1689 LBCF ch. 19: Of the Law of God
Source: 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (Chapter 19) · creed
God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The moral law is summed up in the Ten Commandments and remains forever in force.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Rufinus of Aquileia, Commentary on the Apostles' Creed (c. AD 404)
- manuscript_tradition: Pirminius, De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus (c. AD 750) — earliest received form
- translation: Latin (Symbolum Apostolicum) — Western Church
- citation_tradition: Cited by every major catechism since 8th century
- republication: CCEL — Creeds of Christendom (Schaff)
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