Chapter 21: Of religious worship, and the Sabbath day
Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; but not for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.
Changes from Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 21.4
Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; but not for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.
Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter: but, not for the Dead, nor for those of whom it may be known, that they have sinned the sin unto death.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 21.4
Prayer is to be made for things lawful, and for all sorts of men living, or that shall live hereafter; but not for the dead, nor for those of whom it may be known that they have sinned the sin unto death.
Doth the Light of Nature shew, that there is a GOD, who hath Lordship, and Soveraignty over all? Yes. Is the acceptable way of worshipping the true GOD, instituted by himself, and…
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