symbolics.dev

Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 16

Of Good Works

API: GET /api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/16.3

3. Their ability to doe good works, is not at all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ.a And that they may be inabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is required an actuall influence of the same holy Spirit, to work in them to will and to doe, of his good pleasure:b yet are they not hereupon to grow negligent, as if they were not bound to perform any duty, unlesse, upon a speciall motion of the Spirit; but, they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.c

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aJohn 15:4–5; Ezekiel 36:26–27
  2. bPhilippians 2:13; Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 3:5
  3. cPhilippians 2:12; Hebrews 6:11–12; 2 Peter 1:3; 2 Peter 1:5; 2 Peter 1:10–11; Isaiah 64:7; 2 Timothy 1:6; Acts 26:6–7; Jude 20–21

Commentary

Related texts

Side by side, with what differs marked: Westminster, Savoy and the 1689 · Westminster and the 1689

Cite this

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 16.3, symbolics.dev/wcf1646/16.3

Permalink: https://symbolics.dev/wcf1646/16.3

See a mistake? Report it, with what the printing has.