Confessing the Faith

1689 19:4 The Present Status of the Judicial Law | Confessing the Faith "This paragraph is clearly based on Calvin’s treatment of the judicial law in the Institutes. This treatment is very relevant in light of the idea of the abiding validity of the judicial law being espoused in our day." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

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." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

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." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

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’." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

1689 19:1 Of the Law of God "The subject of this chapter has been a matter of controversy among Calvinistic Baptists. Some have pronounced the Confession, ‘Presbyterian’, or, ‘legalistic’, at this point, asserting that its Baptist authors were swayed by historical circumstances to conform to their Presbyterian or Puritan brothers on this issue." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

1689 18:4 Assurance of Salvation is Variable | Confessing the Faith "General negligence may vitiate assurance. Failure to use the means of grace may cause one’s assurance of salvation to decline. This is a warning to fervently use the appointed public and private means of grace." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

1689 18:3 Assurance of Salvation is Attainable | Confessing the Faith "There are three points in this paragraph: the difficulty of attaining assurance, the provision for attaining assurance and the duty of attaining assurance." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"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." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"The burden of the Confession in its first paragraph is to assert the reality that true believers may have assurance in this life." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org

"The historical background of this chapter grows out of controversy. God overrules controversy for the purpose of clarifying the truth for his church." For more information visit: https://cbtseminary.org