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WCF
Westminster Confession of Faith
31
Of the Church
The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: and some have so degenerated, …
Of the Church
This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are members thereof, …
Of the Church
There is no other head of the Church, but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense, …
Of Church Censures
The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of His Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the …
Of Church Censures
Church censures are necessary, for the reclaiming and gaining of offending brethren, for deterring of …
Of Church Censures
For the better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church are to proceed by admonition; suspension from the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper for …
Of the Church
The catholic or universal Church which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, …
Of the Church
The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation …
Of the Church
Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and …
Of Church Censures
To these officers the keys of the kingdom of heaven are committed: by virtue whereof, they have power respectively to retain, and remit sins; to shut that kingdom …
WLC
Westminster Larger Catechism
28
Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?
All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who are true members of the church invisible.
What is the visible church?
The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places …
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 …
What is the invisible church?
The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be …
What special benefits do the members of the invisible church enjoy by Christ?
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 church have with Christ?
The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their …
What is the communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?
The communion in glory which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is in this life, immediately after death, and at last perfected …
What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy in this life?
The members of the invisible church have communicated to them in this life the firstfruits of glory with Christ, as …
What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death ?
The communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in …
How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament?
Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's supper.
WSC
Westminster Shorter Catechism
1
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 their faith in Christ, and obedience to him; but the infants …
BCO
Book of Church Order (PCA)
229
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 is called Wonderful, Counselor, …
5-9
5-9. A new church can be organized only by the authority of Presbytery. a. A Presbytery should establish …
12-5
12-5. The church Session is charged with maintaining the spiritual government of the church, for which purpose …
24-6
… Having done this, he shall propose to the candidate, in the presence of the church, the following questions, namely: 1. Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and …
25-11
25-11. While a congregation consists of all the communing members of a particular church, and in matters ecclesiastical the actions of such local congregation or church shall be …
13-9
… receive, dismiss, ordain, install, remove and judge ministers; b. To review the records of church Sessions, redress whatever they may have done contrary to order and take effectual care …
14-1
14-1. The General Assembly is the highest court of this Church, and represents in one body all the churches thereof. It bears the title of …
Preliminary Principles
II. PRELIMINARY PRINCIPLES The Presbyterian Church in America, in setting forth the form of government founded upon and agreeable to …
5-2
5-2. Ordinarily, mission churches are established by Presbyteries within their boundaries. a. Initiatives to which the Presbytery may …
21-4
… as approved by the General Assembly and one of the Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in America. No Presbytery shall omit any of these educational requirements except in extraordinary …
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Divines, cruxes, schools, and heads of doctrine
26
Heads of doctrine
Providence
… concourse of secondary causes, God's permission of sin, and the special providence toward the church. Providence is the execution in time of the eternal decree.
The Church (Visible and Invisible)
The catholic church consists of the whole number of the elect. The visible church consists of all …
The Sacraments (General)
… and to confirm our interest in him. They put a visible difference between the church and the rest of the world. The grace exhibited in or by the sacraments …
Church Government and Discipline
The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, has appointed a government in the hand of church officers distinct from the civil …
The Civil Magistrate
… the duty of subjects, and the contested question of the magistrate's role toward the church (the 1646 text vs the 1788 American revision).
Cruxes
The Canon and the Apocrypha
The Assembly drew a sharper line against the Apocrypha than Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles.
The Descent into Hell
What does the Apostles’ Creed’s "descendit ad inferna" mean?
The Perseverance of the Saints
Can the truly regenerate finally fall from grace?
The Grand Debate over Polity
Presbyterian or Independent: who exercises the keys of the kingdom?
The Erastian Question
Does ecclesiastical jurisdiction belong to the church or to the civil magistrate?
Divines
Jeremiah Burroughs
1599–1646
*The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment*; pastoral Independent.
Thomas Fuller
1608–1661
Church historian; "*Worthies of England*"; chaplain to Hopton’s army.
Calybute Downing
1606–1644
Hackney rector; early political theologian of parliamentary resistance.
John Williams
1582–1650
Archbishop of York; Lord Keeper under James I; Laud’s great rival.
Schools & traditions
The Erastians
… argued that ecclesiastical jurisdiction belongs ultimately to the civil magistrate, not to a distinct church court. The Assembly rejected the position decisively — Gillespie's Aaron's Rod Blossoming (1646) is …
The Reformed Episcopal Absentees
The bishops and high-church divines who were named to the Assembly's original ordinance but refused to sit out …
The American Presbyterian Revision (1788)
… WCF XX.4, XXIII.3, and XXXI.2 to align with American disestablishment: the magistrate protects the church but does not prefer one denomination, suppress heresy, or call synods. The Pope-as-Antichrist identification …
The Free Church of Scotland (1843)
When 474 ministers (out of ~1,200) walked out of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 18 May 1843 over the patronage question and state interference in …
The Marrow Men (1717–1722)
… Divinity (1645) in 1700 and republished it with notes, the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland condemned it in 1720, and twelve ministers ('the Twelve Apostles') protested — …