CONFESSION · 1536 AD · REFORMED (SWISS)

First Helvetic Confession

WRITTEN

1536 AD

TRADITION

Reformed (Swiss)

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19

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CONTENTS

Of the Holy Scrypture

ARTICLE 1

The canonycall or holy scrypture whiche is the worde of god taught and gyuen by the holy spryte, & puplyshed vnto the worlde by the prophetes and holy apostles, which also is the moost perfyte and auncient science and doctryne of wysoome it alone contayneth consumatly all godlynes and all sorte and maner of facyon of lyfe.

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