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A96226	The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now by authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning a confession of faith, presented by them lately to both houses of Parliament. A certain number of copies are ordered to be printed only for the use of the members of both houses and of the Assembly of Divines, to the end that they may advise thereupon.; Westminster Confession of Faith.	Westminster Assembly (1643-1652)	1646 (1646)	Wing W1427; Thomason E368_3; ESTC R201270	24,629	58

one and the same with the justification of Beleevers under the new Testament CHAP. XII Of Adoption ALl those that are justified God vouchsafeth in and for his only Son Jesus Christ to make partakers of the grace of Adoption by which they are taken into the number and enjoy the liberties and priviledges of the children of God have his Name put upon them receive the spirit of Adoption have accesse to the Throne of Grace with boldnesse are inabled to cry Abba Father are pitied protected provided for and chastened by him as by a Father yet never cast off but sealed to the day of redemption and inherit the promises as heyres of everlasting salvation CHAP. XIII Of Sanctification THey who are effectually called and Regenerated having a new heart and a new spirit created in them are further sanctified really and personally through the vertue of Christs death and resurrection by his Word and Spirit dwelling in them the Dominion of the whole body of sin is destroyed and the severall lusts thereof are more and more weakned and mortified and they more and more quickned and strengthened in all saving graces to the practise of true holinesse without which no man shall see the Lord. II. This Sanctification is throughout in the whole man yet imperfect in this life there abiding still some remnants of corruption in every part whence ariseth a continuall and irreconcileable warre the flesh lusting against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh III. In which warre although the remaining corruption for a time may much prevail yet through the continuall supply of strength from the sanctifying Spirit of Christ the regenerare part doth overcome and so the Saints grow in grace perfecting holinesse in the fear of God CHAP. XIV Of Saving Faith THe grace of Faith whereby the elect are inabled to beleeve to the saving of their soules is the work of the Spirit of Christ in their hearts and is ordinarily wrought by the Ministry of the Word by which also and by the administration of the Sacraments and prayer it is increased and strengthened II. By this Faith a Christian beleeveth to be true whatsoever is revealed in the Word for the authority of God himself speaking therein and acteth differently upon that which each particular passage thereof containeth yeelding obedience to the Commands trembling at the threatnings and imbracing the Promises of God for this life and that which is to come But the principall Acts of saving faith are Accepting Receiving and Resting upon Christ alone for Justification Sanctification and Eternall life by vertue of the Covenant of Grace III. This Faith is different in degrees weak or strong may be often and many waies assailed and weakned but gets the victory growing up in many to the attainment of a full assurance through Christ who is both the Author and finisher of our faith CHAP. XV. Of Repentance unto life REpentance unto life is an evangelicall grace the Doctrine whereof is to be preached by every Minister of the Gospel as well as that of faith in Christ II. By it a sinner out of the sight and sense not only of the danger but also of the filthinesse and odiousnesse of his sins as contrary to the holy nature and righteous Law of God and upon the apprehension of his mercy in Christ to such as are penitent so grieves for and hates his sins as to turn from them all unto God purposing and endeavouring to walk with him in all the wayes of his Commandements III. Although Repentance be not to be rested in as any satisfaction for sin or any cause of the pardon thereof which is the act of Gods free grace in Christ yet is it of such necessity to all sinners that none may expect pardon without it IV. As there is no sin so small but it deserves damnation so there is no sin so great that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent V. Men ought not to content themselves with a generall repentance but it is every mans duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly VI. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to God praying for the pardon thereof upon which and the forsaking of them he shall finde mercy so he that scandalizeth his Brother or the Church of Christ ought to be willing by a private or publique confession and sorrow for his sin to declare his repentance to those that are offended who are thereupon to be reconciled to him and in love to receive him CHAP. XVI Of Good Works GOod Works are only such as God hath commanded in his holy Word and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blinde zeal or upon any pretence of good intention II. These good works done in obedience to Gods Commandments are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith and by them Beleevers manifest their thankfullnesse strengthen their assurance edifie their Brethren adorn the profession of the Gospel stop the mouthes of the adversaries and glorifie God whose workmanship they are created in Christ Jesus thereunto that having their fruit unto holinesse they may have the end eternall life III. Their ability to doe good works is not at all of themselves but wholly from the Spirit of Christ And that they may be inabled thereunto besides the graces they have already received there is required an actuall influence of the same holy Spirit to work in them to will and to doe of his good pleasure yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent as if they were not bound to perform any duty unlesse upon a speciall motion of the Spirit but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them IV. They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life are so farre from being able to supererogate and to doe more than God requires as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to doe V. We cannot by our best Works merit pardon of sin or eternall life at the hand of God by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come and the infinite distance that is between us and God whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfie for the debt of our former sins but when we have done all we can we have done but our duty and are unprofitable servants and because as they are good they proceed from his Spirit and as they are wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much weaknesse and imperfection that they cannot endure the severity of Gods judgement VI. Yet notwithstanding the persons of Beleevers being accepted through Christ their good workes also are accepted in him not as though they were in this life wholy unblameable and unreproveable in Gods sight but that he looking upon them in his Son is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere although accompanied with

