Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 25: Of the Church
This catholick church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and publick worship performed more or less purely in them.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 25.4
This catholick church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and publick worship performed more or less purely in them.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 25.4
This Catholique Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are Members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the Doctrine of the Gospel is taught and imbraced, Ordinances administred, and Publique Worship performed more or less purely in them.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 25.4
This catholick church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the gospel is taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and publick worship performed more or less purely in them.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 25.4, which this paragraph revises
Doth the Catholick, or Universal Church which is invisible, consist of the whole number of Elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ, the head…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 25.4, which this paragraph revises
This statement may be easily and profitably illustrated from the history of the church : that the church is sometimes more, sometimes less visible, from the story of Pagan…
