Confessing the Faith

1689 19:3-4 The Threefold Division of the Law | Confessing the Faith

"The Confession in these paragraphs distinguishes three types of laws in the law of Moses: the moral, the ceremonial, and judicial and asserts that the ceremonial and judicial have been fulfilled and abolished, but that the moral law continues to bind all men."

1689 19:2 The Ten Commandments | Confessing the Faith

"Here the Confession teaches the substantial equivalence of the requirements of the law written on Adam’s heart with the Ten Commandments."

1689 19:2 The Law Written in the Heart of Adam | Confessing the Faith

"John Murray remarks, ‘The law of God confronts them and registers itself in their consciousness by reason of what they natively and constitutionally are’."

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1689 19:1 Of the Law of God

1689 18:4 Assurance of Salvation is Variable | Confessing the Faith

1689 18:3 Assurance of Salvation is Attainable | Confessing the Faith

"The Confession is asserting that there is an assurance of salvation which will not deceive us, about which we cannot be mistaken, which goes beyond mere probability. This should reassure the one who says, “I want to have assurance, but I am so fearful of being mistaken and deceiving myself.” There is an assurance of salvation which you may have, which will not deceive you, which is infallible."

"The burden of the Confession in its first paragraph is to assert the reality that true believers may have assurance in this life."

"The historical background of this chapter grows out of controversy. God overrules controversy for the purpose of clarifying the truth for his church."

"Modern easy-believism has objected to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints and taught in its place the doctrine which has become popularly known as “eternal security.” While the Confession does in a sense teach eternal security, it does not teach the popular view that eternal security means that men will be saved regardless of how they live and irrespective of whether they repent of the grievous sins into which they fall."