Chapter 1 PARAGRAPH 1 The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience,1&nbs ...
1689 confession of faith
Of God and the Holy Trinity
Chapter 2 PARAGRAPH 1 The Lord our God is but one only living and true God;1 whose subsistence is in and of Himself,2 infinite in being ...
Of God’s Decree
Chapter 3 PARAGRAPH 1 God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely and unchangeably, ...
Of Creation
Chapter 4 PARAGRAPH 1 In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,1 for the manifestation of the glory of His eternal p ...
Of Divine Providence
Chapter 5 PARAGRAPH 1 God the good Creator of all things, in His infinite power and wisdom does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures ...
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment Thereof
Chapter 6 PARAGRAPH 1 Although God created man upright and perfect, and gave him a righteous law, which had been unto life had he kept it, and th ...
Of God’s Covenant
Chapter 7 PARAGRAPH 1 The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience to Him as their ...
Of Christ the Mediator
Chapter 8 PARAGRAPH 1 It pleased God, in His eternal purpose, to choose and ordain the Lord Jesus, His only begotten Son, according to the covena ...
Of Free Will
Chapter 9 PARAGRAPH 1 God has endued the will of man with that natural liberty and power of acting upon choice, that it is neither forced, nor by ...
Of Effectual Calling
Chapter 10 PARAGRAPH 1 Those whom God hath predestinated unto life, He is pleased in His appointed, and accepted time, effectually to call,1  ...
Of Justification
Chapter 11 PARAGRAPH 1 Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies,1 not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardonin ...
Of Adoption
Chapter 12 PARAGRAPH 1 All those that are justified, God conferred, in and for the sake of his only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the gr ...