Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments
Sacraments are holy signs, and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him; as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world; and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his word.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 27.1
Sacraments are holy signs, and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him; as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world; and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his word.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 27.1
Sacraments are holy Signes, and Seals of the Covenant of Grace, immediately Instituted by God, to represent Christ, and his benefits; and, to confirm our interest in him; as also, to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the World; and, solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his Word.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 27.1
Sacraments are holy signs, and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, to represent Christ and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him; as also to put a visible difference between those that belong unto the church, and the rest of the world; and solemnly to engage them to the service of God in Christ, according to his word.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 27.1, which this paragraph revises
Are the Sacraments holy signs and seals of the Covenant of Grace, immediatly instituted by GOD, to represent Christ, and his benefits; and to confirm our interest in him? Yes. Is…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 27.1, which this paragraph revises
The name sacrament here given to certain symbolical ordinances observed according to Christ’s appointment in the church is not a biblical word. The early Fathers applied the word…
