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	Confession and Catechisms
		When the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America was formed in 1788, it adopted (with minor revisions) the Westminster Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms (1647), as its secondary standards (the Bible itself being the only infallible rule of faith and practice).
		Westminster Confession of Faith with Scripture proofs (658 KB)
		A table showing the American Revisions to the Confession of Faith is also available.
	www.opc.org /confessions.html (202 words)

	PCA: COF PREFACE
		The Presbyterian Church in America received the same Confession and Catechisms as those that were adopted by the first American Presbyterian Assembly of 1789, with two minor exceptions, namely, the deletion of strictures against marrying one's wife's kindred (XXIV,4), and the reference to the Pope as the antichrist (XXV,6).
		The Caruthers edition of the Confession and Catechisms, which is based upon the original manuscript written by Cornelius Burgess is the Edition presented to and adopted by the First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America.
		In addition to the Confession, we have included with permission of the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the United States a historical sketch entitled "The Origin and Formation of the Westminster Confession of Faith." This statement was first ordered printed by the 1906 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
	www.pcanet.org /general/cof_preface.htm (360 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Westminster Confession of Faith
		The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition.
		The confession is a systematic exposition of Calvinist orthodoxy (which neo-orthodox (Barthian) scholars routinely refer to as, 'scholastic Calvinism'), influenced by Puritan and covenant theology.
		In 1903, the PCUSA adopted revisions to the Westminster Confession of Faith that were intended to soften the church's commitment to Calvinism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Westminster-Confession-of-Faith (3555 words)

	The Westminster Standards
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters I and II (Of the Holy Scripture, and Of God, and of the Holy Trinity)
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters XXIII-XXVII (Of the Civil Magistrate, Of Marriage and Divorce, Of the Church, Of the Communion of Saints, and Of the Sacraments)
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII (Of Baptism, Of the Lord's Supper, Of Church Censures, Of Synods and Councils, Of the State of Men after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead, and Of the Last Judgment)
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/faith.html (288 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Westminster Confession of Faith is a Reformed confession of faith, in the Calvinist theological tradition.
		The confession is a systematic exposition of Calvinist orthodoxy (which neo-orthodox (Barthian) scholars routinely refer to as, 'scholastic Calvinism'), influenced by Puritan and covenant theology.
		The PCA holds the 1789 American revision of the Westminster Confession as its standard "with two minor exceptions, namely, the deletion of strictures against marrying one's wife's kindred (XXIV,4), and the reference to the Pope as the antichrist (XXV,6)." [1].
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Westminster_Confession (1203 words)

	Westminster Confession of Faith
		For this reason, as a condition for entering into the alliance with England, the Scottish Parliament required of the English that episcopalian government would be abolished in the Anglican church, to be replaced by presbyterian government; and that, the Church of England would consistently adhere to Calvinistic standards of doctrine and worship.
		The Scottish Commissioners who were present at the Assembly were satisfied with the Confession of Faith; and in 1647, the document was sent to the English parliament to be ratified, and submitted to the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk.
		After vigorous debate, the Confession was then in part adopted as the Articles of Christian Religion in 1648, by act of the English parliament, omitting some sections and chapters.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/w/we/westminster_confession_of_faith.html (435 words)

	Westminster Confession - Introduction
		The Westminster Confession of Faith is one document of several commissioned by the English parliament during the English Civil War (1642-1649), in which armies raised by the parliament, in league with Scotland, battled forces loyal to the tyrannical King Charles I and his bishops.
		The Confession was commissioned from an assembly of 121 Puritan clergymen meeting in Westminster Abbey, called the Westminster Assembly, which was convened in 1643 for the purpose of drafting official documents for the reformation of the Church of England.
		The Westminster Confession was adopted entire by the General Assembly of the Scottish Church in 1647 and ratified by the Scottish parliament in 1649.
	www.bible-researcher.com /wescon01.html (1233 words)

	Recent Criticisms of the Westminster Confession of Faith
		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.
		The Confession further affirms (19:4) that the sundry judicial laws God gave Israel as a nation "expired together with the State of that people; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require." Israel was a theocratic nation and was to reflect the requirement that she be a holy people.
	spindleworks.com /library/wcf/ward.htm (6818 words)

	Westminster Confession :: Creeds : Gourt
		A Comparison of the Westminster and the Reformed Confessions - A paper on the differences between the Westminster Confessions and the Three Forms of Unity (The Heidelberg Catechism, The Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dort.)
		Commentary on The Westminster Confession of Faith - A commentary on the confession by A. Hodge.
		Westminster Confession - The Westminster Confession with study resources such as an annotated text, a glossary of terms and a study of changes made over the years.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsociety.gourt.com%2FReligion-and-Spirituality%2FChristianity%2FTheology%2FReformed%2FCreeds%2FWestminster-Confession.html (632 words)

