THE WORD OF GOD AS A MEANS OF GRACE The Westminster Assembly addressed the subject of Holy Scripture under two major rubrics in its confessional material: (1) in chapter one of the Westminster Confession of Faith where the Scriptures are treated theologically as the sole and fundamental basis and norm (the principium unicum and principium cognoscendi externum) for all Christian doctrine,3 and (2) in Questions 155–160 of the Larger Catechism (see also the parallel material in Shorter Catechism,