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Genre/Form: | catechisms Catechisms Creeds Catéchismes Symboles de foi |
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Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
ISBN: | 0902506358 9780902506350 0902506080 9780902506084 |
OCLC Number: | 39457469 |
Notes: | Originally published 1646. First reprinted in this format 1976. |
Description: | 438 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Confession of Faith -- Larger Catechism -- Shorter Catechism -- Sum of saving knowledge: or, a brief sum of Christian doctrine -- Confession of Faith of the Kirk of Scotland : or the National Covenant -- Solemn League and Covenant -- Directory of publick worship of God -- The form of Presbyterial church-government -- Directory for family-worship -- Table of chief matters contained in the Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism. |
Other Titles: | Westminster Confession |
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The finest summary of the Bible available
THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646) is said to be the finest summary of THE HOLY BIBLE available.
" 'The product of Puritan conflict,' stated Shedd, reaching 'a perfection of statement never elsewhere achieved.' All that learning the most profound and extensive, intellect the most...
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THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646) is said to be the finest summary of THE HOLY BIBLE available.
" 'The product of Puritan conflict,' stated Shedd, reaching 'a perfection of statement never elsewhere achieved.' All that learning the most profound and extensive, intellect the most acute and searching, and piety the most sincere and earnest, could accomplish, was thus concentrated in the Westminster Assembly's Confession of Faith, which may be safely termed the 'most perfect statement of Systematic Theology ever framed by the Christian Church,' writes Hetherington in THE HISTORY OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES, p. 345 [<a href="http://www.reformed.org/books/hetherington/west_assembly/index.html%22%3E%3CI%3E(The">http://www.reformed.org/books/hetherington/west_assembly/index.html</a> ] . . . .
THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646) is the greatest of all the creeds of the Christian church. . . .
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