Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 1: Of the Holy scripture
All things in scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 1.7
All things in scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 1.7
All things in Scripture are not alike plaine in themselves, nor alike cleare unto all: yet those things which are necessary to be known, beleeved, and observed for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the Learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 1.7
All things in scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all; yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 1.7, which this paragraph revises
Is the Light of Nature, and the works of Creation and Providence, sufficient to give that knowledge of GOD, and of his Will, which is necessary to Salvation? No. Are the holy…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 1.7, which this paragraph revises
Not all alike plain.—Mysteries in doctrine and varying natural capacities in readers are admitted. The perspicuity attributed to Scripture is relative, on the one hand, to the…
