Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 17: Of the Perseverance of the Saints
This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own free-will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, the abiding of the Spirit and of the seed of God within them; and the nature of the covenant of grace: From all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 17.2
This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own free-will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, the abiding of the Spirit and of the seed of God within them; and the nature of the covenant of grace: From all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 17.2
This Perseverance of the Saints, depends not upon their own free-will, but upon the immutability of the Decree of Election flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit, and intercession of Jesus Christ; the abiding of the Spirit, and of the seed of God within them; and the nature of the Covenant of Grace: from all which, ariseth also the certainty, and infallibility thereof.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 17.2
This perseverance of the saints depends, not upon their own free-will, but upon the immutability of the decree of election, flowing from the free and unchangeable love of God the Father; upon the efficacy of the merit and intercession of Jesus Christ, the abiding of the Spirit and of the seed of God within them; and the nature of the covenant of grace: From all which ariseth also the certainty and infallibility thereof.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 17.2, which this paragraph revises
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