According to the opening lines of the Confession (1689.1.1, Of The Holy Scriptures), Scripture is the only sufficiency. Before speaking of its certainty and infallibility, the authors communicated sufficiency. And also this entire opening phrase in the 1689 is not in the the Westminster Confession. Well, how interesting! I like this. Here is an immediate statement about the Word of God – what it is. It makes sense because the phrase beginning with “although” (see Westminster) should follow some introductory clause. And so we have the 1689’s opening lines. How beautiful and right.
The Beginning
1689.4.1 (Of Creation) states that it simply pleased God in the beginning for the manifestation of the glory of his power, wisdom and goodness to create the world in six days.
What more do we need?
God Not The Author Of Sin
God is never the Author of sin, but He is always the Avenger of sin
Providence Defined
Bavinck defines God’s providence this way:
“According to Scripture, providence is that act of God, by which, from moment to moment, he preserves and governs all things.”
(Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2, p. 596)
Faith
“Faith is the condition of our reception of life (Gal. 3:22). No person can quicken themselves; this is a thing the law is incapable of, and hence no good deed can obtain it for us (Gal. 3:21). It is the Holy Spirit who does the work in us.”
B B Warfield (Selected Shorter Writings)
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