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	Sexuality
		The Confession of 1967 is implicitly critical of the condemnation of Protestant-Catholic marriage in the Westminster Confession of 1646, because the 20th century confession leaves open the possibility that such a marriage may be grounded in Christian faith and love.
		Similarly, the Confession of 1967 does not reiterate the teaching of the church concerning divorce, which begins in the first century and is reaffirmed by the Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Unlike the Westminster Confession of 1646, which specifies the contractual right of a partner if there is adultery, the thrust of the statement concerning marriage in the Confession of 1967 is on the church's responsibility to assist men and women in overcoming the alienation from God and others that is prevalent in contemporary culture.
	www.christian-bible.com /ethics/Sex/sexual.htm (1975 words)

	Helvetic Confessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Helvetic Confessions, the name of two documents expressing the common belief of the Reformed churches of Switzerland.
		The first, known also as the Second Confession of Basel, was drawn up at that city in 1536 by Bullinger and Leo Jud of Zürich, Megander of Bern, Oswald Myconius and Grynaeus of Basel, Bucer and Capito of Strassburg, with other representatives from Schaffhausen, St Gall, Mülhausen and Biel.
		The Second Helvetic Confession, also known under its Latin name "Confessio Helvetica posterior", was written by Bullinger in 1562 and revised in 1564 as a private exercise.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Helvetic-Confessions.htm (302 words)

	HELVETIC CONFESSIONS - LoveToKnow Article on HELVETIC CONFESSIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first, known also as the Second Confession of Basel, was drawn up at that city in 1536 by Bullinger and Leo Jud of ZUrich, Megander of Bern,Oswald Myconius and Grynaeus of Basel, Bucer and Capito of Strassburg, with other representatives from Schaffhausen, St Gall, Mhlhausen and Biel.
		Leo Juds German translation was, however, accepted by all, and after Myconius and Grynaeus had modified the Latin form, both versions were agreed to and adopted on the 26th of February 1536.
		The Second Helvetic Confession was written by Bullinger in 1562 and revised in 1564 as a private exercise.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HELVETIC_CONFESSIONS.htm (252 words)

	Jewish Dreams - Prof. David J. Engelsma
		You quote the Second Helvitic's assertion that it is the duty of the magistrate to "suppress heretics" with the cold, steel sword of physical force, as though this contradicts the condemnation of postmillennialism.
		In chapter 30, the Second Helvetic calls on the state to "suppress heretics" and to have "the care of religion (although it begins by saying that "the chief duty of the magistrate is to secure and preserve peace and public tranquillity").
		I did not quote chapter 30 of the Second Helvetic on the duty of the state because my sole concern was to expose and reject postmillennialism as false doctrine in the Reformed churches, regardless of one's view of the duty of the state.
	www.hopeprc.org /reformedwitness/1995/RW199505.htm (3153 words)

	Viewpoint of - February 7, 2002
		Apart from The Second Helvetic Confession, the words only occur in discussions of the Seventh Commandment with regard to adultery, i.e., "The duties required in the Seventh Commandment are: chastity in body, mind, affections, words, and behaviors…." (7.248).
		Second, a chaste life can be led only within one of two contexts: marriage between a man and a woman or singleness (4.108).
		Therefore, it is clear that chastity is not used in the Confessions as a synonym for fidelity in sexual relationships.
	www.presbyweb.com /2002/Viewpoint/0207Germer-Edwards-ChastityInConfessions.htm (361 words)

	Pictures of Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The teaching of the Second Helvetic Confession is noted by leading church historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, where he comments that this chapter was directed against the Byzantine ("Eastern Orthodox") defenders of such images, and also against the Lutherans.
		The Second Helvetic Confession, Ch.4, is using the same argument as Calvin to deny images of Christ: just because He assumed human flesh, that does not mean that man may visibly portray Him in His human flesh.
		The Second Helvetic Confession, however, speaks directly to this issue, where it comments, "Although Christ assumed human nature, yet He did not on that account assume it in order to provide a model for carvers and painters." Just because God acts in a certain way, that does not automatically mean that we can do so.
	www.rcnz.org.nz /resources/fnf/a97.htm (5929 words)

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		We have confessions because of the Scriptural precedent of being confessional.
		John Calvin inspired the writing of Second Helvetic Confession, which, like the famous technical precision of Swiss watches and clocks, describes the specifics of church work and administration.
		The Scots, Second Helvetic and Westminster Confessions all strongly assert the centrality of Scripture.
	www.firstpreswaco.org /pt/confessions.htm (1604 words)

