Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Westminster Assembly and Synod of New York and Philadelphia · PDF

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Chapter 7: Of God’s Covenant with Man

Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called The Covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.

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Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.3

Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called The Covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Paragraph 7.3

Man, by his Fall having made himself uncapable of Life by that Covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a Second, commonly called the Covenant of Grace; Wherein he freely offereth unto sinners Life and Salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them Faith in Him that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto Life, his holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to beleeve.

Westminster Confession of Faith (American revision, 1788), Paragraph 7.3

Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called The Covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved; and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believe.

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