Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF
Chapter 7: Of God’s Covenant with Man
THE distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.1
THE distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.1
The distance between God and the Creature is so great, that although reasonable Creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their Blessednesse and Reward, but by some voluntary condescension on Gods part, which he hath been pleased to expresse by way of Covenant.
Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 7.1
THE distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of covenant.
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.1, which this paragraph revises
Did all these Sacrifices and other Types, and Ordinances by which the Covenant of Grace was administerd before our Saviours Incarnation, adumbrate, and foresignifie Christ to…
On Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.1, which this paragraph revises
In this statement the Westminster divines have distinctly connected their theological system with that known as the covenant scheme. The Fœderal theology (so called from fœdus, a…
