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		We confess and acknowledge that the law of God is most just, equal, holy, and perfect, commanding those things which, when perfectly done, can give life and bring man to eternal felicity; but our nature is so corrupt, weak, and imperfect, that we are never able perfectly to fulfill the works of the law.
		Further, we confess and acknowledge that such persons as are set in authority are to be loved, honored, feared, and held in the highest respect, because they are the lieutenants of God, and in their councils God himself doth sit and judge.
		We acknowledge and confess that many weeds and tares are sown among the corn and grow in great abundance in its midst, and that the reprobate may be found in the fellowship of the chosen and may take an outward part with them in the benefits of the Word and sacraments.
	www.confessingchurch.homestead.com /scots.html (4186 words)

	The New Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Confessions and declarations are subordinate standards in the church, subject to the authority of Jesus Christ, the Word of God, as the Scriptures bear witness to him.
		The purpose of the Confession of 1967 is to call the church to that unity in confession and mission which is required of disciples today.
		Confession of sin is admission of all men's guilt before God and of their need for his forgiveness.
	www.americanpresbyterianchurch.org /the_new_confession.htm (4395 words)

	Religious Confession, Confessions of Faith
		Although confession of sin is to be made to God alone (Luke 18:13), on occasion believers are encouraged to share their confession with one another (James 5:16).
		In 1540 Melancthon revised the confession to be acceptable to Calvin.
		The London Baptist Confession of Faith, with scripture proofs, was adopted by the Ministers and Messengers of the General Assembly which met in 1689.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txo/confes.htm (1444 words)

	Recent Criticisms of the Westminster Confession of Faith
		The Confession as adopted by the Church of Scotland in 1647 and adhered to by the Formula of Subscription of 1711 is taken as the standard form of the Confession.
		The Westminster Confession was not written over a few days in the heat of battle, as was the Scots confession (1560), nor by one man, as was the Belgic Confession (1561), nor to counter new heresy, as were the Canons of the Synod of Dort (1618 -19).
		It is the intention of this paper to survey criticisms of the WCF on the basis of the teaching of the Confession as accepted by the Church of Scotland in 1647 and vindicated by the Free Church of Scotland upon her formation in 1843.
	spindleworks.com /library/wcf/ward.htm (6818 words)

	The Scots Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By whom we confess and believe all things in heaven and earth, visible and invisible to have been created, to be retained in their being, and to be ruled and guided by his inscrutable providence for such end as his eternal wisdom, goodness, and justice have appointed, and to the manifestation of his own glory.
		We acknowledge and confess that this wonderful union betwee the Godhead and the humanity in Christ Jesus did arise from the eternal and immutable decree of God from which all our salvation spirngs and depends.
		We confess and acknowledge that God has given to man his holy law, in which not only all such works as displease and offend his godly majesty are forbidden, but also those which please him and which he has promised to reward are commanded.
	www.electricscotland.com /bible/scots_confession.htm (4105 words)

	The Scots' Confession (1560) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Scots' Confession was written in 1560 at the direction of the Scottish parliament.
		We confess and acknowledge that our God has created man, to wit our first father, Adam, after his own image and likeness, to whom he gave wisdom, lordship, justice, free will, and self-consciousness, so that in the whole nature of man no imperfection could be found.
		Notwithstanding the distance between his glorified body in heaven and mortal men on earth, yet we must assuredly believe that the bread which we break is the communion of Christ's body and the cup which we bless the communion of his blood.
	www.cresourcei.org /creedscots.html (2845 words)

	Confessions
		Writing confessions while listening to varied voices in the church and thinking about how the reception of what we write can be positive rather than threatening, is one which less word-focused cultures are likely to think of as exhausting if not irrelevant.
		It is also of the nature of the case that confessions divide as well as unite, and it is not always easy to know what to do with the diversity generated by the process.
		The Confessors as well as the Confessions of the past still have something to teach us, and if our confessions are as much about spiritual wells as theological fences we may succeed in giving people words which enable us to affirm faith in Christ together in our time.
	www.schoolofministry.ac.nz /reformed/confessions.htm (715 words)

	Scots Confession - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Scots Confession was written in 1560 by six leaders of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, coincidentally all named "John".
		The Confession was the first Book of Faith for the Protestant Scottish Kirk.
		Although the Confession and its accompanying documents were truly the product of the joint effort of the six Johns, its authorship is customarily attributed to John Knox.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scots_Confession (120 words)

	Why I Believe in The Reformed Doctrine of Scripture.
		The confession was penned by Henrich Bullinger on the request of Friedrich III (Douglas 459).
		As well, the Confession recognizes that though absolutely true, the Scriptures are not exhaustively true; i.e., that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, government of the church etc., which are not specifically addressed and must be ordered according to general rules, rather than specific precept (vi.).
		The Confession also introduces the doctrine of perspicuity; i.e., that though not all things in Scripture are easy to apprehend, all things necessary for salvation are clearly stated so that even the unlearned may attain a sufficient understanding.
	www.lakeside-church.org /Pos_Papers/pos_reformed_scripture.htm (2231 words)