	Reformed churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sub-family of the Reformed churches, called Reformed Baptist churches, adheres to modified Reformed confessions, and have Baptist views of the sacraments and of church government.
		The Hungarian Reformed Church has adopted the Heidelberg Catechism and the Second Helvetic Confession as a definition of their teaching, together the Ecumenical creeds of the Christian Church: Athanasian Creed, Nicene Creed, Chalcedon, and the common creed ("Apostles' Creed").
		The first Reformed churches in France produced the Gallic Confession and French Reformed confession of faith, which served as models for the Belgic Confession of Faith (1563).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reformed (1619 words)

	Free to Believe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Confessions or creeds can be long or short, general or specific, as the need requires.
		Marcion, a Christian living in Rome during the second century, asserted that the God of the Old Testament was tyrannical and that the Old Testament and most of the New Testament was not Scripture.
		The confession is moderate in tone and ecumenical in spirit.
	www.burlpres.org /jbower-08-01-04.html (2751 words)

	Additional citations relating to images, Calvin, Murray, Williamson, Fathers, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The second sin against this commandment is will-worship, consisting in the addition of man's inventions to the worship of God, as a part thereof; Matthew 15:9.
		The second commandment concerns the ordinances of worship, or the way in which God will be worshipped, which it is fit that he himself should have the appointing of." I:358-59.
		We need to guard jealously the position so eloquently expressed in the Westminster Confession: 'God alone is Lord of the conscience, and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men, which are in anything contrary to his word; or beside it, if matters of faith or worship.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/images9.htm (4670 words)

	Reformed churches confessions (from creed) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		In Switzerland, the First (1536) Helvetic Confession and the Second (1566) Helvetic Confession are the most generally accepted.
		The terms “creed” and “confession of faith” are sometimes used interchangeably, but when distinguished “creed” refers to a brief affirmation of faith employed in public worship or initiation rites, while “confession of faith” is generally used to refer to a longer,...
		A synod at Erdod adopted the Lutheran Augsburg Confession in 1545, and by 1567 the Synod of Debrecen adopted the Reformed Heidelberg Catechism and the Second Helvetic Confession.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-66274 (744 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)

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		The classic representative statements of Reformed theology are found in the catechisms and confessions of the Reformed Churches; e.g.
		the French Confession (1559), the Scots Confession (1560), the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England (1562, 1571), the Canons of the Synod of Dort (1619), the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms (1647) and the Formula Consensus Helveticus (1675).
		Second, it is doubtful whether Calvin’s distinctive theology, rooted in biblical exegesis, was properly grasped by many who came later.
	www.shakinandshinin.org /RCP-ReformedTheology.html (1924 words)

	HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
		But the First and Second Helvetic Confessions were adopted by the Swiss and other Churches, and kept their place as symbolical books for nearly three hundred years.
		The new Confession was published at Zürich, March 12, 1566, in both languages, at public expense, and was forwarded to the Elector of the Palatinate and to Philip of Hesse.
		The Helvetic Confession is the most widely adopted, and hence the most authoritative of all the Continental Reformed symbols, with the exception of the Heidelberg Catechism.
	www.renealegre.net /S/Schaff/History/8_ch06.htm (5824 words)

	Print Version: Heinrich Bullinger: Christian Confessor
		Of his many works, one of the better known was the First Helvetic Confession (1536) of which he was one of the principal authors.
		The Second Helvetic Confession is lengthy, running to 76 pages in one English translation, and divided into 30 chapters.
		In the Second Helvetic Confession and in all his work, Bullinger expressed the faith which he regarded as biblical, ancient and catholic — the faith reformed in the sixteenth century according to the Word of God.
	www.wrfnet.org /articles/printarticle.asp?ID=406 (1048 words)

	Book of Confessions -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		compilation of creeds and confessions that was prepared by a committee of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and was adopted by that church in 1967.
		Jeremiah, a Judaean prophet whose activity spanned four of the most tumultuous decades in his country's history, appears to have received his call to be a prophet in the 13th year of the reign of King Josiah (627/626 BC) and continued his ministry until after the siege and capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonians...
		one of the confessions of Lutheranism, a defense and elaboration of the Augsburg Confession, written by the Reformer Philipp Melanchthon in 1531.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9025831 (730 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 23, No. 2 - July 1966 - ARTICLE - The Lord's Supper In the Reformed Confessions
		(The second figure in each reference is to the section, not the line.) In the last of these passages the thought of dishonoring (failing to "discern"!) the Body is linked with the interpretation of a sacramentum as an oath of allegiance: the unbeliever who participates in the Sacrament is a traitor (perfidus).
		If this is a correct reading of the Belgic Confession, then we have to make a further observation on the sacramental theology of the Reformed confessions: not only are different theological types represented in the corpus confessionum as a whole, but there may also be strange combinations within a single confession.
		The major confessions generally insist (against Zwingli) on a sacramental union between the sign and the thing signified, but they are not agreed on the nature of the union.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1966/v23-2-article6.htm (7956 words)

