Kindle Notes & Highlights
Augsburg Interim
Leipzig Interim
Gnesio-Lutherans
Formula of Concord
Second Helvetic Confession,
Irish Articles of 1615,
In its own time, the Westminster Confession was so successful that, although the Puritan movement that spawned it was checked by the restoration of the British monarchy in 1660, it survived to become the official doctrinal standard of the Church of Scotland in 1690.
the Eastern Orthodox churches adopted the Confession of Dositheus
their essential unity of approach is more significant than the differences that particular statements of faith contain.
New birth does not rule out the need for growth, but it is growth of what is already there in principle, not the addition of new elements that effect a gradual transformation from one kind of life to another.
It is because we have recognized our need and accepted that it has been met in Christ that we have received the gift of salvation. This is what the Reformers meant by justification—acceptance in the presence of God, not as people who have overcome sin in their lives but as sinners who have been clothed in the righteousness of Christ.
