The Belgic Confession, Article III (2)

This Word of God We may notice that in the present article our Confession simply speaks of "this Word of God," without further defining and describing what Word of God is meant. The Confession refers, of course, to the Bible, with its thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and its twenty-seven books of the New. For the time being, this article simply assumes this, in order in the next article to specify which are the canonical books. And, of course, it is also evident that the Confession is...