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Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady The King and Queens Majesties...
THE CONFESSION OF FAITH under written was this day produced...
Chap. i. Of the Holy Scripture
3.THE Books commonly called Apocrypha not being of divine inspiration...
6.The whole counsell of God concerning all things necessary for...
7.ALL things in Scripture are not alike plain in themselves...
8.THE OLD Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language...
9.THE infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture...
10.THE supreme judge by which all controversies of Religion are...
Chap. vi. Of the fall of man of sin and of the punishment thereof
1.OUR first parents being seduced by the subtilty and temptation...
2.BY this sin they fell from their originall righteousness and...
4.FROM this originall corruption whereby we are utterly indisposed disabled...
5.THIS corruption of nature during this life doth remain in...
6.EVERY sin both original and actuall being a transgression of...
Chap. viii. Of Christ the Mediator
4.THIS office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake which...
5.THE Lord Jesus by his perfect obedience and sacrifice of...
6.ALTHOUGH the work of redemption was not actually wrought by...
7.CHRIST in the work of mediation acteth according to both...
8.TO all those for whom Christ hath purchased redemption he...
1.THE Catholick or universall Church which is invisible consists of...
2.THE visible Church which is also catholick or universall under...
3.UNTO this Catholick visible Church Christ hath given the ministry...
4.THIS Catholick Church hath been sometimes more sometimes less visible...
5.THE purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture...
Chap. xxix. Of the Lords Supper
3.THE Lord Jesus hath in this ordinance appointed his ministers...
4.PRIVATE masses or receiving this sacrament by a priest or...
5.THE outward elements in this sacrament duely set apart to...
6.THAT doctrine which maintaines a change of the substance of...
7.WORTHY receivers outwardly partaking of the visible elements of this...
8.ALTHOUGH ignorant and wicked men receive the outward elements in...
Chap. xxxi. Of Synods and Councills
1.FOR the better government and further edification of the Church...
2.AS Magistrates may lawfully call a synod of ministers and...
3.IT belongeth to Synods and Councills ministerially to determine controversies...
4.ALL Synods or Councills since the Apostles times whether generall...
5.SYNODS and councills are to handle or conclude nothing but...
Chap. xxxii. Of the state of men after death and of the Resurrection of the dead
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