A Catechism and Confession of Faith. Robert Barclay

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      Published by Good Press, 2020

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Table of Contents

       CHAP. I.

       Of GOD, and the true and Saving Knowledge of Him.

       CHAP. II

       Of the Rule and Guide of Christians, and of the Scriptures.

       CHAP. III.

       Of Jesus Christ being manifest in the Flesh, the Use and End of it.

       CHAP. IV.

       Of the New Birth, the Inward Appearance of Christ in Spirit, and the Unity of the Saints with him.

       CHAP. V.

       Concerning the Light wherewith Jesus Christ hath enlightned every Man: The Universality and Sufficiency of God's Grace to all the world made manifest therein.

       CHAP. VI.

       Concerning Faith, Justification and Works.

       CHAP. VII.

       Concerning Perfection, or Freedom from SIN.

       CHAP. VIII.

       Concerning Perseverance and Falling from GRACE.

       CHAP. IX.

       Concerning the Church and Ministry.

       CHAP. X.

       Concerning Worship.

       CHAP. XI.

       Concerning Baptism, and Bread and Wine.

       CHAP. XII.

       Concerning the Life of a Christian in general; what and how it ought to be in this World.

       CHAP. XIII.

       Concerning Magistracy.

       CHAP. XIV.

       Concerning the Resurrection.

       CHAP. XV.

       A Short Introduction to the Confession of Faith.

       CHAP. XVI.

       A Confession of Faith, containing twenty three Articles.

       CHAP. XVII.

       A short Expostulation with, and Appeal to all other Professors.

       CHAP. XVIII.

       A Short Examination of some of the Scripture-Proofs, alledged by the Divines at Westminster, to prove divers Articles in their Confession of Faith and Catechism.

       Advertisement to the Reader.

      THE PREFACE TO THE READER.

      Since first that great Apostacy took place in the Hearts and Heads of those who began even in the Apostles days, to depart from the simplicity and purity of the Gospel, as it was then delivered in its primitive Splendor and Integrity, innumerable have been the manifold Inventions and Traditions, the different and various Notions and Opinions, wherewith Man (by giving way to the vain and airy Imaginations of his own unstable mind) hath burdened the Christian Faith: so that indeed, first by adding these things, and afterwards by equalling them, if not exalting them above the Truth, they have at last come to be substitute in the stead of it; so that in process of time, Truth came to be shut out of doors, and another thing placed in the room thereof, having a shew and a Name, but wanting the substance and thing itself: Nevertheless it pleased God to raise up Witnesses for himself almost in every Age and Generation, who, according to the Discoveries they received, bore some Testimony, less or more, against the Superstition and Apostacy of the time; and in special manner through the appearing of that Light which first broke forth in СКАЧАТЬ