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Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order

Savoy · 1658 · 33 chapters, 189 paragraphs

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By: Savoy Assembly
Dates: written 1658; first published 1658
Tradition: reformed, congregational
Also called: Savoy Declaration
Related: Revised by Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677); Revised by Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689); The same text as Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized, 1658); Revises Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)
Follows: A Declaration of the Faith and Order Owned and practiced in the Congregational Churches in England, John Field’s printing, 1659 (London); Wing N1487, ESTC R16855 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org
Transcribed: From EEBO-TCP A52591Checked against a copy at archive.org: where A52591 is illegible, wanting or misprintedChecked against EEBO-TCP A89790: 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.
Spelling: As printed; modernized in savoy1658-modernized
Side by side: Westminster, Savoy and the 1689
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Prefaces and appendices

A Preface

1
Of the holy Scripture
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10
2
Of God and of the holy Trinity
2.1 2.2 2.3
3
Of Gods Eternal Decree
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
4
Of Creation
4.1 4.2
5
Of Providence
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7
6
Of the fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof
6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6
7
Of Gods Covenant with Man
7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5
8
Of Christ the Mediator
8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8
9
Of Free-will
9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5
10
Of Effectual Calling
10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4
11
Of Justification
11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6
12
Of Adoption
12.1
13
Of Sanctification
13.1 13.2 13.3
14
Of saving Faith
14.1 14.2 14.3
15
Of Repentance unto life and salvation
15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5
16
Of good Works
16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7
17
Of the Perseverance of the Saints
17.1 17.2 17.3
18
Of the Assurance of Grace and Salvation
18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4
19
Of the Law of God
19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7
20
Of the Gospel, and of the extent of the Grace thereof
20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4
21
Of Christian Liberty, and Liberty of Conscience
21.1 21.2 21.3
22
Of religious Worship, and the Sabbath-day
22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8
23
Of lawful Oaths and Vows
23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6
24
Of the civil Magistrate
24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4
25
Of Marriage
25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4
26
Of the Church
26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5
27
Of the Communion of Saints
27.1 27.2
28
Of the Sacraments
28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 28.5
29
Of Baptism
29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 29.7
30
Of the Lords Supper
30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 30.6 30.7 30.8
31
Of the state of Man after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead
31.1 31.2 31.3
32
Of the last Judgement
32.1 32.2 32.3
33
Of the Institution of Churches, and the Order Appointed in them by Jesus Christ
33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 33.5 33.6 33.7 33.8 33.9 33.10 33.11 33.12 33.13 33.14 33.15 33.16 33.17 33.18 33.19 33.20 33.21 33.22 33.23 33.24 33.25 33.26 33.27 33.28 33.29 33.30

Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order

Prefaces and appendices

Contents