Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 16: Of Good Works
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, not as though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreproveable in God’s sight; but that he, looking upon them in his son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.6
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, not as though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreproveable in God’s sight; but that he, looking upon them in his son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.6
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of Beleevers being accepted through Christ, their good workes also are accepted in him, not as though they were in this life wholy unblameable and unreproveable in Gods sight; but that, he looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept, and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 16.6
Yet notwithstanding, the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him, not as though they were in this life wholly unblameable and unreproveable in God’s sight; but that he, looking upon them in his son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfections.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 16.6, 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 16.6, which this paragraph revises
The fifth section re-states what has been already commented on under the third and fourth sections. The reasons are more particularly given why the good works of believers cannot…
