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topic_name = Foxe's Book of Martyrs
[[File:St Mary's Gate, Gloucester.jpg|thumb|center|Statue at Gloucester<ref name=NHL>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1245667|desc=Bishop Hooper's Monument|access-date=18 April 2019}}</ref> of Bishop Hooper, with inscription,
"GLORIA SOLI DEO. For the witness of JESUS and for the Word of GOD, not accepting deliverance, JOHN HOOPER … Bishop of Gloucester and Worcester, was burnt to ashes on this spot, February ix, Anno Domini mdlv."]] |
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topic_name = Westminster Confession, Larger Catechism and Shorter Catechism.
*Declaration of faith of Bible-believing protestants, puritans and evangelicals.
*Prepared in 1647 for the English Parliament during the civil war, by English and Scottish Christians [REF to the <ref>1647 (Westminster Confession only, with full Bible texts) https://archive.org/details/humbleadviceofas00west/mode/2up at 2023-08-22. 1651 (all 3 documents, but Bible refs without their text) https://archive.org/details/confessionoff00chur/page/n1/mode/2up at 2023-08-22. 1658 (all 3 documents and full Bible texts) https://archive.org versions, /details/TheHumbleAdviceOfTheAssemblyOfDivinesNowByAuthorityOfParliamentSittingAtWestmins/page/n15/mode/2up at 2023-08-22. 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 give the impression 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 check is of the three answers in the Shorter Catechism concerning the eighth commandment, and specifically of the Bible texts listed by the document. The "1658" and "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.)]</ref>. Enacted in Scottish law as the Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690 [REF].
*The Bible texts are immensely useful.
