The Book of Confessions - The Presbyterian Leader

church order and conflict, ministry, the sacraments, and marriage.
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(2) Ad imaginem et simulitudinem Dei.
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(3) Etenim voluntas, non noluntas dicitur.
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(4) Ed. 1568 reads: "whether they are elected from eternity?"
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(5) The so-called Athanasian Creed was not written by Athanasius but dates from the ninth
century. It is also called the "Quicunque" from the opening word of the Latin text.
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(6) The original manuscript has "Christ" instead of "Spirit."
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(7) The Latin reads: "by the faith of the Son of God."
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(8) Ordinarunt pastores, atque doctores.
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(9) The Latin has orationem which has been rendered as "prayer." But from the context it would
seem that the word should be given its usual classical meaning of a "speech."
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(10) The Apostolicals were followers of a religious fanatic, Gherado Segarelli, of Parma, who in
the thirteenth century wanted to restore the poverty of the apostolic life.
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(a) The text of the Westminster Confession of Faith is that adopted by The United
Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1958. Footnotes have been added to
show how the text of 1958 differs from that of the 1647 edition of the Confession published under
the title The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament Sitting
At Westminster, Concerning a Confession of Faith: with the Quotations and Text of Scripture
Annexed. Presented by Them Lately to Both Houses of Parliament. No attempt is made to trace
the various amendments leading to the text of 1958. The footnotes use the punctuation, spelling,
and capitalization of 1647.
On the organization of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1861, it adopted
the Standards of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America from which its
constituents had withdrawn. The only amendment in the Confession since 1861, by this Church,
has been in striking out the clause in Chapter XXIV, Section 4, making it unlawful to marry a
deceased wife's sister.
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