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The text has been corrected against this scan (“Correct lbcf1689 from fifth edition”); the corrections are in its commit history. The scan is Google’s, of the copy at [Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=AjNWAAAAcAAJ); archive.org has the fourth edition (1719) but not this one. Its front matter is in `prose/`: the General Assembly’s recommendation of 1689 with its thirty-seven names (`prose/recommendation`; the churches and counties some modern lists give beside the names are not in this printing), and the preface “To the Judicious and Impartial Reader” (`prose/preface`), both as this printing has them, made from `phila1742`’s, which follows it closely, and read against the scan word by word. The first printing, with its preface as printed in 1677 and its appendix on baptism, is `lbcf1677`. `prose/spurgeon` is not this printing’s: it is C. H. Spurgeon’s two prefatory notes to his reprint of the confession for the church at New Park Street (London, 1855), one to the household of faith, the other to his church. No scan of the 1855 printing has been found, so they follow his *Autobiography*, volume 2 (Chicago: Revell, 1899), pages 160–161, which quotes them in full ([archive.org](https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofc02spur)); they are kept here as the best-known commendation of this confession, which SVRBC’s baptistconfession.org printed with it. No public-domain transcription of the 1688 printing is known (EEBO-TCP has none)."},"chapter_count":32,"paragraph_count":160,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689"},{"id":"lbcf1689-modernized","kind":"confession","title":"Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (modernized)","short":"2LCF","aliases":["1689 Confession","Second London Confession","London Baptist Confession of Faith"],"authors":["Elders and brethren of the Particular Baptist churches in London and the country"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1677,"adopted":[{"by":"General Assembly of the Particular Baptist churches","year":1689}]},"year":1689,"edition":null,"source":null,"image":null,"modernized":"lbcf1689","exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1689","relation":"same"},{"document":"savoy1658-modernized","relation":"revises"},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","relation":"revises"}],"provenance":{"witness":null,"transcription":{"from":"lbcf1689","checked":[]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"`lbcf1689` with its spelling modernized by `scripts/modernize.mjs`, from `scripts/modernize-dictionary.json`."},"chapter_count":32,"paragraph_count":160,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689-modernized"},{"id":"lbcf1677","kind":"confession","title":"Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing)","short":"2LCF 1677","aliases":["1677 Confession","Second London Confession (1677)","A Confession of Faith (1677)"],"authors":["Elders and brethren of the Particular Baptist churches in London and the country"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1677,"adopted":[]},"year":1677,"edition":"The first printing, 1677","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1689","relation":"edition"},{"document":"savoy1658","relation":"revises"},{"document":"wcf1646","relation":"revises"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Confession of Faith. Put forth by the Elders and Brethren Of many Congregations of Christians (baptized upon Profession of their Faith) in London and the Country","edition":"The first printing, 1677","published":1677,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing C5794","ESTC R25352"],"original":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/2ff1b4fe0ed16289669c597343c79e715e7f754f9ca3ec6ef2f5831d97f3c932/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677.pdf","sha256":"2ff1b4fe0ed16289669c597343c79e715e7f754f9ca3ec6ef2f5831d97f3c932","pdf_source":"https://archive.org/download/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677.pdf"},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A34255","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-p_1677_0","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs where A34255 and `lbcf1689` differ, and the TCP’s gaps"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The first printing of the confession, “Printed in the Year, 1677”, without a printer’s name or place (Wing gives London), as EEBO-TCP transcribed it (A34255). The text `lbcf1689` follows is the fifth edition of 1720. Its preface, “To the Judicious and Impartial Reader”, is in `prose/preface.md`, and its appendix on baptism in `prose/appendix.md`. It was checked against the issue with Benjamin Harris’s imprint (London, 1677), of the same setting. Every departure from A34255 is in `confessions/lbcf1677/EMENDATIONS.md`."},"chapter_count":32,"paragraph_count":160,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677"},{"id":"phila1742","kind":"confession","title":"Philadelphia Confession of Faith","short":"PCF","aliases":["Philadelphia Confession","Philadelphia Baptist Confession","The Baptist Confession of Faith (Philadelphia","1742)"],"authors":["Elders and brethren of the Particular Baptist churches in London and the country","Philadelphia Baptist Association"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1743,"adopted":[{"by":"Philadelphia Baptist Association","year":1742}]},"year":1742,"edition":"The sixth edition, printed by B. Franklin, 1743","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1689","relation":"adapts"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Confession of Faith, Put forth by the Elders and Brethren Of many Congregations of Christians (Baptized upon Profession of their Faith) In London and the Country. Adopted by the Baptist Association met at Philadelphia, Sept. 25. 1742","edition":"The sixth edition, printed by B. Franklin, 1743","published":1743,"place":"Philadelphia","catalog":["Evans 5124"],"original":"https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/bba27116bcba74d36deeae79564f6d826796f772a8549a4589034e1d3291ac3f/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743.pdf","sha256":"bba27116bcba74d36deeae79564f6d826796f772a8549a4589034e1d3291ac3f","pdf_source":"https://archive.org/download/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743.pdf"},"transcription":{"from":"lbcf1689","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-confession-of-faith-p_1743","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"all, word by word, and every proof against the page’s notes; the two added chapters and the prose transcribed from it"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The 1689 confession as the Philadelphia Baptist Association adopted it on 25 September 1742, printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 as “The Sixth Edition”, with two articles added: “Of Singing of Psalms, &c.” (chapter 23) and “Of Laying on of Hands” (chapter 31), so that the 1689’s chapters 23 to 32 are its 24 to 30 and 32 to 34. No transcription of it was to be had (Evans-TCP has none), so its files began as a copy of `lbcf1689` (the London fifth edition of 1720), which it follows closely, and every paragraph was then read against the scan and made to read as it prints; each relates to `lbcf1689`’s, and the diffs give their differences in words. Its front matter is in `prose/`: the General Assembly’s recommendation of 1689 with its thirty-seven names, and the preface “To the Judicious and Impartial Reader”. *A Short Treatise of Church Discipline*, bound with it, is not included. Every departure from the printing is in `confessions/phila1742/EMENDATIONS.md`."},"chapter_count":34,"paragraph_count":162,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742"},{"id":"flcf1644","kind":"confession","title":"First London Baptist Confession of Faith","short":"1LCF","aliases":["First London Confession","1644 Confession","London Baptist Confession of 1644","The Confession of Faith of those Churches which are commonly (though falsly) called Anabaptists"],"authors":["The seven Particular Baptist churches in London"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1644,"adopted":[]},"year":1644,"edition":"The printing “in the yeare of our Lord, 1644”, without the printer’s name","source":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240943223","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"flcf1646","relation":"revised-by"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"The Confession of Faith, Of those Churches which are commonly (though falsly) called Anabaptists","edition":"The printing “in the yeare of our Lord, 1644”, without the printer’s name","published":1644,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing C5789","ESTC R5039"],"original":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240943223","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/9224d49faf5c3df2f493fc6f6fe2237061ea0630d7e09cee951ecfc724ac3402/first-london-confession-of-faith-1644.pdf","sha256":"9224d49faf5c3df2f493fc6f6fe2237061ea0630d7e09cee951ecfc724ac3402","pdf_source":null},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A80329","checked":[{"against":"eebo-tcp:A34250","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs, all; where