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Westminster Confession of Faith · Chapter 30

Of Church Censures

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2. To these Officers, the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven are committed: by vertue whereof, they have power, respectively, to retain, and remit sins; to shut that Kingdom against the impenitent, both by the Word, and Censures; and to open it unto penitent sinners, by the Ministry of the Gospel, and by Absolution from Censures, as occasion shall require.a

Proofs

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

  1. aMatthew 16:19; Matthew 18:17–18; John 20:20–23; 2 Corinthians 2:6–8

Commentary

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