The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: And some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.
Changes from Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 25.5
The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: And some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.
The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture, and error: and some have so degenerated, as to become no Churches of Christ, but Synagogues of Satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on Earth, to worship God according to his will.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 25.5
The purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error: And some have so degenerated, as to become no churches of Christ, but synagogues of satan. Nevertheless, there shall be always a church on earth, to worship God according to his will.
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