Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I have a quick question about the precise usage of the word "papist" in the below section of the Westminster Confession:
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent. Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord. And therefore such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies. Westminster Confession 24:3
Who, exactly, counts as a "papist" in this context? Does it refer to any member of the Church of Rome, or, does it specifically refer to those who obstinately cling to Romish dogma?
It is lawful for all sorts of people to marry, who are able with judgment to give their consent. Yet it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord. And therefore such as profess the true reformed religion should not marry with infidels, papists, or other idolaters: neither should such as are godly be unequally yoked, by marrying with such as are notoriously wicked in their life, or maintain damnable heresies. Westminster Confession 24:3
Who, exactly, counts as a "papist" in this context? Does it refer to any member of the Church of Rome, or, does it specifically refer to those who obstinately cling to Romish dogma?