The Belgic Confession

The Belgic Confession is a primary Reformed confessional text, composed by Guido de Bres in 1561 and received, alongside the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort, as one of the Three Forms of Unity in the Reformed tradition. As a primary confessional text it is authoritative for what this specific Reformed confession itself states, checkable directly against the text, not for how every Reformed denomination that has since adopted or revised it currently applies a given article, since Reformed bodies vary in how strictly they hold to the original text versus later revisions. Use it to establish what the Belgic Confession itself states on a named point of doctrine; a claim about a specific modern Reformed denomination's current confessional position needs that denomination's own current statement alongside it.