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06 - The Westminster Confession of Faith · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty six of the Communion of Saints. One, all
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  Speaker 1: saints that are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by
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  Speaker 1: his spirit and by faith, have fellowship with Him in
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  Speaker 1: his grace, sufferings, death, resurrection, and glory, and being united
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  Speaker 1: to one another in love. They have communion in each
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  Speaker 1: other's gifts and graces, and are obliged to the performance
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  Speaker 1: of such duties public and private, as do conduce to
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  Speaker 1: their mutual good, both in the inward and outward man. Two.
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  Speaker 1: Saints by profession are bound to maintain an holy fellowship
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  Speaker 1: and communion in the worship of God, and in performing
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  Speaker 1: such other spiritual services as tend to their mutual edification,
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  Speaker 1: as also in relieving each other in outward things, according
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  Speaker 1: to their several abilities and necessities which communion, as God offers,
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  Speaker 1: opportunity is to be extended unto all those who in
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  Speaker 1: every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus. Three.
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  Speaker 1: This communion which the saints have with Christ does not
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  Speaker 1: make them in any wise partakers of the substance of
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  Speaker 1: His Godhead, or to be equal with Christ in any respect,
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  Speaker 1: either of which to affirm is impious and blasphemous. Nor
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  Speaker 1: does their communion one with another, as saints take away
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  Speaker 1: or infringe the title or propriety which each man has
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  Speaker 1: in his goods and possessions. Chapter twenty seven of the
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  Speaker 1: Sacraments one ers are wholly signs and seals of the
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  Speaker 1: Covenant of Grace, immediately instituted by God to represent Christ
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  Speaker 1: and his benefits, and to confirm our interest in Him,
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  Speaker 1: as also to put a visible difference between those that
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  Speaker 1: belong unto the Church and the rest of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and solemnly to engage them to the service of God
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  Speaker 1: in Christ according to his word. Two. There is in
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  Speaker 1: every sacrament a spiritual relation or sacramental union between the
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  Speaker 1: sign and the thing signified, whence it comes to pass
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  Speaker 1: that the names and effects of the one are attributed
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  Speaker 1: to the other. Three. The grace which is exhibited in
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  Speaker 1: or by the sacraments rightly used, is not conferred by
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  Speaker 1: any power in them. Neither does the efficacy of a
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  Speaker 1: sacrament depend upon the piety or intention of him that
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  Speaker 1: does administer it, but upon the work of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: and the word of Institution, which contains, together with a
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  Speaker 1: precept authorizing the use thereof a promise of benefit to
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  Speaker 1: worthy receivers. Four. There are only two sacraments ordained by Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord in the Gospel, that is to say, baptism
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  Speaker 1: and the Supper of the Lord, neither of which may
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  Speaker 1: be dispensed by any but by a minister of the
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  Speaker 1: Word lawfully ordained. Five. The sacraments of the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: in regard to the spiritual things thereby signified and exhibited,
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  Speaker 1: were for substance the same with those of the New
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty eight of Baptism. One. Baptism is a sacrament
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  Speaker 1: of the New Testament ordained by Jesus Christ, not only
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  Speaker 1: for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the
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  Speaker 1: visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign
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  Speaker 1: and seal of the covenant of grace, of his engrafting
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  Speaker 1: into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of
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  Speaker 1: his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ, to walk
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  Speaker 1: in the newness of life, which sacrament is by Christ's
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  Speaker 1: own appointment, to be continued in his Church until the
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  Speaker 1: end of the world. Two. The outward element to be
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  Speaker 1: used in this sacrament is water, wherewith the party is
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  Speaker 1: to be baptized in the name of the Father and
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  Speaker 1: of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. By a
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  Speaker 1: minister of the gospel lawfully called thereunto. Three, Dipping of
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  Speaker 1: the person into the water is not necessary, but baptism
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  Speaker 1: is rightly administered by pouring or sprinkling water upon the person. Four.
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  Speaker 1: Not only those that do actually profess faith in and
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  Speaker 1: obedience unto Christ, but also the infants of one or
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  Speaker 1: both believing parents, are to be baptized. Five. Although it
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  Speaker 1: is a great sin to contemn or neglect this ordinance,
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  Speaker 1: yet grace and salvation are not so inseparably annexed unto it,
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  Speaker 1: as that no person can be regenerated or saved without it,
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  Speaker 1: or that all that are baptized are undoubtedly regenerated. Six.
