The Westminster Larger Catechism: (Presbyterian England): A.D. 1648:
Question 30: Doth God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
- God doth not leave all men to perish in the estate of sin and misery, into which they fell by the breach of the first covenant, commonly called the Covenant of Works; but of his mere love and mercy delivereth his elect out of it, and bringeth them into an estate of salvation by the second covenant, commonly called the Covenant of Grace.
Romans 3:20-22; Galatians 3:10,12,21; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; Titus 3:4-7.
The Waldensian Confession: (Reformed Italy): A.D. 1655:
Article XII: That Jesus Christ having been ordained by the eternal decree of God to be the only Saviour and only head of his body which is the Church, he redeemed it with his own blood in the fullness of time, and communicates unto the same all his benefits by means of the gospel.