Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 16: Of Good Works
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, stop the mouths of the adversaries and glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto; that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.2
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, stop the mouths of the adversaries and glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto; that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.2
These good works, done in obedience to Gods Commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith: and, by them, Beleevers manifest their thankfullnesse, strengthen their assurance, edifie their Brethren, adorn the profession of the Gospel, stop the mouthes of the adversaries, and glorifie God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto; that, having their fruit unto holinesse, they may have the end, eternall life.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 16.2
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, stop the mouths of the adversaries and glorify God, whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto; that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.2, which this paragraph revises
Are Good Works onely such, as GOD hath commanded in his holy Word, and not such as without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, upon any pretence of good…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.2, which this paragraph revises
This section treats of the place and uses of good works. The statement here given is very decidedly opposed to a false legalist doctrine, as well as to all Antinomian extremes.…
