The confession of faith of Westminster is one of many evangelical creeds that give articles of faith based on sola scriptura rather than on the living experience of the Church.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

But the right baptism of Christ, which is preceded by teaching and oral confession of faith, I teach, and say that infant baptism is a robbery of the right baptism of Christ ...

When the statement of faith is longer and polemical, as well as didactic, it is not called a creed but a confession of faith.

The good confession has to demonstrate a basic understanding of the main elements-" first principles "-of the faith of the community.

* Eusebius ' confession of faith

Cornwall invited Gardner to make the Shahada, the Muslim confession of faith, which he did ; it allowed him to gain the trust of locals, although would he would never become a practicing Muslim.

When a union of the evangelicals in upper and lower Germany was contemplated as a means of improved defense against the retaliatory measures of the Roman Catholic Church, George had a meeting with Elector John of Saxony at Schleitz in 1529, where they agreed on certain articles of faith and confession to be drawn up by Luther ; the commission was executed in the seventeen articles of Schwabach on the basis of the fifteen theses of the Marburg Colloquy.

A Reformed confession of faith rejecting papal jurisdiction was adopted by Parliament in 1560, while the young Mary, Queen of Scots, was still in France.

In 1596 he drew up a confession of their faith, reissued in Latin in 1598 and dedicated to the various universities of Europe ( including St Andrews, Scotland ).

Throughout the fall of 1536, Farel drafted a confession of faith while Calvin wrote separate articles on reorganizing the church in Geneva.

The document described the manner and frequency of their celebrations of the eucharist, the reason for and the method of excommunication, the requirement to subscribe to the confession of faith, the use of congregational singing in the liturgy, and the revision of marriage laws.

The council was reluctant to enforce the subscription requirement, as only a few citizens had subscribed to their confession of faith.

In 1559, he drafted the French confession of faith, the Gallic Confession, and the synod in Paris accepted it with few changes.

The Belgic Confession of 1561, a Dutch confession of faith, was partly based on the Gallic Confession.

Justinian delivered to the Pope a written confession of faith, which the latter accepted with the proviso that " although he could not admit in a layman the right of teaching religion, yet he observed with pleasure that the zeal of the Emperor was in perfect accord with the decisions of the Fathers ".

Indeed, adult candidates for baptism are required by most branches that practice pedobaptism to make a confession of faith before baptism.

Caelestius refused to condemn these propositions, at the same time declaring in general that he accepted the doctrine expounded in the letters of Pope Innocent and making a confession of faith which was approved.

Soon after this Zosimus received from Pelagius a confession of faith, together with a new treatise on free will.

This sparked a period of ecumenical activism which culminated in the UPCUSA's development of the Confession of 1967 which was the church's first new confession of faith in three centuries.

So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory.

Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk.

Knox and five other ministers were called upon to draw up a new confession of faith.

He later recanted his confession and Canadian authorities dismissed his story as not credible.

Warren was convicted ( in 1995 ) largely due to his confession to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which some groups, particularly those connected with organized labour, have claimed was false.

Throughout his introduction, Vanderhaeghe also argues that " The Wars is the finest historical novel ever written by a Canadian ," ending with the personal confession that " The Wars has always been, and shall remain for me, the loveliest, the most moving of novels.

This confession was adopted in 1995 by the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church at Wichita, Kansas.

Their confession of faith reveals the churches of the US Conference accept God in three persons ; the divinity, humanity, virgin birth, atonement, resurrection, ascension and return of Jesus ; the Bible as the inspired word of God ; the fall of man and his salvation through the atoning work of Christ ; the Lord's Day ( Sunday ) as a day of worship ; and the resurrection of all men, either to eternal punishment or eternal happiness with God.

Up until this time, the Swiss Brethren ( who did not use the name " Mennonite " for themselves ) had no official confession of faith beyond the Schleitheim Confession.

The first confession of faith of the Mennonite Brethren was written in 1873, revised in 1900 and published in 1902.

Cooperation among Mennonite congregations throughout the empire became necessary for dealing with common interests such as publishing a hymnal, adopting a confession of faith, preserving the German language, education and running the forestry service, an alternative to military service.

Tabor is currently owned and operated by the Mennonite Brethren Church and follows the confession of faith of that church.

His ancestors had been members of the community of the Bohemian Brethren, and had clandestinely maintained their Protestant belief throughout the period of religious persecution, eventually giving their adherence to the Augsburg confession as approximate to their original faith.

* The Schleitheim Confession of the Anabaptist Swiss Brethren drawn up in 1527-( being Anabaptist, this confession was not Protestant in the usual sense );

In the Eastern Churches, clergy often make their confession in the sanctuary.

Many mainline Protestant Churches include corporate confession in regular worship.

The theologies of Presbyterian and Reformed Free Churches in this tradition are in flux, and recent agreements, especially A Formula for Agreement, between these denominations and the Lutherans have stressed that: " The theological diversity within our common confession provides both the complementarity needed for a full and adequate witness to the gospel ( mutual affirmation ) and the corrective reminder that every theological approach is a partial and incomplete witness to the Gospel ( mutual admonition ) ( A Common Calling, page 66 ).

They also believed that confirmation for youth was not necessary and communion and confession would only be held a few times a year.