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  Speaker 1: The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment
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  Speaker 1: of time wherein it is administered. Yet, notwithstanding, by the
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  Speaker 1: right use of this ordinance, the grace promised is not
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  Speaker 1: only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost to such whether of age or infants, as that
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  Speaker 1: grace belongs unto according to the counsel of God's own
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  Speaker 1: will in his appointed time. Seven, the sacrament of baptism
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  Speaker 1: is but once to be administered unto any person. Chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine of the Lord's Supper. One our Lord Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in the night wherein he was betrayed, instituted the sacrament
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  Speaker 1: of his body and blood, called the Lord's Supper, to
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  Speaker 1: be observed in his church unto the end of the world,
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  Speaker 1: for the perpetual remembrance of the sacrifice of himself in
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  Speaker 1: his death, the sealing all benefits thereof unto true believers,
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  Speaker 1: their spiritual nourishment and growth in Him, their further engagement
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  Speaker 1: in and two all duties which they owe unto Him,
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  Speaker 1: and to be a bond and pledge of their communion
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  Speaker 1: with Him and with each other as members of His
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  Speaker 1: mystical body. Two. In this sacrament, Christ is not offered
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  Speaker 1: up to his father, nor any real sacrifice made at
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  Speaker 1: all for remission of sins of the quick or dead,
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  Speaker 1: but only a commemoration of that one offering up of
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  Speaker 1: himself by himself upon the cross once for all, and
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for
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  Speaker 1: the same. So that the popish sacrifice of the Mass,
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  Speaker 1: as they call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ's
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  Speaker 1: one only sacrifice, the alone propitiation for all the sins
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  Speaker 1: of his elect Three, the Lord Jesus has in this
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  Speaker 1: ordinance appointed his ministers to declare his word of institution
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  Speaker 1: to the people to pray and bless the elements of
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  Speaker 1: bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from
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  Speaker 1: a common to a holy use, and to take and
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  Speaker 1: break the bread, to take the cup, and they, communicating
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  Speaker 1: also themselves, to give both to the communicants, but to
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  Speaker 1: none who are not then present in the congregation. Four
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  Speaker 1: private masses, or receiving this sacrament by a priest or
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  Speaker 1: any other alone. As likewise, the denial of the cup
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  Speaker 1: to the people worshiping the elements, the lifting them up
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  Speaker 1: or carrying them about for adoration, and the reserving them
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  Speaker 1: for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the
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  Speaker 1: nature of this sacrament and to the institution of Christ. Five.
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  Speaker 1: The outward elements in this sacrament, duly set apart to
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  Speaker 1: the uses ordained by Christ, have such relation to Him
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  Speaker 1: crucified as that truly yet sacramentally only. They are sometimes
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  Speaker 1: called by the name the things they represent to it,
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  Speaker 1: the body and Blood of Christ. Albeit in substance and
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  Speaker 1: nature they still remain truly and only bread and wine,
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  Speaker 1: as they were before. Six, That doctrine which maintains a
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  Speaker 1: change of the substance of bread and wine into the
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  Speaker 1: substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation by
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  Speaker 1: consecration of a priest or by any other way, is
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  Speaker 1: repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense
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  Speaker 1: and reason, overthrows the nature of the sacrament, and has
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  Speaker 1: been and is the cause of manifold superstitions, yes of
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  Speaker 1: gross idolatries. Seven Worthy receivers outwardly partaking of the visible
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  Speaker 1: elements in this sacrament, do then also inwardly, by faith,
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  Speaker 1: really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually,
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  Speaker 1: receive and feed upon Christ crucified and all benefits of
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  Speaker 1: his death, the body and blood of Christ being then
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  Speaker 1: not corporally or carnally in with or under the bread
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  Speaker 1: and wine, yet as really but spiritually present to the
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  Speaker 1: faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves
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  Speaker 1: are to their outward senses. Eight. Although ignorant and wicked
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  Speaker 1: men receive the outward elements in this sacrament, yet they
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  Speaker 1: receive not the thing signified thereby, but by their unworthy
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  Speaker 1: coming thereunto are guilty of the body and blood of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord to their own damnation. Wherefore, all ignorant and
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  Speaker 1: ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with Him,
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  Speaker 1: so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot
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  Speaker 1: without great sin against Christ, while they remain such partake
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  Speaker 1: of these holy mysteries, or be admitted Thereunto Chapter thirty
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  Speaker 1: of Church Censures, one, the Lord Jesus, as King and
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  Speaker 1: head of his Church, has therein appointed a government in
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  Speaker 1: the hand of church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate
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  Speaker 1: sec Two. To these officers, the keys of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven are committed by virtue, whereof they have power, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: to retain and remit sins, to shut that kingdom against
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  Speaker 1: the impenitent, both by the word and censures, and to
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  Speaker 1: open it unto penitent sinners by the ministry of the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: and by absolution from censures, as occasion shall require. Three
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  Speaker 1: Church censures are necessary for the reclaiming and gaining of
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  Speaker 1: offending brothers, for deterring of others from the like offenses,
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  Speaker 1: for purging out of that leaven which might infect the
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  Speaker 1: whole lump, for vindicating the honor of Christ and the
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  Speaker 1: Holy profession of the Gospel, and for preventing the wrath
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  Speaker 1: of God which might justly fall upon the church if
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  Speaker 1: they should suffer His Covenant and the seals thereof to
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  Speaker 1: be profaned by notorious and obstinate offenders. Four. For the
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  Speaker 1: better attaining of these ends, the officers of the Church
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  Speaker 1: are to proceed by admonition, suspension from the sacrament of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's Supper for a season, and by excommunication from
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  Speaker 1: the Church, according to the nature of the crime and
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  Speaker 1: demerit of the person. End of Chapter thirty