Chapter 17.2
ii. This perseverance of the saints depends not upon their own free will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and…
Tag Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 17.1
i. They, whom God hath accepted in his Beloved, effectually called, and sanctified by his Spirit, can neither totally, nor finally, fall away from the state of grace: but shall certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved.…
Chapter 16.3
iii. Their ability to do good works is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ. And that they may be enabled thereunto, beside the graces they have already received, there is required an actual influence…
Chapter 16.2
ii. These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and by them believers manifest their thankfulness, strengthen their assurance, edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the Gospel,…
Chapter 16.1
i. Good works are only such as God has commanded in His holy Word, and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intention. With their typical…
Chapter 15.5,6, part two
v. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly. vi. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to…
Chapter 15.5, 6, part one
v. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly. vi. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to…
Chapter 15.3, 4, part two
iii. Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God’s free grace in Christ; yet it is of such necessity to all sinners,…
Chapter 15.3, 4, part one
iii. Although repentance be not to be rested in, as any satisfaction for sin, or any cause of the pardon thereof, which is the act of God’s free grace in Christ; yet it is of such necessity to all sinners,…
Chapter 15.1, 2
i. Repentance unto life is an evangelical grace, the doctrine whereof is to be preached by every minister of the Gospel, as well as that of faith in Christ. ii. By it, a sinner, out of the sight and sense,…