The books of the Old Testament: the five books of Moses, namely, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. These books are listed in the church of God as follows. We believe that the Holy Scriptures consist of two parts, namely, the Old and the New Testament, which are canonical, against which nothing can be alleged. 2 Therefore we call such writings holy and divine Scriptures. Thereafter, in His special care for us and our salvation, God commanded His servants, the prophets and apostles, to commit His revealed Word to writing 1 and He Himself wrote with His own finger the two tables of the law. We confess that this Word of God did not come by the impulse of man, but that men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God, as the apostle Peter says ( 2 Pet 1:21).

Second, He makes Himself more clearly and fully known to us by His holy and divine Word 2 as far as is necessary for us in this life, to His glory and our salvation. All these things are sufficient to convict men and leave them without excuse. We know Him by two means: First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe which is before our eyes as a most beautiful book, 1 wherein all creatures, great and small, are as so many letters leading us to perceive clearly the invisible things of God, namely, His eternal power and deity, as the apostle Paul says ( Rom 1:20). We all believe with the heart and confess with the mouth 1 that there is only one God, 2 who is a simple and spiritual Being 3 He is eternal, 4 incomprehensible, 5 invisible, 6 immutable, 7 infinite, 8 almighty, 9 perfectly wise, 10 just, 11 good, 12 and the overflowing fountain of all good.

Little red prayer book confessions