	Sola Scriptura and the Regulative Principle of Worship: Appendix A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Calvin’s teaching regarding worship is clearly reflected in all the various Reformed creeds and confessions: the French Confession (1559), the Scottish Confession (1560), the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), and the Westminster Standards (1643-1648).
		On the second point, when God is worshiped by inventions of men, he condemns this “fear” as superstitious, though men endeavour to cloak it under a plausible pretense of religion, or devotion, or reverence.
		A second refutation is added—that they originated with men, and have not God as their Author; and by this thunderbolt he prostrates and swallows up all traditions of men.
	www.reformed.com /pub/sola_a.htm (7644 words)

	Creeds of Christendom Volume I (ix.ii.v)
		Bullinger composed the Second Helvetic Confession in 1562, in latin, for his own use, as an abiding testimony of the faith in which he had lived and in which he wished to die.
		The new Confession appeared at Zurich, March 12, 1566, in both languages, at public expense, and was forwarded to the Elector and to Philip of Hesse.
		It is sufficient to confess our sins to God in private and in the public service; it is not necessary to confess to a priest, for this is nowhere commanded in the Scriptures; although we may seek counsel and comfort from a minister of the gospel in time of distress and trial (comp.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/creeds1.ix.ii.v.html (10910 words)

	Reformed Confessions Harmonized
		The seven confessions were produced by three different strands among the European churches.
		From the Dutch-German reformers came the Belgic Confession of Faith (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), and the Canons of Dort (1618-19).
		In the harmony section the reformed creeds/confessions used are the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Second Helvetic Confession, Canons of Dort, Westminster Confession, Westminster Shorter Catechism, and Westminster Larger Catechism.
	www.quizbox.com /resources/books/details.aspx?id=080105222X (662 words)

	The Berkley Blog: The Confessions as Evangelistic Policy
		The Second Helvetic Confession: “Generally two peoples are usually counted, namely, the Israelites and Gentiles, or those who have been gathered from among Jews and Gentiles into the Church” (5.129).
		The Confession of 1967: After saying we can learn some things from other religions, it gets to the point: “The gift of God in Christ is for all men.
		And may we use Scripture and our Confessions as our theological position statements, not a provisional study draft without authority, which all too often seems to shy away from what we are called by Scripture and the confessions to proclaim.
	jimberkley.blogspot.com /2005/09/confessions-as-evangelistic-policy.html (1052 words)

	December 23: Bullinger becomes pastor of Zurich
		His 2d Helvetic Confession was the most widely accepted Confession of the Reformation.
		(Helvetia was the Latin name for Switzerland.) The second confession, in fact, was originally drawn up as his own personal statement of faith, but became the most broadly accepted reformed confession, agreed to by reformed movements in half a dozen nations.
		A typical statement from the Second Helvetic Confession is direct and clear.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/12/daily-12-23-2001.shtml (765 words)

	THE SECOND HELVETIC CONFESSION - Historical Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The word "Helvetic" is Latin for "Swiss." The setting of the Second Helvetic Confession is Swiss-German Reformed Protestantism.
		Reflecting the theological maturity of the Reformed churches, the Second Helvetic Confession is moderate in tone and catholic in spirit.
		At the same time, the confession addresses the practical life of the gathered community, detailing matters of worship, church order and conflict, ministry, the sacraments, and marriage.
	www.creeds.net /helvetic/Helvetic_Intro.htm (441 words)

	Christ the King Church - Articles of Faith
		Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451 A. D.); Anathema III, VIII, and X of the Second Council of Constantinople, and the Statement of Faith of the Third Council of Constantinople.; The Scottish Confession of Faith, VI.
		For God's glory and by His eternal plan, Jesus Christ, as the second Adam, the seed of Abraham, and the son of David, fulfilled the law and promises of God spoken through the prophets.
		Belgic Confession, XXII, XXIII, XXIV; New Hampshire Baptist Confession, VI, VII, and VIII; Baptist Faith and Message: Salvation; Second Helvetic Confession, XIV and XV; Canons of Dort — Human Corruption, Conversion to God, and the Way it Occurs, Article XI and The Perseverance of the Saints, Article III; The Council of Orange, Canons 9, 19.
	www.ctkfoxvalley.org /articlesoffaith.asp (2635 words)

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