	Christ Covenant Church - Westminster Confession (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Westminster Assembly was appointed by the Parliament.
		Although the Westminster Assembly excluded from their Confession everything they regarded as savoring of Erastianism, yet their views as to church establishments led them to concede power to the civil magistrates concerning religious things, which the fathers of American Presbyterianism would not concede.
		It was felt that the wisest course to be followed was to return to the original American form of the Confession and Catechisms with the two minor deletions mentioned in the Preface for the constitutional documents of the newly formed Church.
	www.christcovenantchurch.info /westminsterconfession.html (8145 words)

	Westminster's Confession
		Westminster Seminary's problem for a generation - indeed, Calvinistic American Presbyterianism's problem for two centuries - has been to justify a commitment to modern religious and political pluralism in terms of the Westminster Confession's judicial standards.
		Westminster's Confession is both a history and a critical analysis of Westminster's decision to scrap the legacy of Van Til.
		Second, he argues that Westminster has abandoned the apologetic theory of Cornelius Van Til, which maintains that between the believer and the unbeliever all ground is common ground, but no ground is neutral ground.
	freebooks.entrewave.com /freebooks/docs/213a_47e.htm (899 words)

	What is Meant by Adopting the Westminster Confession?
		The same is true as to what the Confession teaches concerning the Church, of the communion of saints, of the sacraments, and of the future state, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the final judgment.
		It is this system which the Presbyterian Church is pledged to profess, to defend, and to teach; and it is a breach of faith to God and man if she fails to require a profession of this system by all those whom she receives or ordains as teachers and guides of her people.
		For a man to assert that he adopts a Calvinistic confession when he rejects the distinctive features of the Calvinistic system, and receives only the essential principles of Christianity, is to say what is not true in the legitimate and accepted meaning of the terms.
	www.puritansermons.com /reformed/hodge01.htm (1998 words)

	Cokesbury.com
		Churches of all sizes claim it as their confession, and hold to it with varying degrees of closeness.
		However, countless officeholders will have vowed to abide by the Westminster Confession with only the most perfunctory of understanding of its relevance to their situation.
		In the second of what will be three volumes, the topics covered include: - Westminster Spirituality Westminster and the Regulative Principle Old Princeton Seminary and the Westminster Standards The Influence of the Westminster Confession of Faith on the Korean Presbyterian Church The Eschatology of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Assembly.
	www.cokesbury.com /?pid=1857928784 (159 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Communion of Saints
		The double and often conflicting influence of Luther and Calvin, with a lingering memory of Catholic orthodoxy, is felt in the Anglican Confessions.
		On the other hand, the Westminster Confession, while ignoring the Suffering and the Triumphant Church, goes beyond the Calvinistic view and falls little short of the Catholic doctrine with regard to the faithful on earth, who, it says, "being united to one another in love, have communion in each other's gifts and graces".
		The cause of the perversion by Protestants of the traditional concept of communion of saints is not to be found in the alleged lack of Scriptural and early Christian evidence in favour of that concept; well-informed Protestant writers have long since ceased to press that argument.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04171a.htm (2644 words)

	Reformed Theology and Six Day Creation by Dr. Kenneth Gentry
		In so stating the matter, the Westminster divines picked up on the language of John Calvin, who held to a six-day creation: "For it is too violent a cavil to contend that Moses distributes the work which God perfected at once into six days, for the mere purpose of conveying instruction.
		The Confession of Faith is not a haphazard collection of doctrinal maxims; neither is it a systematic theological approach to doctrine.
		Thus viewed, the Confession of Faith might be so connected with one aspect of Church history as to furnish, if not a text-book according to chronological arrangement, in studying the rise and refutation of heresies, yet a valuable arrangement of their relative importance, doctrinally considered.
	www.the-highway.com /creation_Gentry.html (2839 words)

	Westminster Confession on the Relation Between Church and State
		There is nothing in the twenty-third chapter of this Confession which is inconsistent with these principles, or which sanctions the recent decisions of the civil courts in reference to the Church of Scotland.
		I assume further, that these two positions fully vindicate the principles and proceedings of the church, in so far as concerns her refusal to obey the decisions of the civil courts; and that her principles and proceedings cannot be successfully or plausibly assailed without an explicit denial of these positions.
		The decision of the Legislature may be sufficient to settle the right of the church to the privileges and emoluments of the Establishment; but it cannot have any weight in determining whether or not the church ought to have followed the course which the state approved of, and in a sense enjoined.
	www.naphtali.com /churchstate2.htm (2936 words)

