Confession of Faith
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in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
A doctrinal statement to be agreed by the Protector and Parliament and held forth as the nation's public religious profession.
and that a Confession of Faith, to be agreed by your Highness and the Parliament, according to the rule and warrant of the Scriptures, be asserted, held forth, and recommended to the people of these nations, that none may be suffered or permitted, by opprobrious words or writing, maliciously or contemptuously to revile or reproach the Confession of Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid;
De Fuga in Persecutione
The public acknowledgment of Christian faith under persecution, presented as the required and rewarded response.
"He who shall confess Me, I too will confess him before My Father.
But if you are unsure, why, from the equality of an uncertain fear between either outcome, do you not also presume that you can confess and rather be saved—the less you flee—just as you presume that you will deny, so as to flee?