While on the Peleliu, he signed confession documents while he was held by the United States Marine Corps and informed his interrogators that he was not merely Taliban but al-Qaeda, though his father later asserted he was not involved in, and unaware of, al-Qaeda.

In Connelly, the Court held that " Coercive police activity is a necessary predicate to a finding that a confession is not ' voluntary ' within the meaning of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Instead of securing the tie with knots, the constable held on to the free end of the rope and walked behind the prisoner to keep him or her under control as the prisoner was taken for an interrogation which could involve the application of one or more forms of judicial torture to elicit a confession.

Gerry and his friend are interrogated by police who torture and threaten them until both finally agree to sign a confession after being held for up to seven days under the Prevention of Terrorism Acts 1974-1989.

If there is a full confession, and the defendant agrees to it, the trial may be held before a single professional judge who hears the case and determines sentencing.

However, the confession must be held in strict confidence unless the sinner grants permission to disclose it to the disciplinary council.

The Reformers ( e. g. Puritans ), upholding the doctrine of justification by faith, held that repentance consisted in a change of the whole moral attitude of the mind and soul ( Matthew 13: 15 ; Luke 22: 32 ), and that the divine forgiveness preceded true repentance and confession to God without any reparation of " works.

But Ann Veronica is undeterred by his confession and his prudence, and finally Capes's resistance buckles: " She stood up and held her arms toward him.

( Peirce held that one cannot have absolute theoretical assurance of having actually reached the truth, and later said that the confession of inaccuracy and one-sidedness is an essential ingredient of a true abstract statement.

Although the attitude of the Wittenberg theologians frustrated his attempts to bring about harmonious relations, and although the situation was further complicated by the position of Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who demanded a uniform confession and a uniform church order, Philip held that the differences between the followers of Martin Bucer in and the followers of Luther in their sacramental theories admitted honest disagreement, and that Holy Scripture could not resolve the differences definitively.

During the period when coronations were held in Kraków, the following order was observed: on the eve of his coronation, the new monarch fasted, gave alms, and partook of the Catholic sacrament of confession.

A meeting of the plotters had been held at his house on 18 June ; but rather than escape, he chose to write to Jenkins, with the offer of a full confession in return for a pardon.

He held that lapsed Christians, who had not maintained their confession of faith under persecution, may not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

In a court session held at James Citye ( Jamestown on 7 May 1627, it was ruled that Roger Dilk ( by his own confession ) had absented himself from his plantation without the knowledge or leave of his commander contrary to an order of Court for the space of 8 days complete, and he was fined to pay 25 pounds of tobacco for every 24 hours he was absent, totaling the sum of 200 pounds of tobacco.

Saint Basil the Great († 379 ), a saint of undivided Christianity, writes in his Third Kneeling Prayer at Pentecost O Christ our God ...( who ) on this all-perfect and saving Feast, art graciously pleased to accept propitiatory prayers for those who are imprisoned in hades, promising unto us who are held in bondage great hope of release from the vilenes that doth hinder us and did hinder them ... send down Thy consolation ... and establish their souls in the mansions of the Just ; and graciously vouchsafe unto them peace and pardon ; for not the dead shall praise thee, O Lord, neither shall they who are in Hell make bold to offer unto thee confession.

In this statement the assembled prelates, while declaring their confession in " One God, the Father Almighty, and in His only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, generated from Him before the ages ," recommended the disuse of the terms ousia ( essence or substance ), homoousion ( identical in essence, or substance ), and homoiousion ( similar in essence, or substance ), " by which the minds of many are perturbed "; and they held that there " ought to be no mention of any of them at all, nor any exposition of them in the Church, and for this reason and for this consideration that there is nothing written about them in divine Scripture and that they are above men's knowledge and above men's understanding " ( Athan., De Syn., xxviii ; Soz., ii, xxx ; Hil., De Syn., xi ).

Escobedo appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, which initially held the confession inadmissible and reversed the conviction.

As such, he held the distinction between pre-and post-indictment to be immaterial, since the police and prosecutor elicited a confession after they had already gotten the damning statement necessary to indict Escobedo.

After some months the report appeared, saying that it had looked into the charges that members of the Society had practised an aggressive and offensive form of evangelism ; that individual privacy had been invaded ; that confessions of guilt had been required as a condition of Christian life ; that meetings had been held where mutual confession of intimate sins had been encouraged ; and that emphasis had been placed on confessions of sexual immorality.

After being held prisoner for 11 months, the crew was released and allowed to walk across the Bridge while a forced confession by the Captain of the vessel was broadcast over loudspeakers.

In the Warickshall case, evidence was gathered as a result of an involuntary confession, and the court held that the evidence ( but not the confession itself ) could be admitted.

Bayar was held in solitary confinement, was closely interrogated but not tortured, did not sign any confession, and was released after 11 days without charge after the U. S. State Department ( through the behind-the-scenes efforts of Bayar's wife Julia, a former Washington DC lobbyist, which secured the intercession of Bayar's local U. S. congressman and U. S. Senator Jack Reed ( D-RI ), a West Point classmate of Bayar's ) issued a formal demarche to the Saudi Government demanding consular access to Bayar.