A80329 is wanting or a reference doesn’t exist"},{"against":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240943223","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"all, word by word, every proof against the margin, and where each letter stands; the epistle and its subscribers for wording, on EEBO’s film of the same copy"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The Particular Baptists’ first confession, in 53 articles, subscribed by two or three men from each of seven churches in London, William Kiffen, John Spilsbery and Samuel Richardson among them, with their epistle “To all that desire the lifting up of the Name of the Lord Jesus” (`prose/preface`). Printed twice in 1644; this is the printing without the printer’s name (Thomason’s copy, E.12[24]), whose last two articles are both numbered LII, here 52 and 53. The other, Matthew Simmons’s (Wing C5790, EEBO-TCP A34250), has a free scan at [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-confession-of-faith-_1644). Imported from EEBO-TCP A80329 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs`, its proofs checked against A34250, and then proofread against the PDF, word by word: the TCP’s text holds, and the scan moved article 14’s segments to where its letters stand, and joined those of 32 and 39, which print no letters. The references corrected are the printing’s own misprints (a verse that doesn’t exist) or the TCP’s misreadings of it, but article 46’s Jude 19, whose figure is blurred in this copy, as A34250 and the 1646 have it; each is in the commits that made them. The printing has no page numbers: `page` is its signature (the confession runs A3r–C4r). The PDF is EEBO’s film of Thomason’s copy (E.12[24]), with his “24” and “Octob: 16” on its title page, from ProQuest’s Early Modern Collection, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page: the text was read on it, and it is sharper than archive.org’s free scan of a microfilm of the same copy ([per_early-baptist_the-confession-of-faith-_1644](https://archive.org/details/per_early-baptist_the-confession-of-faith-_1644)). Each paragraph’s `leaf` is its page of the PDF. EEBO has a second copy of Wing C5789, and the Angus Library (Regent’s Park College, Oxford) a third, photographed in colour ([36.GA.c.13](https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/treasures/the-confession-on-faith-of-those-churches-which-are-commonly-though-falsly-called-anabaptists-presented-to-the-view-of-all-that-feare-god-to-examine-by-the-touchstone-of-the-word-of-truth/)). Its revision of 1646 is `flcf1646`."},"chapter_count":53,"paragraph_count":53,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644"},{"id":"flcf1646","kind":"confession","title":"First London Baptist Confession of Faith (second edition)","short":"1LCF","aliases":["First London Confession (1646)","1646 Confession","A Confession of Faith of seven Congregations or Churches of Christ in London"],"authors":["The seven Particular Baptist churches in London"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1646,"adopted":[]},"year":1646,"edition":"The second impression, corrected and enlarged, 1646","source":"https://books.google.com/books?id=aq1AAQAAMAAJ","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"flcf1644","relation":"revises"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Confession of Faith Of seven Congregations or Churches of Christ in London, which are commonly (but unjustly) called Anabaptists","edition":"The second impression, corrected and enlarged, 1646","published":1646,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing C5780","ESTC R200559"],"original":"https://books.google.com/books?id=aq1AAQAAMAAJ","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/87046623204705f96505bda4354dea50aab8c159f203b88b5d0189855aa145e1/first-london-confession-of-faith-1646.pdf","sha256":"87046623204705f96505bda4354dea50aab8c159f203b88b5d0189855aa145e1","pdf_source":null},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A80328","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-confession-of-faith-o_1652","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs, where A80328 is illegible or a reference doesn’t exist"},{"against":"eebo-tcp:A80329","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs, where A80328 is illegible or a reference doesn’t exist"},{"against":"scan","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"all, word by word, every proof against the margin, and where each letter stands; the epistles, the conclusion and the subscribers for wording"},{"against":"https://archive.org/details/per_early-baptist_an-appendix-to-a-confes_benjamin-cox_1646","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-29","scope":"Benjamin Cox’s appendix (`prose/cox-appendix`), from eebo-tcp:A80728, word by word"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The 1644 confession revised, “corrected and enlarged”, in 52 articles, with an epistle to Parliament (`prose/dedication`), one to the reader (`prose/preface`) and a conclusion (`prose/the-conclusion`), and subscribed for the seven churches and a French congregation, Hanserd Knollys and Benjamin Cox now among them. Printed by Matthew Simmons and sold by John Hancock (Thomason’s copy, E.319[13]). It adds articles on providence (5), on the magistracy and oaths (50) and on the resurrection (52); the 1644’s article on the King and Parliament (49) is now a note on article 48, and its last (53) is the conclusion. Each article relates to the 1644’s it revises. Imported from EEBO-TCP A80328 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs`, its gaps first filled from the 1644 and the third impression (London, 1652, Wing C5787a), and then proofread against the scan, word by word: most of the TCP’s gaps and doubtful references read plainly there, and where the printing sets no letter in the text (articles 8, 17, 23, 26, 32, 38, 40, 42, 43, 45 and 52) the segments are joined. The references corrected are the printing’s own misprints (a verse that doesn’t exist) or the TCP’s misreadings of it; each is in the commits that made them. The printing has no page numbers: `page` is its signature (the confession runs B1r–C4v). The scan is Google’s, of the University of California, Berkeley’s copy (BX4933 .G7 A3 1646a; its loan slip and barcode are in the scan), of the same setting as Thomason’s (its title page, and A2r ending “to the Magistrate, who”, as A80328 has them); Google Books asks for a CAPTCHA before it gives the PDF. `prose/cox-appendix` is not this printing’s but a pamphlet of its own, published to go with it: *An Appendix, to a Confession of Faith, or A more full Declaration of the Faith and Judgement of Baptized Beleevers*, by Benjamin Cox, one of the subscribers (London, 1646; Wing C6713, Thomason E.364[1], dated by Thomason 30 November), which explains “A Confession of faith of seven Congregations … in 52 Articles”, this one, in twenty-two articles more. It is EEBO-TCP A80728, read word by word against EEBO’s film of Thomason’s copy on [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/per_early-baptist_an-appendix-to-a-confes_benjamin-cox_1646) (its title page is left out); the TCP’s gaps are filled from the film (“Christ”, “to”, “unbeliefe”, “faith”, “baptized disciples”, “admitted”, “1 Tim. 6.1.”) and its misreadings corrected (“a seale” for “a feale”, “Acts 2.41.42.” for “2.4.42.”, “nor communicate” for “no”, “fellowship” for “followship”, “Rom. 13.8, 9, 10.” for “9.10.”), and the printing’s “eleerly” is “cleerly”, its “1 Cor. 4.40.” (the 1 broken) 14.40, and its “hu bands” “husbands”. SVRBC’s baptistconfession.org printed it, modernized, as the 1689 confession’s appendix; the 1677 printing’s own appendix, on baptism, is `lbcf1677`’s."