Westminster Shorter Q91
Source: Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647) (Q91) · catechism
How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them; but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working of his Spirit in them that by faith receive them.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Westminster Assembly minutes (Mitchell & Struthers, 1874)
- critical_edition: Free Presbyterian Publications — Westminster Standards
- republication: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- republication: OPC — Westminster Shorter Catechism
- republication: PCA — Westminster Shorter Catechism with proof texts
- proof_text: Scripture proof texts assembled by Westminster Assembly
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