Scottish Confession of Faith (1560)
Anonymous's exploration of faith and grace in Christian doctrine and practice.
17 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: We confess and acknowledge one only God, to whom only we must cleave, — Chapter 2: We confess and acknowledge this our God to have created man (to wit,
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Chapter 3: By which transgression, commonly called Original Sin, was the image of — Chapter 4: For this we constantly believe: that God, after the fearful and
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Chapter 5: We most constantly believe that God preserved, instructed, multiplied, — Chapter 6: When the fulness of time came, God sent his Son [27] his Eternal
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Chapter 7: We acknowledge and confess that this most wondrous conjunction betwixt — Chapter 8: For that same Eternal God and Father, who of mere grace elected us in
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Chapter 9: [We confess] That our Lord Jesus Christ offered himself a voluntary — Chapter 10: We undoubtedly believe that, insomuch as it was impossible that the
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Chapter 11: We nothing doubt but that the selfsame body, which was born of the
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Chapter 12: This our faith, and the assurance of the same, proceeds not from flesh
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Chapter 13: So that the cause of good works we confess to be, not our free will,
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Chapter 14: We confess and acknowledge that God has given to man his holy law, in
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Chapter 15: The law of God we confess and acknowledge most just, most equal, most
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Chapter 16: As we believe in one God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; so do we most
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Chapter 17: The elect departed are in peace and rest from their labours: [115] not — Chapter 18: is Discerned from the False
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Chapter 19: As we believe and confess the scriptures of God sufficient to instruct — Chapter 20: and Causes of Their Convention
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Chapter 21: As the fathers under the law (besides the verity of the sacrifices) had
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Chapter 22: That sacraments be rightly ministered, we judge two things requisite:
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Chapter 23: We confess and acknowledge that baptism appertains as well to the — Chapter 24: We confess and acknowledge empires, kingdoms, dominions, and cities to
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Chapter 25: Albeit that the word of God truly preached, and the sacraments rightly
