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Confession of the Evangelical Free Church of Geneva. A.D. 1848.

[The Free Church of Geneva seceded from the established Church of the city of Calvin, and issued in 1848 the following Confession of Faith. It fairly represents the doctrinal position of other Free Churches which have been organized in Switzerland and France in opposition to the degenerate Reformed State Churches. It exhibits the Calvinism of the nineteenth century—a Calvinism moderated, simplified, and separated from connection with the civil government.

The French text is taken from the Notice Historique sur l’église évangelique libre de Genève par E. Guers, Genève, 1875, pp. 86–90. It is also found, together with a Presbyterian constitution and a hymn-book, in Église evangelique a Genève; Recueil de Cantiques pour les assemblées de culte, etc. Genève and Lyon, 1864.

The English translation was prepared for this work by my friend, Professor Elie Charlier, of New York.]