Modifications

Most of these modifications, except for Chapter 22.8, are minor. For instance, the only change to 18.3 is the addition of the word "so" in the first line, as it is in the original 1689. What you read here are the entire sections as modified. This is also how they read if you go to the appropriate section on this website. However, we have also collected all the modified sections to this one page for the convenience of those who want to see them all together.

  CHAPTER 18

3. This infallible assurance of faith does not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait for a long time, and struggle with many difficulties, before he attains to it. It is not a matter of extraordinary revelation, for if he makes a right use of the means of grace, and is enabled by the Spirit to know the things that believers receive freely from God, he may well attain to it. It therefore becomes the duty of every one to be as diligent as possible in making his calling and election sure. By doing this he will experience greater peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, greater love and thankfulness to God, and an increased strength and cheerfulness in dutiful obedience. These things are the natural outcome of the assurance of salvation, and they constitute strong evidence that assurance does not lead men into loose living.

Ps. 77:1-12; Ps. 88; 119:32; Isa. 50: 10; Rom. 5:1, 2, 5; 6:1, 2; 14:17; Titus 2:11, 12, 14; Heb. 6:11,12; 1 John 4:13.

CHAPTER 22

7. As it is a law of nature, applicable to all, that a proportion of time, determined by God, should be allocated for the worship of God, so, by His Word, he has particularly appointed one day in seven to be kept as a holy day to Himself.  Since the time of the New Testament, in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, this day has been the first day of the week, and designated "the Lord's day." The great privilege and priority on the Lord's day is to worship God with His people.

Exo. 20:8; Lk. 24:1-6; Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; Heb. 10:25; Rev. 1: 10.

8. Men kept the Old Testament Sabbath holy to the Lord when, having duly prepared their hearts and settled their mundane affairs beforehand, for the sake of the Lord's command they set aside all their works, words and thoughts that pertained to their worldly employment and recreations, and devoted the whole of the Lord's day to the public and private exercises of worship, and to duties of necessity and mercy.  We are to observe the first day of the week by evaluating every activity by the fact that it is the Lord's day.

Neh. 13:15-22; Isa. 58:13; Heb. 10:25; Rev. 1: 10.

CHAPTER 26

4. The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the church. By the appointment of the Father, all authority requisite for the calling, establishment, ordering and governing of the church is supremely and sovereignly invested in Him. It is impossible for the Pope of Rome in any true sense to be the head of the church.

Matt. 28:19-20; Eph. 4:11, 12; Col. 1: 18

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