},"chapter_count":52,"paragraph_count":52,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646"},{"id":"articles1571","kind":"confession","title":"Thirty-Nine Articles","short":"39 Articles","aliases":["Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion","Articles of Religion","XXXIX Articles","The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England"],"authors":["Convocation of Canterbury"],"tradition":["anglican","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1563,"first_published":1563,"adopted":[{"by":"Convocation of Canterbury","year":1571}]},"year":1571,"edition":"Richard Jugge and John Cawood’s printing, 1571, with the first clause of article 20","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":["burnet1699","rogers1607"],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"Articles whereupon it was agreed by the Archbishoppes and Bishoppes of both prouinces and the whole cleargie, in the Conuocation holden at London in the yere of our Lorde GOD. 1562. according to the computation of the Churche of Englande, for the auoiding of the diuersities of opinions, and for the stablishyng of consent touching true religion","edition":"Richard Jugge and John Cawood’s printing, 1571, with the first clause of article 20","published":1571,"place":"London","catalog":["STC 10038.9","ESTC S124523"],"original":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/5deb6e990bc6374b2b88cd454688fac0d9e3dea2ecb1782316682b321147f2cd/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0.pdf","sha256":"5deb6e990bc6374b2b88cd454688fac0d9e3dea2ecb1782316682b321147f2cd","pdf_source":"https://archive.org/download/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0.pdf"},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A72013","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_articles-whereupon-it-wa_england-church-of-artic_1571_0","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"article 6’s canonical books, the Greek of article 9 (a gap in A72013), and every word in which A72013 and B13405 differ but spelling"},{"against":"eebo-tcp:B13405","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"all, word by word"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The Church of England’s Articles of Religion: Matthew Parker’s revision of Cranmer’s Forty-Two Articles (1553), agreed in Latin by the Convocation of Canterbury in January 1563 (“1562”, the English year beginning in March), and printed that year in Latin and in English without article 29. In 1571 Convocation read them again, restored article 29, and the bishops and clergy subscribed them; the English was revised against the Latin, and Parliament’s Act of that year (13 Eliz. c. 12) bound the clergy to subscribe them. The English of 1571 is not a translation but the Articles themselves, of the same authority as the Latin. This is that English, in the Queen’s printers’ quarto of 1571, as EEBO-TCP transcribed it (A72013, from the Cambridge University Library copy). The other 1571 quarto the TCP has (STC 10039.3, ESTC S120358, EEBO-TCP B13405) is another setting, with its own spelling and slips, and without article 20’s first clause, “The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies, and aucthoritie in controuersies of fayth”, which the Latin of 1563 has, and the Articles as the Church of England has received them. The titles are the printing’s; the margin numbers the articles. Article 6’s canonical books, set in two columns, and article 35’s homilies run on in their paragraphs; the TCP read the second book of Kings into the wrong column, and it is put back. The printing’s spelling, abbreviations (“supererogatiō”, “tokēs”, “ye” for “the”) and slips (“clearey” in 15, “comdemned” in 16, “partrakyng” in 28) are kept; its long s is s, and its VV W. The Greek of article 9, which the TCP did not key, is read from the scan. The ratification is `prose/ratification`; the table of the articles’ short titles and the colophon are left out. 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This is the English of the Reformed Dutch Church in America, “The Confession of Faith of the Reformed Dutch Church, Revised in the National Synod held at Dordrecht”, as printed in its Constitution (Philadelphia, 1840, pp. 40–60), the printing `heidelberg` follows. Each article is a chapter, with the printing’s title; article 1’s number is printed “Article I.”, the rest are numbered only. Articles 4, 9 and 18 are of two paragraphs, the rest of one. The printing sets the words of Scripture in italics and rarely says where they are from; the four references it prints are the segments’ proofs: in articles 2 and 37 they follow the words as a citation and are taken out of the text, and in article 9 they introduce the words they cite and stay in it. 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This is the English of the Reformed Dutch Church in America, as printed in its Constitution (Philadelphia, 1840, pp. 60–75), the printing `heidelberg` follows. Each head of doctrine is a chapter, titled with its head and its subject, and each article a paragraph, `<head>.<article>`. The third and fourth heads, which the Synod treated as one and printed as one (“Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine”), are chapter 3, and there is no chapter 4, so that the fifth head is chapter 5 and every article’s id is the number it is cited by: “III/IV, 12” is 3.12, “V, 3” is 5.3. Article I.7’s two printed paragraphs are one paragraph. This printing gives the articles only: the Rejection of Errors that follows each head in the Synod’s Latin and in the Dutch (the conclusion still speaks of “the rejection of the errors”) is not in it, and is not here; added from another printing, each head’s rejections could follow its articles (1.19–1.27 for the first head’s nine), beginning as printed (“Rejection I”), until the articles kind of #19 numbers them R1, R2. The Conclusion, with the subscription and the list of the delegations, is `prose/conclusion`. The printing quotes Scripture in quotation marks, with a reference before or after; each reference is the proof of the segment that ends with the words it cites. One that introduces the words stays in the text (“according to the words of the apostle. Rom. iii. 19, “that every mouth…”); one that follows them as a citation is taken out. Its italics and spacing before stops are not kept; its spelling, capitals and punctuation are, but where a letter or a stop is wanting or a stop is wrong, and where the scan is damaged (I.18), which `confessions/dort1619/EMENDATIONS.md` lists with every reference and how it was placed."},"chapter_count":4,"paragraph_count":59,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/dort1619"},{"id":"wcf1646","kind":"confession","title":"Westminster Confession of Faith","short":"WCF","aliases":["Westminster Confession"],"authors":["Westminster Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1646,"first_published":1647,"adopted":[{"by":"Church of Scotland","year":1647}]},"year":1646,"edition":"The third edition, 1647, “Printed for the Company of Stationers”, with the Scripture proofs","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-humble-advice-of-the_westminster-assembly-of-_1647_1","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":["dickson1684"],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1677","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"lbcf1689","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"savoy1658","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","relation":"same"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"The Humble Advice of the Assembly of Divines, Now by Authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, Concerning a Confession of Faith","edition":"The third edition, 1647, “Printed for the Company of Stationers”, with the Scripture proofs","published":1647,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing W1429","ESTC R206150"],"original":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-humble-advice-of-the_westminster-assembly-of-_1647_1","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/33221099ded8054b1a70d2b89e62fdbdb3b2ee487088821b4a93a1376221e569/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-humble-advice-of-the_westminster-assembly-of-_1647_1.pdf","sha256":"33221099ded8054b1a70d2b89e62fdbdb3b2ee487088821b4a93a1376221e569","pdf_source":"https://archive.org/download/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-humble-advice-of-the_westminster-assembly-of-_1647_1/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-humble-advice-of-the_westminster-assembly-of-_1647_1.pdf"},"transcription":{"from":"unknown","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-confession-of-faith-_1658_0","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-29","scope":"the epistle “To the Christian Reader” (`prose/to-the-christian-reader`), transcribed from it, word by word"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"Completed by the Assembly in December 1646. The text has been corrected against the third edition of 1647 (“Correct wcf1646 with third edition from 1647”); the corrections are in its commit history. What they were made from is not a scan but the Westminster Assembly Project’s transcription of that edition, a PDF made in Word (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GMAPVoozVOws-3kmly8fglhJCiR_9gDA/view, SHA-256 18600f106012c41db3ce4f3a6ad552cd0e084fa768aa388f7d87f57c1e51edfe), which catalogues it as ESTC R206150, Wing W1429. The scan is EEBO’s film of Wing W1429, whose title page and page breaks (A1r ending “which”, C1r “is ve-”) are the transcription’s; Wing W1430, also of 1647, is another setting. `prose/to-the-christian-reader` is not this printing’s: the epistle “To the Christian Reader; Especially heads of Families”, signed by thirty-eight London ministers (Thomas Manton, Thomas Goodwin, William Bates, Thomas Watson and others), was first printed in *The Confession of Faith, Together with The Larger and Lesser Catechisms … Again Published with the Scriptures at large* (London: E. M. for the Company of Stationers, sold by John Rothwel, 1658), the edition that set out the proofs in full, and was reprinted with the Westminster Standards for long after. It was transcribed from EEBO’s film of that edition on [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-confession-of-faith-_1658_0), word by word, with its margin references as footnotes; Princeton Theological Seminary’s copy of 1658 ([archive.org](https://archive.org/details/confessionoffait1658west)) has the same epistle, its first page set line for line as this one, but signed with forty-four names, six more than this copy (Matthew Haviland, William Blackmore, William Wickins, John Seabrooke, John Peachie and Obadiah Lee); that longer list is the one later editions and modern copies print. Its misprints “Delnge”, “mnst”, “kmowledge” and “fnch” are corrected to “Deluge”, “must”, “knowledge” and “such”, and its “Joh. 4. 