diff --git a/data/scottish/scots-confession.yaml b/data/scottish/scots-confession.yaml index 5269c52..f750f52 100644 --- a/data/scottish/scots-confession.yaml +++ b/data/scottish/scots-confession.yaml @@ -571,6 +571,22 @@ chapters: private nor public persons, neither yet to any kirk for any preeminence or prerogative personal or local which one has above another, but appertains to the Spirit of God by which also the Scripture was written. + + When controversy then happens, for the right understanding of any place or + sentence of Scripture or for the reformation of any abuse within the kirk of + God, we ought not so much to look at what men before us have said or done, as + unto that which the Holy Ghost uniformly speaks within the body of the + Scriptures, and unto that which Christ Jesus Himself did and commanded to be + done[g]. For this is a thing universally granted, that the Spirit of + God (which is the spirit of unity) is in nothing contrary unto Himself. If then + the interpretation, determination or sentence of any doctor, kirk or council, + repugnant to the plain Word of God written in any other place of Scripture, it + is a thing most certain that there is not the true understanding and meaning of + the Holy Ghost, supposing that councils, realms, and nations have approved and + received the same. For we dare not receive nor admit any interpretation which is + directly repugnant to any principal point of our faith, to any other plain text + of Scripture or yet unto the rule of charity. + verses: a: - Gen.4 @@ -593,6 +609,8 @@ chapters: - Acts.20 f: - John.21 + g: + - 1.Cor.11 - name: The Authority of the Scriptures number: 19 text: > @@ -658,12 +676,77 @@ chapters: the same sacraments to seal in their hearts the assurance of His promises and of that most blessed conjunction, union and society which the elect have with their head, Christ Jesus. + + And thus we utterly damn the vanity of those that affirm sacraments to be + nothing else but naked and bare signs[c]. No, we assuredly believe that by + baptism we are engrafted in Christ Jesus to be made partakers of His justice by + which our sins are covered and remitted[d]. And also that in the Supper + rightly used, Christ Jesus is so joined with us[e] that He becomes the + very nourishment and food of our souls. Not that we imagine any + transubstantiation of bread in Christ’s natural body and of wine in His natural + blood (as the papists have perniciously taught and damnably believe), but this + union and conjunction which we have with the body and blood of Christ Jesus in + the right use of the sacraments is wrought by operation of the Holy Ghost, who + by true faith carries us above all things that are visible, carnal, and earthly, + and makes us to feed upon the body and blood of Christ Jesus which was once + broken and shed for us which now is in heaven[f] and appears in the + presence of His Father for us; and yet notwithstanding the far distance of the + place which is betwixt His body now glorified in heaven and us now mortal in + this earth, yet we most assuredly believe that the bread that we break is the + communion of Christ’s body[g], and the cup which we bless is the + communion of His blood. So that we confess and undoubtedly believe that the + faithful, in the right use of the Lord’s table do so eat the body and drink the + blood of the Lord Jesus[h] that He remains in them and they in Him, yes + that they are so made flesh of His flesh and bone of His bones that as the + eternal Godhead has given to the flesh of Christ Jesus (which of its own + condition and nature was mortal and corruptible) life and immortality[i], + so does Christ Jesus, His flesh and blood eaten and drunk by us, give to us the + same prerogatives[j]. Which albeit we confess are neither given unto us at + that only time neither yet by the proper power and virtue of the sacrament only, + yet we affirm that the faithful in the right use of the Lord’s table have such + conjunction with Christ Jesus as the natural man can not apprehend. Yes and + farther we affirm that albeit the faithful oppressed by negligence and manly + infirmity do not profit so much as they would in the very instant action of the + Supper, yet will it after bring forth fruit as lively seed sown in good + ground. For the Holy Spirit (which can never be divided from the right + institution of the Lord Jesus) will not frustrate the faithful of the fruit of + that mystical action, but all this we say comes by true faith which apprehends + Christ Jesus who only makes His sacrament effectual unto us. And, therefore, + whosoever slanders us, as that we affirmed or believed sacraments to be only + naked and bare signs, do injury unto us and speak against a manifest truth. But + this liberally and frankly we must confess, that we make a distinction betwixt + Christ Jesus in His natural substance and betwixt the elements in the + sacramental signs. So that we will neither worship the signs in place of that + which is signified by them, neither yet do we despise and interpret them as + unprofitable and vain, but do use them with all reverence, examining ourselves + diligently before, that so we do because we are assured by the mouth of the + apostle that such as eat of the bread and drink of that cup unworthily are + guilty of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus[k]. + verses: a: - Gen.17 b: - Matt.26 - Matt.28 + c: + - Rom.8 + d: + - 1.Cor.10 + e: + - John.6 + f: + - Heb.6.10 + g: + - 1.Cor.10 + h: + - John.6 + i: + - Eph.5 + j: + - John.6 + k: + - 1.Cor.11 - name: Of the Right Administration of the Sacraments number: 22 text: >