	Westminster and the Days of Creation
		The Faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia) voted on March 1, 1999 to affirm that the Faculty understands the following to be an accurate description of the continuity between the seminary's present position on the days of creation and historic Reformed teaching on this subject.
		The current faculty of Westminster Seminary is profoundly conscious of the inroads of secularism and of the endemic influence of evolutionism.
		In this context the members of the Faculty of Westminster Seminary remain committed to the pursuit of the most accurate understanding of the text of Holy Scripture and the confessional standards of the institution, as they also remain committed to the utter trustworthiness of every word of God the Creator and Redeemer.
	www.wts.edu /news/creation.html (1818 words)

	The Westminster Confession (1646) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Westminster Confession is one of the principal creedal confessions of churches in the Reformed tradition.
		It is also known as the London Confession, while a later slightly modified version that eliminated chapters dealing primarily with church and state issues is known as the Puritan Confession.
		While much of the Reformed tradition is today moving away from five-point Calvinism, especially the predestination aspects, the Westminster Confession remains as one of the most widely accepted of the Reformed Creeds because of its clarity in expressing so many of the tenants central to the Reformation.
	www.cresourcei.org /creedwestminster.html (5358 words)

	westminster confession of faith information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters I and II (Of the Holy...
		This text of the Westminster Confession of Faith is is derived from a 1646 manuscript edited by S...
		Revisions were introduced into Confession of Faith in 1789 when the Presbyterian...
	www.property-gd.com /articles/80/westminster-confession-of-faith.html (421 words)

	The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century (vol. 1), J. Ligon Duncan III \| South Woods Bookstore
		The Westminster Confession is a foundational document for countless churches worldwide.
		The aim is simple--to enable the 21st Century to understand the confession more fully, and so bring about the same kind of rugged, vigorous, intelligent and self-sacrificing Christianity that was the result of its initial publication over 350 years ago.
		In the first of what will be three volumes, the topics covered include: Baptists and the Westminster Confession, Finney's attack on the Westminster Confession, The Westminster Confession and the Relationship of Church and State, The Holy Spirit and the Westminster Confession.
	www.southwoodsbookstore.com /books/westminsterinto21.htm (308 words)

	Westminster Confession of Faith - Information from Reference.com
		The main Presbyterian Confession of Faith, adopted by the Westminster Assembly, England, in 1643.
		The first American Presbyterian ministers were New England Congregationalists, whose congregations originated with the migration from New England to the Dutch colony as early as the 1640s, and Presbyterian immigrants from Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
		The PCA holds the 1789 American revision of the Westminster Confession as its standard "with two minor exceptions, namely, the deletion of strictures against marrying one's wife's kindred (XXIV,4), and the reference to the Pope as the antichrist (XXV,6)."
	www.reference.com /search?q=Westminster+Confession+of+Faith (1276 words)

	Westminster Confession of Faith
		Note: In 1677, the Second London Confession of Faith eliminated several chapters near the end that tended to mix Church and state, and those Chapters are noted appropriately in the outline below.
		Laing, ed., The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie; S. Carruthers, The Westminster Confession for Today; W. Hetherington, History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines; A. Mitchell and J. Struthers, Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly; J. Murray, "The Theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith," in Scripture and Confession, ed.
		The theology of the catechisms is the same as that of the confession.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/westmin.htm (1086 words)

	Westminster Confession of Faith
		Note: In 1677, the Second London Confession of Faith eliminated several chapters near the end that tended to mix Church and state, and those Chapters are noted appropriately in the outline below.
		Laing, ed., The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie; S. Carruthers, The Westminster Confession for Today; W. Hetherington, History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines; A. Mitchell and J. Struthers, Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly; J. Murray, "The Theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith," in Scripture and Confession, ed.
		The theology of the catechisms is the same as that of the confession.
	www.mb-soft.com /believe/txh/westmin.htm (1086 words)

	Catechisms, Confessions of Faith, Westminster Confession, 1689 London Baptist Confession.
		Catechisms and Confessions of Faith have been used for centuries by Christian families as one of the best tools for imparting knowledge of the great truths of the faith.
		This exposition was originally published in 1989 to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of the Second London Confession, which also became known as the ‘1689 Baptist Confession of Faith’.
		The Westminster Confession is a foundational document for the church, for all time; its influence cannot be underestimated.
	www.graceandtruthbooks.com /catechisms (1639 words)

	Notes on the Westminster Confession
		But just before Guido de Bres wrote "his" confession, the Reformed churches in France had already in their synod of Paris in 1559 drafted and accepted their "own" confession (using an outline which was made by John Calvin to serve the French churches).
		In the closing articles of the Westminster Confession on the church, the sacraments, the resurrection of the body and the last judgment, there is again an obvious resemblance with the articles 27-37 of the Belgic Confession.
		This Confession is also in line with Scripture when explaining that immediately after death the great separation takes place: the believers being received into heaven there waiting for the full redemption, and the unbelievers being cast into hell and utter darkness, being reserved to the judgment of the great day.
	www.rtrc.net /westminster/commentaries/notes.htm (8660 words)

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