to Take the Cup and they communicating also themselves to give both to the Communicants but to none who are not then present in the Congregation IV. Private Masses or receiving this Sacrament by a Priest or any other alone as likewise the denial of the Cup to the people worshiping the Elements the lifting them up or carrying them about for adoration and the reserving them for any pretended religious use are all contrary to the nature of this Sacrament and to the Institution of Christ V. The Outward Elements in this Sacrament duly set apart to the uses ordained by Christ have such relation to him crucified as that truly yet Sacramentally only they are sometimes called by the name of the things they represent to wit the Body and Blood of Christ albeit in substance and nature they still remain truely and only Bread and Wine as they were before VI. That Doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of Bread and Wine into the substance of Christs Body and Blood commonly called Transubstantiation by Consecration of a Priest or by any other way is repugnant not to Scripture alone but even to common Sense and Reason overthroweth the nature of the Sacrament and hath been and is the cause of manifold Superstitions yea of gross Idolatries VII Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the Visible Elements in this Sacrament do then also inwardly by faith really and indeed yet not carnally and corporally but Spiritually receive and feed upon Christ crucified and all benefits of his death The Body and Blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally in with or under the Bread and Wine yet as really but Spiritually present to the Faith of Believers in that Ordinance as the Elements themselves are to their outward senses VIII Although ignorant and wicked men receive the outward Elements in this Sacrament yet they receive not the Thing signified thereby but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord to their own damnation Wherefore all ignorant and ungodly persons as they are unfit to enjoy communion with him so are they unworthy of the Lords Table and cannot without great sin against Christ while they remain such partake of these Holy Mysteries or be admitted thereunto CHAP. XXX Of Church Censures THe Lord Jesus as King and Head of his Church hath therein appointed a Government in the hand of Church Officers distinct from the Civil Magistrate II. To these Officers the Keys of the Kingdom of of Heaven are committed by vertue whereof they have power respectively to retain and remit sins to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent both by the Word and Censures and to open it unto penitent sinners by the Ministry of the Gospel and by Absolution from Censures as occasion shall require III. Church Censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of offending Brethren for deterring of others from the like offences for purging out of that Leaven which might infect the whole Lump for vindicating the honour of Christ and the holy profession of the Gospel and for preventing the wrath of God which might justly fall upon the Church if they should suffer his Covenant and the Seals thereof to be prophaned by notorious and obstinate offenders IV. For the better attaining of these ends the Officers of the Church are to proceed by Admonition suspension from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper for a season and by Excommunication from the Church according to the nature of the crime and demerit of the Person CHAP. XXXI Of Synods and Councels FOr the better Government and further edification of the Church there ought to be such Assemblies as are commonly called Synods or Councels II. As Magistrates may lawfully call a Synod of Ministers and other fit Persons to consult and advise with about matters of Religion So if Magistrates be open Enemies to the Church the Ministers of Christ of themselves by vertue of their Office or they with other fit persons upon delegation from their Churches may meet together in such Assemblies III. It belongeth to Synods and Councels ministerially to determine Controversies of Faith and cases of Conscience to set down Rules and Directions for the better Ordering of the publique Worship of God and Government of his Church to receive Complaints in Cases of Male-administration and authoritatively to Determine the same which Decrees and Determinations if consonant to the Word of God are to be received with reverence and submission not only for their agreement with the Word but also for the Power whereby they are made as being an Ordinance of God appointed thereunto in his Word IV. All Synods or Councels since the Apostles times whether general or particular may erre and many have erred Therefore they are not to be made the Rule of Faith or practise but to be used as an Help in both V. 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 CHAP. XXXII Of the State of men after death and of the Resurrection of the dead THe Bodies of men after death return to dust and see corruption but their Souls which neither dye nor sleep having an immortal subsistence immediately return to God who gave them the Souls of the Righteous being then made perfect in holiness are received into the highest Heavens where they behold the face of God in light and glory waiting for the full Redemption of their Bodies And the Souls of the wicked are cast into Hell where they remain in torments and utter darkness reserved to the Judgement of the Great Day Beside these two Places for Souls separated from their bodies the Scripture acknowledgeth none II. At the Last Day such as are found alive shall not dye but be changed and all the Dead shall be raised up with the self same bodies and none other although with different qualities which shall be united again to their Souls for ever III. The Bodies of the unjust shall by the power of Christ be raised to dishonour the Bodies of the just by his Spirit unto honour and be made conformable to his own glorious Body CHAP. XXXIII Of the last Iudgment GOd hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the World in righteousness by Jesus Christ to whom all Power and Judgement is given of the Father In which Day not onely the Apostate Angels shall be judged but likewise all Persons that have lived upon Earth shall appear before the Tribunal of Christ to give an Account of their Thoughts Words and Deeds and to receive according to what they have done in the Body whether good or evil II. The End of Gods appointing this Day is for the manifestation of the Glory of his Mercy in the eternal salvation of the Elect and of his Justice in the damnation of the Reprobate who are wicked and disobedient For then shall the Righteous go into everlasting life and receive that fullness of Joy and Refreshing which shall come from the presence of the Lord but the wicked who know not God and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ shall be cast into eternal Torments and be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power III. As Christ would have us to be certainly perswaded That there shall be a Day of Judgement both to deter all men from Sin and for the greater consolation of the Godly in their Adversity so will he have that Day unknown to men that they may shake off all carnal Security and be always watchful because they know not at what hour the Lord will come and may be ever prepared to say Come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen Charles Herle Prolocutor Cornelius Burges Assessor Herbert Palmer Assessor Henry Robroughe Scriba Adoniram Byfield Scriba FINIS