	The Scots Confession of Faith
		The Scots Confession remained the official confession of the Scottish Reformed Church until it adopted the Westminster Confession of Faith in 1647.
		Though the Scots Confession lacks the systematic thoroughness of the larger Westminster Confession, it is a fresh document that bears witness to the living faith of the Scottish reformation.
		Henderson, ed., The Scots Confession 1560; P. Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, III, 479-85; J. Burleigh, A Church History of Scotland; K. Barth, The knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/scotconf.htm (562 words)

	What Presbyterians Believe, June 1996: Confessions
		We have confessions because of the Scriptural precedent of being confessional.
		We have confessions because we are fallible human beings, prone to error, and inclined to forget who and whose we are.
		The Scots Confession condemned such medieval church abuses as the selling of indulgences, in which church members could pay sums of money to atone for sins prior to committing them.
	www.pcusa.org /today/archive/believe/wpb9606.htm (1525 words)

	www.fpcr.org. 1560 Scots Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So that the cause of good works we confess to be, not our free will, but the Spirit of the Lord Jesus who, dwelling in our hearts by true faith, brings forth such good works as God has prepared for us to walk into.
		We confess and acknowledge that baptism appertains as well to the infants of the faithful, as unto those that be of age and discretion.
		And therefore we confess and avow, that such as resist the supreme power (doing that thing which appertains to his charge), do resist God's ordinance, and therefore cannot be guiltless.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/1560SC.htm (1794 words)

	Christ Church Constitution
		One purpose of a Confession is to supply terms of doctrinal accountability to church officers (I Timothy 6).
		We confess our view that these confessions faithfully represent of Scripture, but we do this, not as a means of dividing with Christians who differ, but rather to make a faithful and charitable testimony of what we believe Scripture to teach.
		We therefore approve the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism for use in doctrinal accountability for officers of the church.
	www.christkirk.com /Literature/BookofConfessionsDraft.asp (1510 words)

	Scottish Confession of Faith (1560)
		And since the latter standards are among the offspring of the former Confession, all persons of the Reformed faith should find it profitable to study the Scottish Confession of 1560.
		Which, albeit we confess are neither given unto us at that only time, neither yet by the proper power and virtue of the sacrament only; yet we affirm that the faithful, in the right use of the Lord's table, have such conjunction with Christ Jesus,[8] as the natural man cannot apprehend.
		And further, we affirm that whosoever denies unto them their aid, counsel and comfort, while the princes and rulers vigilantly travail in the execution of their office, that the same men deny their help, support and counsel to God, who, by the presence of his lieutenant, craves it of them.
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualNLs/ScotConf.htm (2072 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The confessions logically, systematically, and often passionately state the truths of Scripture in a form shaped both by the Scripture they point to and stem from, and the culture of the day in which they were written.
		The confessions were an act of faith by the churches of that particular time as well as an effort to show the distinctly Reformed aspects of faith.
		This particular confession reflects the time of the formation of the Scottish church and the joy that accompanied the particular results of the Reformation at the conclusion of their civil war.
	www.newwineconvo.com /White_Paper_on_CONFESSIONS.doc (672 words)

	Presbyterianism - MSN Encarta
		Although Presbyterian and Reformed churches regard the Bible as the supreme authority for the church and the individual believer, they are also known as “confessional” churches because of their effort to write confessions that define and guide the theology and practice of the church.
		The most important early confessions were the First Helvetic Confession (1536), the Scots Confession (1560), the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), the Canons of the Synod of Dort (1619), and the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism (1647).
		Presbyterian worship has always allowed for considerable flexibility in forms and practices, but it is based on Calvin's definition of the essential characteristics of the church being the faithful proclamation of the gospel and the celebration of the sacraments.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567392_2/Presbyterianism.html (656 words)

	The Word of God and ‘Human Creeds’
		A Confession will probably become more full in the light of fresh disputes or heresies which require a response, but it can never be a kind of definitive commentary on every passage of Scripture.
		A FOURTH function of a Confession of Faith is to be a solemn bond for the office-bearers of the Church.
		If she discovers that such has occurred she is bound to change, as the framers of the Scots Confession of 1560 (replaced by Westminster in 1647) pointedly stated, and as was reaffirmed in 1847 by the Free Church of Scotland Assembly when it approved the Constitutional Catechism.
	spindleworks.com /library/ward/creeds.htm (3455 words)

	Confession of Faith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Confession of Faith is a statement of doctrine very similar to a creed, but usually longer and polemical, as well as didactic.
		Confessions of Faith are in the main, though not exclusively, associated with Protestantism.
		In Wales, Christian doctrines were expressed in the Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists (Presbyterians) of Wales, 1823.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Confession_of_faith (283 words)

