Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 31: Of Synods and Councils
Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs, which concern the Commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition, in cases extraordinary; or by way of advice for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.
No change, but in spelling and punctuation.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 31.5
Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs, which concern the Commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition, in cases extraordinary; or by way of advice for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 31.5
Synods and Councels are to handle, or conclude nothing, but that which is Ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with Civil Affairs which concern the Commonwealth; unless by way of humble Petition, in cases extraordinary; or, by way of Advice, for satisfaction of Conscience, if they be thereunto required by the Civil Magistrate.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 31.4
Synods and councils are to handle or conclude nothing, but that which is ecclesiastical: and are not to intermeddle with civil affairs, which concern the Commonwealth, unless by way of humble petition, in cases extraordinary; or by way of advice for satisfaction of conscience, if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 31.5, which this paragraph revises
Ought there to be such Assemblies for the Government and further edification of the Church, as are called Synods and Councils? Yes. May not the Ministers of the Church of…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 31.5, which this paragraph revises
While claiming liberty of meeting and discussion for ecclesiastical courts, our church is careful to show that the charge of danger to government, as in the case of an imperium in…
