereof, being so great, as that we …
How doth the Spirit help us to pray?
We not knowing: What to pray for as we ought, the Spirit helps our infirmities, by enabling us …
For what things are we to pray?
We are to pray for all things tending to the glory of God, the welfare of the church, …
How are we to pray?
We are to pray with an awful apprehension of the majesty of God, and deep sense of our …
How is the Lord's prayer to be used?
The Lord's prayer is not only for direction, as a pattern, according to which we are to make …
What doth the preface of the Lord's prayer teach us?
The preface of the Lord's prayer (contained in these words, Our Father which art in heaven,) teacheth us, …
What do we pray for in the first petition?
In the first petition (which is, Hallowed be thy name,) acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that is …
What do we pray for in the third petition?
In the third petition (which is, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,) acknowledging, …
What do we pray for in the fifth petition?
In the fifth petition (which is, Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors,) acknowledging, that we …
What doth the conclusion of the Lord's prayer teach us?
The conclusion of the Lord's prayer (which is, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the …
WSC
Westminster Shorter Catechism
28
What is the work of creation?
The work of creation is, God's making all things of nothing, by the word of his power, in …
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, …
What are God's works of providence?
God's works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and …
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 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 …
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 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 …
Which is the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment is, Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and …
What is God?
God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
How doth God execute his decrees?
God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.
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 …
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 …
What is effectual calling?
Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our …
What is justification?
Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as …
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 third commandment?
The third commandment requireth the holy and reverend use of God's names, titles, attributes, ordinances, Word, and works.
How is the sabbath to be sanctified?
The sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments …
What is forbidden in the fourth commandment?
The fourth commandment forbiddeth the omission or careless performance of the duties required, and the profaning the day …
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 …
What is required in the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment requireth the maintaining and promoting of truth between man and man, and of our own …
What is forbidden in the ninth commandment?
The ninth commandment forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to truth, or injurious to our own, or our neighbour's, good …
What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?
The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our …
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 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 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)
109
21-4
21-4. Ordination Requirements and Procedures a. An intern applying for ordination shall be required to present a diploma …
57-5
57-5. The time having come for the making of a public profession, and those who have been approved …
58-7
58-7. The minister may, in a few words, put the communicants in mind: Of the grace of God, …
56-4
56-4. Before baptism, the minister is to use some words of instruction, touching the institution, nature, use, and …
19-2
19-2. Examination for Licensure. The examination for licensure shall be as follows: a. Give a statement of his …
Preliminary Principles
II. PRELIMINARY PRINCIPLES The Presbyterian Church in America, in setting forth the form of government founded upon and …
20-1
20-1. Before a candidate, or licentiate, can be ordained to the office of the ministry, he must receive …
8-2
8-2. He that fills this office should possess a competency of human learning and be blameless in life, …
21-9
21-9. In the installation of an ordained minister, the following questions are to be substituted for those addressed …
21-11
21-11. In the ordination of interns as evangelists the same questions are to be propounded as in the …
30-3
30-3. Suspension from Sacraments is the temporary exclusion from those ordinances, and is indefinite as to its duration. …
56-5
56-5. The minister shall then read the covenant promises: For to you is the promise, and to your …
58-4
58-4. On the day of the observance of the Lord's Supper, when the sermon is ended, the minister …
14-1
14-1. The General Assembly is the highest court of this Church, and represents in one body all the …
21-5
21-5. The day appointed for the ordination having come, and the Presbytery being convened, a sermon suitable for …
5-9
5-9. A new church can be organized only by the authority of Presbytery. a. A Presbytery should establish …
8-8
8-8. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work as a …
24-1
24-1. Every church shall elect persons to the offices of ruling elder and deacon in the following manner: …
24-6
24-6. The day having arrived, and the Session being convened in the presence of the congregation, a sermon …
29-1
29-1. An offense, the proper object of judicial process, is anything in the doctrines or practice of a …
37-3
37-3. When the court shall be satisfied as to the reality of the repentance of an indefinitely suspended …
37-4
37-4. When an excommunicated person shall be so affected with his state as to be brought to repentance, …
8-4
8-4. As the Lord has given different gifts to men and has committed to some special gifts and …
8-7
8-7. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work with an …
13-2
13-2. A minister shall be required to hold his membership in the Presbytery within whose geographical bounds he …
19-3
19-3. Questions for Licensure. If the Presbytery be satisfied with the trials of the applicant, it shall then …
26-3
26-3. Amendments to the Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms may be made only in …
27-4
27-4. The power which Christ has given the Church is for building up, and not for destruction. It …
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 …
55-1
55-1. It is proper for the congregation of God’s people publicly to confess their faith, using creeds or …
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 …
The Constitution Defined
III. THE CONSTITUTION DEFINED The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in America, which is subject to and subordinate …