9” for Philip’s “Come and see” to “Joh. 1. 46”."},"chapter_count":33,"paragraph_count":172,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646"},{"id":"wcf1646-modernized","kind":"confession","title":"Westminster Confession of Faith (modernized)","short":"WCF","aliases":["Westminster Confession"],"authors":["Westminster Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1646,"first_published":1647,"adopted":[{"by":"Church of Scotland","year":1647}]},"year":1646,"edition":null,"source":null,"image":null,"modernized":"wcf1646","exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"savoy1658-modernized","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"wcf1646","relation":"same"}],"provenance":{"witness":null,"transcription":{"from":"wcf1646","checked":[]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"`wcf1646` with its spelling modernized by `scripts/modernize.mjs`, from `scripts/modernize-dictionary.json`."},"chapter_count":33,"paragraph_count":172,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized"},{"id":"savoy1658","kind":"confession","title":"Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order","short":"Savoy","aliases":["Savoy Declaration"],"authors":["Savoy Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","congregational"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1658,"first_published":1658,"adopted":[]},"year":1658,"edition":"John Field’s printing, 1659","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1659","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1677","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"lbcf1689","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"savoy1658-modernized","relation":"same"},{"document":"wcf1646","relation":"revises"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Declaration of the Faith and Order Owned and practiced in the Congregational Churches in England","edition":"John Field’s printing, 1659","published":1659,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing N1487","ESTC R16855"],"original":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1659","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/6329df1654f23be1b2f394f500b2d59a264f64be0ad076793abe1d86119ee385/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1659.pdf","sha256":"6329df1654f23be1b2f394f500b2d59a264f64be0ad076793abe1d86119ee385","pdf_source":"https://archive.org/download/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1659/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1659.pdf"},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A52591","checked":[{"against":"https://archive.org/details/creedsplatformso00walk","by":null,"date":null,"scope":"where A52591 is illegible, wanting or misprinted"},{"against":"eebo-tcp:A89790","by":null,"date":null,"scope":"where A52591 is illegible, wanting or misprinted"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"Corrected against Walker’s 1893 reprint of the 1658 Field printing, and the printing “for D.L.”, 1659 (Wing N1488). Every departure from A52591, and the policy, is in `confessions/savoy1658/EMENDATIONS.md`. The scan is EEBO’s film of Wing N1487 (“Printed by John Field, and are to be sold by John Allen”, 1659; [30], 64 p., as A52591), at archive.org. Walker’s reprint is a second scan, of a later setting: *The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism* (New York, 1893), https://archive.org/details/creedsplatformso00walk (PDF https://archive.org/download/creedsplatformso00walk/creedsplatformso00walk.pdf). Field’s printing of 1658 (Wing N1486) is at https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-declaration-of-the-fai_nye-philip_1658."},"chapter_count":33,"paragraph_count":189,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/savoy1658"},{"id":"savoy1658-modernized","kind":"confession","title":"Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized)","short":"Savoy","aliases":["Savoy Declaration"],"authors":["Savoy Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","congregational"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1658,"first_published":1658,"adopted":[]},"year":1658,"edition":null,"source":null,"image":null,"modernized":"savoy1658","exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","relation":"revised-by"},{"document":"savoy1658","relation":"same"},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","relation":"revises"}],"provenance":{"witness":null,"transcription":{"from":"savoy1658","checked":[]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"`savoy1658` with its spelling modernized by `scripts/modernize.mjs`, from `scripts/modernize-dictionary.json`."},"chapter_count":33,"paragraph_count":189,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/savoy1658-modernized"},{"id":"standard1660","kind":"confession","title":"Standard Confession","short":null,"aliases":["A Brief Confession or Declaration of Faith","The Standard Confession of 1660"],"authors":["Elders","deacons and brethren of the General Baptist churches in London and the counties"],"tradition":["baptist"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1660,"first_published":1660,"adopted":[]},"year":1660,"edition":"Printed by G. 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This is its first printing, which Thomason dated 15 March 1659[/60]. The broadside “Lately presented to King Charles the Second” (Wing B4560, ESTC R212523, EEBO-TCP A77416), which Thomason dated 26 July 1660, is a later setting with its own spelling; it adds 1 John 5:7 to article 7, Thomas Grantham to the subscribers, and “Owned and approved by more than 20000.” The printing sets its references in the running text; in the articles they are the segments’ proofs. What follows article 25 is `prose/`, the conclusion and the subscribers. The text began as EEBO-TCP’s A77414 and was then proofread word by word against the scan, every reference with it, and made to read as printed, misprints and all but where a reference is impossible; each paragraph gives its page and leaf. Every departure from A77414 and from the printing, and how its references were made proofs, is in `confessions/standard1660/EMENDATIONS.md`. The PDF is EEBO’s film of Thomason’s copy (E.1017[14]), from ProQuest’s Early Modern Collection, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page: the text was read on it, and it is sharper. The Angus Library (Regent’s Park College, Oxford) shows its copy (1.k.19(2)), of the same setting, free in colour photographs ([its page](https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/treasures/brief-confession-or-declaration-of-faith-set-forth-by-many-of-us-who-are-falsely-called-anabaptists/), [PDF](https://theangus.rpc.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/1.k.19-2.pdf)). EEBO’s film of Thomason’s broadside (669.f.25[65]), which the text was checked against, is [ours too](https://assets.symbolics.dev/28ad0903263bec650ab7f623ee18c4b2db10350c2ba2c67270ed6ae04650542b/general-baptists-brief-confession-broadside-1660.pdf), from ProQuest the same way. The National Library of Ireland has another copy of the broadside, which it shows free ([LO Folder 7/20](https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000196812))."},"chapter_count":25,"paragraph_count":25,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/standard1660"},{"id":"orthodox1679","kind":"confession","title":"Orthodox Creed","short":null,"aliases":["An Orthodox Creed","An Orthodox Creed","or a Protestant Confession of Faith","The Orthodox Creed of 1679","Orthodox Creed of 1678"],"authors":["Thomas Monck","Messengers","elders and brethren of the General Baptist congregations in Buckinghamshire","Hertfordshire","Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire"],"tradition":["baptist"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1679,"first_published":1679,"adopted":[]},"year":1679,"edition":"The first edition, “Printed in the Year, 1679”, without the printer’s name (Cambridge University Library)","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-orthodox-creed-_1679","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"apostles","relation":"parallel"},{"document":"athanasian","relation":"parallel"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"An Orthodox Creed, or, A Protestant Confession of Faith. 