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		It is this confession to which I would like to turn this morning, for this confession does not only talk about such things as the sovereignty of God and election and predestination, it also offers a definition of the “true” church, or as it is called in Scotland, the “kirk”.
		No, in the Scots Confession the definition of a true church is this: “First, the true preaching of the word of God in which God has revealed himself to us.
		As the Scots Confession states, “Jesus in the Lord’s Supper is so joined with us that he becomes the very food and nourishment of our souls and he remains in us and we remain in him.” That is why the sacraments were so important to our ancestors from Scotland.
	salisburypc.org /Worship/kirk.doc (2654 words)

	Richard Muller on Confessing the Reformed Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The various confessing groups recognized each other as belonging to the same family of faith, without feeling the need to subscribe to each other's confessions or to prove at length that the teaching of any one confession was identical with that of all the others.
		The closest that the Reformed churches have ever come to a single book of confessions, shared by all was in 1580, when the Genevan theologians produced the Harmony of the Reformed Confessions, a document based on the Second Helvetic Confession and including quotations from all of the major Reformed confessions of the age.
		Only by declaring the confessions, by using them in the contexts of preaching, of teaching, and of corporate worship, can they fulfill their intended role as positive guides, arising out of the faith of the church in its meditation on Scripture, to the ongoing work of the Reformed churches.
	public.csusm.edu /guests/rsclark/muller.html (3567 words)

	THE CREEDS AND CONFESSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (
		The emphasis of the Westminster Confession is on the doctrines of the church; the Catechisms were for the education of children and adults confirmands.
		The ‘Confessing Church’ gathered in Barmen to compose this document in 1934.
		The Confession of 1967: Composed by Presbyterians from the former Northern branch of American Presbyterianism, its aim was to restate the historic positions of the Reformed church in light of the secular upheavals of the 1960’s.
	www.cedartownfirst.com /creeds.htm (583 words)

	CR&E Introduction to Sola Scriptura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We confess that this Word of God was not sent, nor delivered by the will of man, but that holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, as the apostle Peter saith.
		We believe and confess the canonical Scriptures of the holy prophets and apostles of both Testaments to be the true Word of God, and to have sufficient authority of themselves, not of men.
		Hence the Holy Scriptures are the sole source from which all doctrines proclaimed in the Christian Church must be taken and therefore, too, the sole rule and norm by which all teachers and doctrines must be examined and judged.
	www.jude3.net /sshist.htm (3350 words)

	Reformation Scotland - John Knox
		In late 1555 and early 1556 he was in Scotland again and encouraged Scots to separate from the Roman Church.
		Knox' preaching is credited with a large influence behind Parliament's passing of an act abolishing Papal jurisdiction and approving the Confession of Faith as a basis for belief in Scotland.
		Also, The Scots Confession was written by John Knox and five colleagues in 1560 at the conclusion of the Scottish Civil War at the behest of parliament.
	thecapitalscot.com /reform/3knox.html (520 words)

	The Difference Between Low Church and High Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While the Protestant confessions that emerged from the Reformation dealt with the theological issues, they also attempted to define the church in distinction from Catholic practices of worship that were seen at best as improper and at worst as heretical.
		For example the language of the Westminster Confession of the Puritans is especially pointed in declaring that “the Popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ's one only sacrifice, the only propitiation for all the sins of the elect.” (Westminster Confession, Chapter 29.2.
		Of the Lord's Supper; note the Scots Confession Chapter 18 - The Notes by Which the True Kirk Is Discerned from The False, and Who Shall Be Judge of Doctrine).
	www.cresourcei.org /lowhighchurch.html (1702 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Knox appealed to the English Reformers as well as the Scots, teaching and preaching (the two were often the same in Scotland in the 16th Century) in the court of Edward VI.
		The Mass was forbidden, and Protestantism was established with the approval of a Confession of Faith.
		Mary, Queen of Scots, was consort to Francis II of France, and French support in Scotland grew to aid the overthrow of Elizabeth.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=106 (962 words)

	The Scots Confession - Historical Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Scots Confession was written at a turning point in the history of the Scottish nation.
		To the Scots, this favorable conclusion to the civil war with Mary's French-supported forces represented a providential deliverance.
		While affirming that the Bible is the norm by which the kirk judges itself, the Scots Confession also sees the Scriptures as a sacred history in which the present day church, through the Holy Spirit, participates until the end of time.
	www.creeds.net /reformed/Scots/intro.htm (381 words)

	Bethel Presbyterian - Beliefs
		Our most recent confession, A Brief Statement of Faith, emerged from the 1983 reunion of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (mostly in the North) and the Presbyterian Church of the United States (mostly in the South).
		This creed’s first century doctrine was probably a personal confession made at the time of baptism.
		It remained the confession of the Church of Scotland until it was replaced a century later by the Westminster Confession of Faith.
	www.bethelpcusa.org /beliefs.html (716 words)

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