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topic_name = Westminster Confession, Larger Catechism and Shorter Catechism.
[[File:Westminster Confession of Faith title page.jpg|thumb|Westminster Confession of Faith title page]] |
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"The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture." (Westminster Confession, chapter 1, paragraph 10.)
*Details If Christianity is the teaching of trialsChrist and His apostles, accounts of martyrdoms, letters from gaol, etcthen this is an excellent introduction.
* Foxe often names his sources. The title page Declaration of the 1563 edition reads, "… according to the … wrytinges … faith of the parties them selves that sufferedBible-believing protestants, as also out of the Bishops Registers, which were the doers therof…"puritans and evangelicals.
*Prepared in 1647 for the English Parliament during the civil war, by English and Scottish Christians [REF to the 3 archive.org versions, These files can be computer-searched, but some matches may be missed because of the old-fashioned typeface, particularly the vertical letter "s", though that is sometimes found by using an "f" in the searchbox. Some websites claim that they sell or provide the seventeenth century version in modern typeface. Unfortunately a short check indicates that such versions are not the originals, and may be nineteenth century revisions. (The book check is sometimes called of the three answers in the Shorter Catechism concerning the eighth commandment, and specifically of the Bible texts listed by the document. The "1658"Acts and Monuments"1651" versions both list #*1 Tim 5:8, #*Eph 4:28, #*Ex 20:15, #*Lev 25:35, #*Prov 28:19, Deut 22:1-5, Ex 23:4,5, Gen 30:30, Gen 47:14,20, Prov 21:17, Prov 23:20f. The # indicates that the reference is retained in a modern-typeface version which is claimed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CHECK!!!!!!!!!!! by its website to be the seventeenth century version. The * indicates that the reference is retained in a nineteenth-century American version. References which are not so marked are suppressed in both those modern-typeface versions, which also have added other references.)]. Enacted in Scottish law as the Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690 [REF].
*Some material is unsuitable for childrenThe Bible texts are immensely useful.
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