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Transcribed from EEBO’s film of the Cambridge copy (archive.org), with ProQuest’s scan of the same film ([docview 2240943076](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240943076); [ours](https://assets.symbolics.dev/e6eba65446432ace1bd8cd0180e13fda5522758541d6750ad9857bfa4fe05be7/general-baptists-an-orthodox-creed-1679.pdf), with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page) where archive.org’s is hard to read. Article 38 prints the Apostles’, Nicene and Athanasian creeds, and relates to `apostles` and `athanasian` clause by clause. The epistle “To the Judicious and Impartial Reader” is `prose/preface`, with its marginal notes as footnotes, and the list of the articles’ titles and pages `prose/contents`; the advertisement and the subscribers after article 50 are `prose/advertisement`. 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The later printings checked (London, 1747; 1764; 1765; Bristol, 1784; Rippon’s of 1794, as reprinted in Philadelphia in 1851) are farther from it. Against A29458, 90 of the 114 questions have the same words, capitals and punctuation aside, 19 differ only in spelling and 5 in a word (53 “especially”, 62 “the stranger”, 98 “towards”, 102 “shown”, 114 “teach us”), and the proofs of 89 name the same verses; ours adds references in 16 questions, mostly ones the 1695 printing lacks, and leaves some out in 7. On 2026-10-28 slips of wording in 13 questions (“of king” in 26, “because of his grace” in 112) and wrong references in 15 (Psalm 45 for 95 in 57, 1 Corinthians 4:16 for 14:16 in 114), which the 1695 printing and the later ones all contradict, were corrected. `catechisms/bc1695/WITNESSES.md` has it all, question by question. 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Its proofs are the 1649 printing’s in most letters, with that printing’s misprints set right, and another edition’s in some. The witness is the printing it has been checked against, the nearest early one, not its source. Where the text departs from it, in words and in proofs, `catechisms/wlc/WITNESSES.md` lists each; the slips of transcription the check found were corrected, and the commit that corrected them lists each. EEBO-TCP has the Assembly’s catechisms as printed in 1649 (A80320) and 1658 (A74916). The PDF is EEBO’s film of Thomason’s copy (E.1419[1]), from ProQuest’s Early Modern Collection, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page, on which the text was checked; archive.org’s films of 1649 are other printings (Amsterdam, for Andrew Wilson of Edinburgh, Wing C5760A; Edinburgh, Gideon Lithgow, C5760C)."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":196,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc"},{"id":"wlc-modernized","kind":"catechism","title":"Westminster Larger Catechism (modernized)","short":"WLC","aliases":["Larger Catechism"],"authors":["Westminster Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1647,"first_published":1648,"adopted":[{"by":"Church of Scotland","year":1648}]},"year":1647,"edition":null,"source":null,"image":null,"modernized":"wlc","exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"bc1695-modernized","relation":"parallel"},{"document":"wlc","relation":"same"},{"document":"wsc-modernized","relation":"parallel"}],"provenance":{"witness":null,"transcription":{"from":"wlc","checked":[]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"`wlc` with its spelling modernized from `scripts/modernize-dictionary.json`, made by the API’s build: its only files are its diffs against the modernized copies it relates to (`diffs/`), which `npm run diff` writes."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":196,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":0,"url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized"},{"id":"wsc","kind":"catechism","title":"Westminster Shorter Catechism","short":"WSC","aliases":["Shorter Catechism"],"authors":["Westminster Assembly"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1647,"first_published":1648,"adopted":[{"by":"Church of Scotland","year":1648}]},"year":1647,"edition":"Robert Bostock’s printing, [1649] (British Library, Thomason E.1419[1])","source":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240926909","image":null,"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":null,"commentaries":["explicatory1675","flavel1692","vincent1673","alleine1672","lye1672","whyte1883","henry1703","watson1692","binning1659"],"translations":[],"related":[{"document":"bc1695","relation":"adapted-by"},{"document":"wlc","relation":"parallel"},{"document":"wsc-modernized","relation":"same"}],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"The Confession of Faith and Catechisms, Agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, together with their Humble Advice concerning Church Government and Ordination of Ministers","edition":"Robert Bostock’s printing, [1649] (British Library, Thomason E.1419[1])","published":1649,"place":"London","catalog":["Wing C5760","ESTC R210325"],"original":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240926909","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/68b4bcd38e64532c75e21970d9866db3a0d0611b2c49b0e2e0d34c4327e2ad28/westminster-assembly-confession-of-faith-and-catechisms-1649.pdf","sha256":"68b4bcd38e64532c75e21970d9866db3a0d0611b2c49b0e2e0d34c4327e2ad28","pdf_source":null},"transcription":{"from":"unknown","checked":[{"against":"eebo-tcp:A80320","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs of questions 42–107, and 26 and 38"},{"against":"eebo-tcp:A74916","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"the proofs of questions 42–107, where A80320 is garbled"},{"against":"scan","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-28","scope":"all 107 questions and answers, word by word, and every proof, against the PDF (pages 153–176, the PDF’s 77–89), with the printings of [1646] (B03538), 1658 (A74916) and 1671 (A34242) where ours and the 1649 differ; the differences, and what was corrected, are in WITNESSES.md"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"The text is not the 1649 printing’s respelled but the modern one American Presbyterian churches print, word for word the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s (https://opc.org/sc.html) but in “reverend” (54, the 1658 printing’s word) and “all miseries” (19, every printing’s); who made it, and from what, is unknown. Against the 1649 printing (*The Confession of Faith and Catechisms*, London, Robert Bostock, 1649; Wing C5760; EEBO-TCP A80320), 92 of the 107 questions have the same words, spelling, capitals and punctuation aside; in 7 ours has another printing’s reading (54 “reverend … Word”, 55 “maketh”, 57 “thy stranger”, 61 “our worldly”, 69 “or whatsoever”, 98 “unto God”, 103 “in earth”), in 7 the modern text’s (2 “Scriptures … Testaments”, 12 “the knowledge”, 32 “and sanctification”, 38 “the full enjoying”, 47 “giving of”, 58 “set times”, and “and ordinary” in 88’s question), and in 67 the 1649 misprints “shall”. On 2026-10-28 two slips of ours that no printing has were corrected (“Wherein” in 41’s question, “for the worthy receiving” in 97’s), and Ephesians 1:11 restored to 7. The proofs are the Assembly’s, under the 1649 printing’s letters: 1–41 as they came, 42–107 set from A80320 and corrected from the 1658 (A74916) where the transcription is garbled, as the commit that added them lists. Ours differs from the 1649 margin where it misprints (in 13 questions, a verse that doesn’t exist or the wrong book), and in 1 (Psalm 73:25–28, 1649 73:24–28), 27 (1 Corinthians 15:3–4, 1649 15:3), 56 (1 Samuel 2:24, 1649 2:29) and 74–75 (four references under 74, as in 1658, where 1649 has them under 75). `catechisms/wsc/WITNESSES.md` has it all. The witness is that printing, the nearest known, though not the text’s source. 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V3v), with the Western “and the Son” (*filioque*) and without “holy” before “Catholick”. The printing is black letter; its long s is printed s, and its u and v as we write them. The 1693 printing (Wing B3687, EEBO-TCP A28758) has the same words, but “Catholic”. 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He reads “in two natures” (ἐν δύο φύσεσιν), as the Latin does. 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Wing, ESTC and EEBO-TCP catalogue it under Thomas Vincent, but it is not his *Explicatory Catechism* (1673), “Wherein all the Answers in the Assemblies Catechism are taken abroad in Under-Questions and Answers”, which asks and answers other questions. Imported from EEBO-TCP A64986 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary`), and not yet proofread against the scan. The scan is EEBO’s film of Wing V434, at archive.org, with Henry Mortlock’s imprint of 1675, despite its identifier’s “1475-1640”; archive.org’s other film of 1675 (`bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-explicatory-catechism_vincent-thomas_1675`) is Wing V434A, and the printing of 1687 Wing V435."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":107,"url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675"},{"id":"flavel1692","kind":"commentary","title":"An Exposition of the Assembly’s Catechism","short":null,"aliases":["An Exposition of the Assemblies Catechism","with Practical Inferences from each Question"],"authors":["John Flavel"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1688,"first_published":1692,"adopted":[]},"year":1692,"edition":"Thomas Cockerill’s printing, 1692","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-exposition-of-the-ass_flavell-john_1692","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/flavel1692.