...Duffield, " The Presbyterian church, while in the ordination of its ministry it pledges them to its confession of faith," as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy scriptures, " has never prescribed any doctrinal test or form to be applied and used in the admission of members...

...assent to it, or the ministry at large. If a man is willing honestly to say that he subscribes to the Confession of Faith, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures, according to the plain meaning of those terms, answerable to his God, no man has a right beyond that...

...light, and were convinced that the New School men, when they solemnly profess to " receive and adopt the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Scriptures," really mean what they say, and are expected by their presbyteries to mean much more than...

...conscience, and without incurring the charge of perjury or hypocrisy, profess to " receive and adopt the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures ?" Alas ! they had not learned, what many good and wise men have not learned even now after thirty-eight...

...regarded as essential to salvation ; from ministers and ruling elders, the reception and adoption of the Confession of Faith, "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures," and the approval of the Form of Government and Discipline ; from theological professors, in addition...

...conscience, and without incurring the charge of perjury or hypocrisy, profess to " receive and adopt the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures ?" Alas ! they had not learned, what many good and wise men have not learned even now after thirty-eight...

...does not accord with that entertained in the Presbyterian Church. We do not understand that accepting the Westminster Confession of Faith " as containing...the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures " is an acceptance of everything contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Even Dr. Fox would...

...But the office-bearers of the Church — the ministers, elders, deacons — are required to accept the Westminster Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament. Our supreme standard is the Bible. All our teaching, in...

...on a general recognition of the Bible as the only infallible rule of faith and practice, and on the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scrip tures. It is admittedly a union of compromise ; and as involving the compromise of great Scriptural...

...therefore was the answer distinctly given by Mr. Stone to the question, " Do you receive and adopt the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Bible?" No objection being offered by any one, he was then ordained. The account of his subsequent...