1-3
1-3. The members of this visible Church catholic are all those persons in every nation, together with their …
2-1
2-1. The Visible Church before the law, under the law, and now under the Gospel, is one and …
3-5
3-5. The Church, with its ordinances, officers and courts, is the agency which Christ has ordained for the …
5-1
5-1. A mission church may be properly described in the same manner as the particular church is described …
5-2
5-2. Ordinarily, mission churches are established by Presbyteries within their boundaries. a. Initiatives to which the Presbytery may …
6-2
6-2. Communing members are those who have made a profession of faith in Christ, have been baptized, and …
6-3
6-3. All baptized persons are entitled to the watchful care, instruction and government of the church, even though …
6-4
6-4. Those only who have made a profession of faith in Christ, have been baptized, and admitted by …
7-1
7-1. Under the New Testament, our Lord at first collected His people out of different nations, and united …
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 …
13-5
13-5. Ordinarily, only a minister who receives a call to a definite ecclesiastical work within the bounds of …
13-6
13-6. Ministers seeking admission to a Presbytery from other Presbyteries in the Presbyterian Church in America shall be …
13-7
13-7. The Presbytery shall cause to be transcribed, in some convenient part of the book of records, the …
13-9
13-9. The Presbytery has power to receive and issue* appeals, complaints, and references brought before it in an …
13-10
13-10. When a Presbytery determines to dissolve a church, it shall give no less than sixty (60) days …
13-13
13-13. Ministers in good standing in other Presbyteries, or in any evangelical church, being present at any meeting …
14-2
14-2. The General Assembly, which is a permanent court, shall meet at least annually upon its own adjournment. …
14-6
14-6. The General Assembly shall have power: a. To receive and issue* all appeals, references, and complaints regularly …
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 …
16-4
16-4. Officers in the Presbyterian Church in America must be above reproach in their walk and Christlike in …
17-3
17-3. As every ecclesiastical office, according to the Scriptures, is a special charge, no man shall be ordained …
18-3
18-3. The applicant shall appear before the Presbytery in person, and shall be examined by the Presbytery on …
18-5
18-5. For the development of his Christian character, for the service he can render, and for his more …
19-1
19-1. To preserve the purity of the preaching of the Gospel, no man is permitted to preach in …
19-7
19-7. The Holy Scriptures require that some trial be previously made of those who are to be ordained …
19-12
19-12. Presbyteries should require interns to devote themselves diligently to the trial of their gifts; and no one …
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 …
20-3
20-3. When a congregation is convened for the election of a pastor it is important that they should …
20-6
20-6. Form of call: The terms of the call shall be approved by the congregation in the following …
21-1
21-1. No minister, licentiate or candidate shall receive a call from a church but by the permission of …
23-1
23-1. When any minister shall tender the resignation of his pastoral charge to his Presbytery, the Presbytery shall …
24-3
24-3. All communing members in good and regular standing, but no others, are entitled to vote in the …
24-7
24-7. Ordination to the offices of ruling elder or deacon is perpetual; nor can such offices be laid …
25-2
25-2. Whenever it may seem for the best interests of the church that a congregational meeting should be …
26-1
26-1. The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in America, which is subject to and subordinate to the Scriptures …
26-5
26-5. Full organic union and consolidation of the Presbyterian Church in America with any other ecclesiastical body can …
27-3
27-3. The exercise of discipline is highly important and necessary. In its proper usage discipline maintains: a. the …
28-1
28-1. The spiritual nurture, instruction and training of the children of the Church are committed by God primarily …
30-1
30-1. The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, suspension …
31-8
31-8. Great caution ought to be exercised in receiving accusations from any person who is known to indulge …
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 …
35-10
35-10. The records of a court or any part of them, whether original or transcribed, if regularly authenticated …
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 …
38-3
38-3. a. When a member or officer in the Presbyterian Church in America shall attempt to withdraw from …
39-3
39-3. While affirming that the Scripture is “the supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to …
43-1
43-1. A complaint is a written representation made against some act or decision of a court of the …
43-5
43-5. The court against which complaint is made shall appoint one or more representatives to defend its action …
46-1
46-1. When a church member shall remove his residence beyond the bounds of the congregation of which he …
46-7
46-7. No certificate of dismission from either a Session or a Presbytery shall be valid testimony of good …
47-1
47-1. Since the Holy Scriptures are the only infallible rule of faith and practice, the principles of public …
47-2
47-2. A service of public worship is not merely a gathering of God’s children with each other, but …
47-3
47-3. The end of public worship is the glory of God. His people should engage in all its …
47-4
47-4. Public worship is Christian when the worshippers recognize that Christ is the Mediator by whom alone they …
47-9
47-9. The Bible teaches that the following are proper elements of worship service: reading of Holy Scripture, singing …
50-3
50-3. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments shall be read from a good translation, not …
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 …
57-3
57-3. When unbaptized persons apply for admission into the Church, they shall, ordinarily, after giving satisfaction with respect …
57-4
57-4. It is recommended, as edifying and proper, that baptized persons, when admitted by the Session to the …
57-6
57-6. Persons received from other churches by letters of dismissal as well as those being received by reaffirmation …
59-1
59-1. Marriage is a divine institution though not a sacrament, nor peculiar to the Church of Christ. It …
60-1
60-1. The power of the prayer of faith is great, and Christians therefore should make entreaty for the …
61-1
61-1. The services proper for such an occasion are: a. The singing of appropriate psalms or hymns; b. …
62-3
62-3. It should be left to the judgment and discretion of every Christian and family to determine when …
63-2
63-2. Secret worship is most plainly enjoined by our Lord. In this duty everyone, apart, should spend some …