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"John Flavel, head and shoulders in a skullcap and bands, an engraving","credit":"Engraving by Michael Vandergucht, 1691 (Rijksmuseum)","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_John_Flavel,_RP-P-1909-1079.jpg","license":"CC0-1.0"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"wsc","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"An Exposition of the Assemblies Catechism, with Practical Inferences From each Question. 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The preface says Flavel finished only to the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer: the last five questions (103–107) “were done by a ruder hand”. Each of the Shorter Catechism’s questions is an entry, with its answer, and Flavel’s questions and answers, his “inferences” among them, under it; question 4’s attributes, and the parts into which questions 20, 22, 28, 36, 37, 38, 86 and 96 are divided, are entries of their own on the same question. Questions 8 and 46–48 have none; 17 and 18, 40 and 41, 43 and 44, and the commandments’ questions, share one. The printing sets its proofs in the text, each reference after the words it proves and the verse quoted after it: here the reference is the segment’s `proofs`, and the verse a segment without. Imported from EEBO-TCP A39662 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary`), its spelling kept, and the TCP’s • for what it couldn’t read filled from the scan, all but four (EMENDATIONS.md); not proofread against the scan word by word. The printing’s pages run from 112 to 121 with nothing wanting (page 112’s catchword is page 121’s first word, and its signature I follows H), though the film’s note says pages 113–120 are lacking."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":100,"url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692"},{"id":"vincent1673","kind":"commentary","title":"An Explicatory Catechism","short":null,"aliases":["An Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism","Vincent’s Explicatory Catechism"],"authors":["Thomas Vincent"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1673,"adopted":[]},"year":1673,"edition":"The first edition, printed for George Calvert, Thomas Parkhurst, Samuel Sprint and D. 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He wrote it for his own congregation, and printed it sheet by sheet as they learned it, then whole, as his epistle to its young ones (in later printings) says. Its epistle to the reader (`prose/`) is signed by John Owen, Thomas Manton, Thomas Watson, Thomas Brooks and thirty-six other ministers. This filmed copy lacks Vincent’s own epistles, to the masters of families and to the young ones of his congregation, which later printings have. There is no EEBO-TCP transcription (A64986, catalogued as his, is the anonymous `explicatory1675`), so the text was typed from the scan, page by page, with the OCR of an 1806 New York printing (archive.org `explicatorycatec00vinc`) and of the scan itself as drafts to start from: the 1673 is the authority for every word, and the 1806, which modernizes it and changes words and references, only supplies what the scan can’t show. Each entry is one of the catechism’s questions as Vincent prints it, his under-questions the items under it, with the labels “Quest.”, “Q.” and “A.” left out. Each Scripture reference is a segment’s `proofs`, and the segment runs to the end of the words he quotes from it (italic in the printing, without quotation marks here). `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the conventions and each correction: misprinted letters and words, words wanting, and the references that can’t be what was meant, corrected to the verse whose words are quoted. The PDF is ProQuest’s scan of EEBO’s film, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page: the text was read on it, and it is sharper than archive.org’s free scan of the same film ([bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-explicatory-catechism_vincent-thomas_1673](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_an-explicatory-catechism_vincent-thomas_1673))."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":107,"url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673"},{"id":"alleine1672","kind":"commentary","title":"A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism","short":null,"aliases":["A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assembly’s Shorter Catechism"],"authors":["Joseph Alleine"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1672,"adopted":[]},"year":1672,"edition":"The last edition, corrected and much amended, printed for Edward Brewster, 1674","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-most-familiar-explanat_alleine-joseph_1674","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/alleine1672.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"Joseph Alleine, head and shoulders in an oval, an engraving","credit":"Engraving, 17th century (Bibliothèque nationale de France)","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recueil._Portraits_de_Joseph_Allein_-_btv1b8529779f.jpg","license":"public-domain"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"wsc","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Most Familiar Explanation of the Assemblies Shorter Catechism. 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Allaine”. It breaks each of the Assembly’s answers into small questions, most answered “Yes”, “No” or a phrase, and gives no Scripture proofs of its own. Each entry is the question as Alleine prints it and the Assembly’s answer, with his questions under it. The earliest printing known is “London, Printed in the Year 1672” (archive.org, `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-most-familiar-explanat_alleine-joseph_1672`); Clavell’s catalogue of books printed from 1666 to 1672 lists one for George Calvert and Samuel Sprint, and Anthony Wood could not find when it was first printed. This text is Brewster’s of 1674, “The last Edition Corrected and much amended”, as EEBO-TCP transcribed it (A26693), and the scan is EEBO’s film of it. Its “Admonition to the Readers”, its “Useful Questions, Whereby a Christian may every day examine himself” and its letter to the people of Taunton are `prose/`; Brewster’s list of his books is left out. 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It sets out each of the Assembly’s answers, then draws it out into numbered propositions, each proved by a text or more printed at large, and divides the whole into thirty parts, a day’s reading each, marked in the margin. Each entry is the question as Lye prints it and its answer, and its day is the entry’s `part`. A lead (“Mans chief end is,”) is an item without a question, its propositions items without a question under it; a proposition’s references are its `proofs`, and its proof as printed, the reference and the verse, its `note`. The verses are as Lye prints them, not the KJV’s, and the words he sets in another letter to show where a text’s force lies are not marked. The earliest printing known is “London, Printed in the Year 1672” (archive.org, `bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-assemblies-shorter-c_lye-thomas_1672`). This text is the printing of 1674 as EEBO-TCP transcribed it (A49498), and the scan is EEBO’s film of it, dark, and cut off at the outer margin, where the TCP’s gaps are kept as it has them. Its “Plain Directions for the more profitable use of this Book” are `prose/directions`; its half-title and Thomas Parkhurst’s list of books are left out. Imported by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --propositions`), and proofread against the scan only where the import report pointed."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":107,"url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672"},{"id":"whyte1883","kind":"commentary","title":"A Commentary on the Shorter Catechism","short":null,"aliases":[],"authors":["Alexander Whyte"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1883,"adopted":[]},"year":1883,"edition":"T. & T. 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The imprint is undated; it is the first edition of 1883 (it quotes a speech of 28 June 1883, and the series’ list names Lindsay’s *Mark* of 1883 as ready and Stalker’s *Life of St. Paul*, of 1884, as coming shortly). The printing sets each question and answer with the Assembly’s proof texts, their verses quoted, before Whyte’s commentary on it; those are the Shorter Catechism’s own (`wsc`), so they, and the Assembly’s note on the first answer, are left out, and an entry is Whyte’s commentary alone, in Markdown: his notes on the answer’s words (in bold, as he sets them), his “Uses” and his “Questions” for study, each a heading over a numbered list, verse set off as a block quote, and his references to Scripture as he prints them. Where he prints several questions together and comments on them at once, they are one entry: 8–9, 43–44, 45–48, 49–52, 53–56, 57–58, 63–66, 67–69, 70–72, 73–75, 76–78 and 79–81, so 82 entries cover the 107 questions. The scan is Princeton Theological Seminary’s copy, at archive.org (catalogued there, wrongly, as 1856); the University of Toronto’s (`commentaryonshor00whytuoft`) is the same issue."