Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 23: Of the Civil Magistrate
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto; in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each Commonwealth; so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasions.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 23.2
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto; in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each Commonwealth; so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasions.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 23.2
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the Office of a Magistrate; when called thereunto: in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain Piety, Justice, and Peace, according to the wholsom Laws of each Commonwealth; so, for that end, they may lawfully now, under the New Testament, wage War, upon just and necessary occasion.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 23.2
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate, when called thereunto; in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each Commonwealth; so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasions.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 23.2, which this paragraph revises
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On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 23.2, which this paragraph revises
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