Ordering of Principia
The First Helvetic Confession, therefore, is something of an exception to this early pattern [of placing God before Scripture] and already represents a certain systematizing tendency. The other early confessions simply reflect the shape of the Apostles’ Creed, by moving from God and creation, to salvation, to the articles concerned with the church.
Richard A. Muller, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy; Volume 2: The Cognitive Foundation of Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 152-153.