Reformed confessions of faith


Reformed confessions of faith are the confessions of faith of various Reformed churches. These documents express consensus on doctrine for the church adopting the confession. A few confessions are shared as subordinate standards by many denominations, which have made their choices from among the various creeds for primarily historical reasons. Some of the common Reformed confessions are :

Continental Reformed

Presbyterian

The Independents declined from Reformed theology on issues of the role of the magistrate, and the powers of higher church courts, but retained the Calvinist system touching many other issues.
Some of the Baptist churches came alongside the Puritan movement in England, and in doing so sought to agree as far as conscience allowed, in the Calvinistic form of doctrine which prevailed among the Presbyterians and many Congregationalists. Except for their few exceptions concerning congregational church governance and adult baptism, these "Particular" Baptists adopted the Reformed faith.
The Anglican church is not a confessional church in the same way that the Lutheran Church is. Anglican doctrine is most defined by Lex orandi, lex credendi.
The "Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists or the Presbyterians of Wales" was adopted at the Associations of
Aberystwyth and Bala in the year 1823.