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":82,"url":"/api/v1/documents/whyte1883"},{"id":"henry1703","kind":"commentary","title":"A Scripture Catechism","short":null,"aliases":["A Scripture-Catechism","in the Method of the Assemblies","A Scripture Catechism","in the Method of the Assembly’s"],"authors":["Matthew Henry"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":1702,"first_published":1703,"adopted":[]},"year":1703,"edition":"Printed by R. 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An answer’s reference is the proof of the words before it, and taken out of the text; where an answer quotes two places, each is a segment. No questions are joined, though the printing heads both questions 36 and 37 “Qu. 37.”. The text was transcribed from the scan, ECCO’s film of ESTC N21647, with the printing’s spelling, capitals and punctuation, but not its italics (the words of Scripture) or black letter (*Yes*, *No*); the epistle, set in italic, has its roman words in italics here. The film shoots pp. 112–113 twice (PDF pages 114–115), so that from PDF page 116 the printed page is the PDF page less two; pp. 159–164 are misnumbered. The binding hides three to five letters at the inner edge of many lines; these were supplied from what shows, the KJV, and the 1846 reprint at archive.org (*The Westminster Assembly’s Shorter Catechism, with which is incorporated a Scripture Catechism*), and the few that couldn’t be are •. Fifty references, which the printing gets wrong (most a misprinted chapter or verse) or the binding hides, are corrected, and listed in the commit that added it. It is after EEBO’s range, and no TCP transcription of it was found; it is reprinted in Henry’s *Miscellaneous Works*."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":107,"url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703"},{"id":"watson1692","kind":"commentary","title":"A Body of Practical Divinity","short":null,"aliases":["A Body of Divinity"],"authors":["Thomas Watson"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1692,"adopted":[]},"year":1692,"edition":"Thomas Parkhurst’s printing, 1692 (Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary)","source":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2248552422","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/watson1692.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"Thomas Watson, head and shoulders in a skullcap and gown, an engraving","credit":"Engraving by Hubert Schaten, 17th century","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Watson-thomas-3a6a8c-1024.jpg","license":"public-domain"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"wsc","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Body of Practical Divinity, Consisting of above One Hundred Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster. 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Later printings divide it as *A Body of Divinity*, *The Ten Commandments* and *The Lord’s Prayer*. Each entry is one of its sermons as the printing sets it, its `text` Markdown, its margin notes footnotes; four (083–086) begin where the printing sets a catechism question in black letter in the middle of one. Its `questions` are the catechism’s it treats, by its subject: Watson prints the first twenty-one, numbered his own way, and few after; he treats no question 32, 91 or 107 (his Lord’s Prayer ends with the sixth petition). An entry the printing heads only with its text is titled by its running head. The front matter and the supplement are `prose/`; the title page, the index of matters and Parkhurst’s catalogue of books are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A65285 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --sermons`), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, 〈…〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek and Hebrew), but where the scan was read. `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the conventions (the TCP sets I for the printing’s italic J, here J) and every correction. The printing’s page numbers jump from 144 to 201 (printed “101”), 300 to 331, 544 to 801 and 880 to 965 with nothing wanting. The PDF is ProQuest’s scan of EEBO’s film, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each page: the text was checked on it, and it is sharper than archive.org’s free scan of the same film ([bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-body-of-practical-divi_watson-thomas_1692](https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-body-of-practical-divi_watson-thomas_1692))."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":101,"url":"/api/v1/documents/watson1692"},{"id":"beddome1752","kind":"commentary","title":"A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism","short":null,"aliases":["A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism","by Way of Question and Answer","Beddome’s Exposition"],"authors":["Benjamin Beddome"],"tradition":["baptist","reformed"],"language":"en","translation":null,"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1752,"adopted":[]},"year":1752,"edition":"Harrold & Murray’s printing, 1849 (University of Virginia Library’s copy, digitized by Google)","source":"https://archive.org/details/a-scriptural-exposition-of-the-baptism-c","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/beddome1752.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"Title page of Beddome’s Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism (Richmond, 1849), the printing this text follows; no portrait of Benjamin Beddome is known","credit":"Title page, Harrold & Murray, Richmond, 1849 (Google’s scan of the University of Virginia’s copy)","source":"https://archive.org/details/a-scriptural-exposition-of-the-baptism-c","license":"public-domain"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"bc1695","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"A Scriptural Exposition of the Baptist Catechism, by Way of Question and Answer. 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The first edition (London: John Ward, 1752) is the British Library’s copy at [Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=fWWSmH0vc0wC); the second, corrected (Bristol: W. Pine, 1776), is on archive.org (`bim_eighteenth-century_a-scriptural-exposition-_beddome-benjamin_1776_3`). This text follows neither, but the American edition of 1849, with J. L. Reynolds’s introduction (left out here): its “call the sabbath honorable and honor him” (question 65) is 1849’s, where 1776 has “honourable and honour”. In places its spelling is modern where 1849’s isn’t (“practiced” for “practised”, “installment” for “instalment”). Each entry is one of the catechism’s questions; the printing’s question and answer at its head, the catechism’s own, are left out. Each paragraph (marked § in the printing) is an item, its first question, with the paragraph’s other questions under it; each answer (“Yes.”, “No.”) is a segment, and the verse that proves it another, its reference the proofs, as `Isaiah 44:6` for the printing’s “Isa. xliv. 6.”; its six footnotes are those segments’ notes. Who made the text, and from what, is unknown: it came into this repository in July 2026, as bc1695’s `beddome/`, and has not been proofread against the scan. Its references are as it had them, and some were misread from the printing’s: “Psa. cx. 1.” is “Exodus 1” in questions 9 and 31, and twelve name only a chapter; and some sixty name a verse other than the one whose words are quoted (“My counsel shall stand”, Isaiah 46:10, is “Isaiah 45:10” in question 11), whether by the printing’s slips or the transcription’s isn’t known. /api/v1 answers it as `bc1695`’s `expositions` too, the shape it had there; the scan is Google’s, of the University of Virginia’s copy, also at [Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=16c9AAAAYAAJ)."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":114,"url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752"},{"id":"dickson1684","kind":"commentary","title":"Truths Victory over Error","short":null,"aliases":["Truth’s Victory over Error"],"authors":["David Dickson"],"tradition":["reformed","presbyterian"],"language":"en","translation":{"from":"la","of":null,"by":"George Sinclair","year":1684},"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1684,"adopted":[]},"year":1684,"edition":"John Reid’s printing, Edinburgh, 1684","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_truths-victory-over-erro_dickson-david_1684","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/dickson1684.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"Title page of Dickson’s Truths Victory over Error (Edinburgh, 1684), the printing this text follows; no portrait of David Dickson is known","credit":"Title page, printed by John Reid, Edinburgh, 1684 (EEBO’s film)","source":"https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_truths-victory-over-erro_dickson-david_1684","license":"public-domain"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"wcf1646","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"Truths Victory over Error. 