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The Three Forms of Unity
The confessional standards subscribed by the continental Reformed churches.
- The Belgic Confession1561Full textGuido de Brès’s confession of the Reformed faith in the Low Countries.
- The Heidelberg Catechism1563Full textThe warm catechism of comfort, in 129 questions across 52 Lord’s Days.
- The Canons of Dort1619Full textThe international synod’s answer to Arminianism: the five points of grace.
The Westminster Standards
The confession and catechisms subscribed by Presbyterian churches.
- The Westminster Confession of Faith1646Full textThe mature confession of the Westminster Assembly.
- The Westminster Shorter Catechism1647Full textThe concise catechism that begins with our chief end: to glorify God.
- The Westminster Larger Catechism1648Full textThe fuller Westminster catechism for preaching and instruction.
Early Reformed Confessions and Catechisms
The first confessions of the Reformation era. Those marked Full text are hosted here in complete, faithful English editions.
- The Sixty-Seven Articles of Zwingli1523Full textZwingli’s founding theses for the Zurich disputation, the seed of the Swiss Reformation.
- The Ten Theses of Bern1528Full textThe ten conclusions that won Bern for the Reformation.
- The Marburg Articles1529Full textThe fifteen articles from the colloquy of Luther and Zwingli; agreement on fourteen, and an open division on the Lord’s Supper.
- The First Helvetic Confession1536Full textThe first confession to speak for all the Swiss cantons at once.
- The Second Helvetic Confession1566Full textBullinger’s mature confession, adopted across Reformed Europe.
- The Catechism of the Church of Geneva1545Full textCalvin’s catechism for teaching the faith in Geneva, in 374 questions.
- The Consensus Tigurinus1549Full textCalvin and Bullinger’s agreement on the Lord’s Supper that united the Swiss churches.
- The French Confession of Faith1559Full textThe confession of the French Reformed churches, drafted with Calvin’s hand.
- The Helvetic Consensus Formula (1675)1675Full textThe last of the classic Reformed confessions (1675), drawn up to defend high Calvinism against the Saumur theology of Amyraut, Cappel, and La Place. A new English translation for Reformed Dogmatika from the public-domain Latin, with Schaff’s historical introduction.
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