Confessions
Confessions, distinct from creeds, are fuller explanations of the creeds themselves, whether of the articles of faith or also of the doctrine of morals, and so of the whole of religion written for the necessity of one or more churches
Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology, ed. James T. Dennison Jr., trans. George Musgrave Giger, vol. 3 (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 1992-1997), 283.