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Imported from EEBO-TCP A35959 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --on wcf1646 --italic-j`), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, ▪, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek), but where the scan was read. `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the conventions (the TCP sets I for the printing’s italic J, here J) and every correction. 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He expounds the Creed article by article, each part’s doctrine, then its comforts and duties, as his “Resolution of the Creede” divides it. Each entry is the exposition of one of `apostles`’s twelve clauses, from the paragraph where Perkins takes up its words (“Now followeth … in these words, *Conceiued by the holy Ghost, borne of the Virgin Marie*”); its `text` is Markdown, its margin notes footnotes. The printing has no headings in the exposition but “God, the Father Almightie.” (a heading in entry 1); an entry is titled by its clause. 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Its `questions` are the catechism’s it treats, by its subject: Binning prints none of them, and goes as far as question 20 (the covenant of grace, in the last sermon, on 1 Tim. 1:15); none treats question 14, what sin is, apart from the fall and Adam’s first sin. “To the Reader” and the contents are `prose/`; the title page and the colophon are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A28171 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --on wsc --sermons --italic-j`), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek and Hebrew), but where the scan was read. `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the conventions and every correction. 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By Iohn Fielde","edition":"Printed by H. Middleton, for Thomas Man, and Tobie Smith, 1581 (Henry E. 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Olevianus reads the Creed as the articles of God’s free covenant with the faithful, in four parts (the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, the Church). Each entry is an article as the printing heads it with the Creed’s words (“In God the father”, “Crucified”), with the sections he sets after it (testimonies out of the Prophets and Apostles, the meaning, the fruits), its `text` Markdown, those sections `##` headings and the margin notes footnotes; its `clauses` the clause it expounds, so that clause 4 has five, and its `part` the printing’s heading of the part, where it prints one. The first entry, the introduction before the first article (the kingdom of Christ, the covenant, what faith is, the rules for every article), is on all twelve clauses; the second, “I beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth”, which treats the Trinity and the Son’s and the Holy Ghost’s Godhead at length, is on clauses 1, 2 and 8. The two dedications, Olevianus’s epistle to the youth and the errata are `prose/`; the title page is left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A08483 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --on apostles --sermons`), from a copy of the TEI laid out by the articles, keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (〈◊〉, 〈…〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek), but where the scan was read; the errata are not made in the text. `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the layout, the conventions and every correction. The scan is EEBO’s film of the Huntington Library’s copy, which the TCP transcribed, page for page; archive.org files it among the books of 1641–1700. A Xerox of a film of the same copy is also on archive.org ([exsymb00olev](https://archive.org/details/exsymb00olev))."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":25,"url":"/api/v1/documents/olevianus1581"},{"id":"ursinus1587","kind":"commentary","title":"The Summe of Christian Religion","short":null,"aliases":["The Summe of Christian Religion … Deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his Lectures vpon the Catechism","Doctrinae Christianae Compendium","Ursinus’s Lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism"],"authors":["Zacharias Ursinus"],"tradition":["reformed"],"language":"en","translation":{"from":"la","of":null,"by":"Henry Parry","year":1587},"dates":{"written":null,"first_published":1587,"adopted":[]},"year":1587,"edition":"The first edition of Parry’s translation, printed by Joseph Barnes, sold in Paul’s Churchyard at the sign of the Tiger’s Head, 1587 (Huntington Library)","source":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240904803","image":{"url":"/downloads/v1/images/ursinus1587.jpg","width":200,"height":250,"alt":"Zacharias Ursinus, head and shoulders in a cap, with a long beard, an engraving","credit":"Engraving, from Het Schat-Boeck, 1647","source":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zacharias_Ursinus.png","license":"public-domain"},"modernized":null,"exposition":null,"on":"heidelberg","commentaries":[],"translations":[],"related":[],"provenance":{"witness":{"title":"The Summe of Christian Religion: Deliuered by Zacharias Vrsinus in his Lectures vpon the Catechism autorised by the noble Prince Frederick, throughout his dominions: Wherein are debated and resolued the Questions of whatsoeuer points of moment, which haue beene or are controuersed in Diuinitie. Translated into English by Henrie Parrie, out of the last & best Latin Editions, together with some supplie of wants out of his Discourses of Diuinitie, and with correction of sundrie faults & imperfections, which ar as yet remaining in the best corrected Latine","edition":"The first edition of Parry’s translation, printed by Joseph Barnes, sold in Paul’s Churchyard at the sign of the Tiger’s Head, 1587 (Huntington Library)","published":1587,"place":"Oxford","catalog":["STC 24532","ESTC S118924"],"original":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240904803","pdf":"https://assets.symbolics.dev/a770cca31562bb5f2e23faf98520b436bf11a9bb442637c008f9b6416e55cd52/ursinus-summe-of-christian-religion-1587.pdf","sha256":"a770cca31562bb5f2e23faf98520b436bf11a9bb442637c008f9b6416e55cd52","pdf_source":null},"transcription":{"from":"eebo-tcp:A14216","checked":[{"against":"https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240904803","by":"Claude, for cco3","date":"2026-10-30","scope":"every page of the catechism (pp. 1–2, 58–59, 204–224 and 811–824), word by word, with every margin reference and where each proof letter stands; every heading; and twenty-five pages drawn at random, word by word; every reference the importer couldn’t read, or read out of the Bible"}]},"license":"public-domain","notes":"Zacharias Ursinus (1534–1583), the Heidelberg Catechism’s chief author, lectured on it at Heidelberg; his students’ notes of the lectures were printed in Latin from 1584 (*Doctrinae Christianae Compendium*), and Henry Parry (1561–1616), then of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, later bishop of Worcester, put them into English as *The Summe of Christian Religion*, “out of the last & best Latin Editions”, in 1587, the first of many English printings (David Pareus’s enlarged edition, in English from 1645, is EEBO-TCP A64611). It prints the catechism in four runs (questions 1–2; 3–11, the misery of man; 12–85, his deliverance; 86–129, his thankfulness), each followed by Ursinus’s lectures on it in common places, which ask their own chief questions (“1 What sinne is”) and answer objections. Each of the 129 questions is an entry, as Parry prints it, its answer cut at the proof letters into segments, the letters’ references the proofs; each common place (78 of them, with the openings of the parts) is an entry whose `text` is Markdown, its margin notes footnotes, on the questions it treats, set by its subject; each entry’s `part` is the book’s part. The dedication to the Earl of Pembroke and Parry’s epistle to the reader are `prose/`; the title page and the table of common places are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A14216 by `scripts/import-tcp.mjs` (`--kind commentary --on heidelberg --lectures --italic-j`), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, ▪, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek and Hebrew), but where the scan was read. `EMENDATIONS.md` gives the conventions, which questions each lecture is on, and every correction: the TCP’s misreadings and gaps, and the printing’s references that can’t be right. The PDF is ProQuest’s scan of EEBO’s film of the Huntington copy, the TCP’s film, with ProQuest’s credit line taken off each image; archive.org’s film catalogued as this printing (`bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_the-summe-of-christian-r_ursinus-zacharias_1587`) is the edition of 1591."},"chapter_count":0,"paragraph_count":0,"question_count":0,"clause_count":0,"entry_count":207,"url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587"}]