...Presbyterian church, a minister, or elder, at his ordination, is required to receive and adopt the Confession of Faith, " as containing THE SYSTEM of doctrine taught in the holy scriptures." Can the import of this declaration be misunderstood ? It is certainly explicit enough for any ordinary...

...the proper grounds of ecclesiastical discipline. Our ministers and elders are required to adopt the Confession of Faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. No doctrine, therefore, consistent with the integrity of that system is the proper ground of discipline....

...of the following resolutions, viz. 1. Resolved by the Assembly, That in receiving and adopting the Confession of Faith, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, are included, and do constitute...

...we do not require from the private members of the Church, viz., solemnly and publicly to adopt the Confession of Faith, "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures." When this is considered; and also that they are expected to be, to a certain extent, instructors and...

...very constitution, and exhibited in our form of Government and Book of Discipline. My adoption of the Confession of Faith, "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures," does- not' obligate me to prefer or adopt this man's or the other's, this party's or the other party's,...

...what we do not require from the private members of the church, viz. solemnly and publicly to adopt the Confession of Faith, "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures." When this is considered, and also that they are expected to be, to a certain extent, instructors and...

...by another, and a separation of seventeen years. The terms of re-union were, a subscription of the Confession of Faith, "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures," notwithstanding any such " scruples with respect to any article or articles of said Confession, as...

...synod by another, and a separation of seventeen years. The terms of reunion were, a subscription of the Confession of Faith, " as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures," notwithstanding any such " scruples with respect to any article or articles of said Confession, as...

...belief in the total depravity of all mankind, "I have assented to it, as the hook itself requires, 'as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures ;' we are not under the Scottish formula, which requires assent to the ' whole doctrine contained in the...

...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, ft has never prescribed any doctrinal test or form, to be applied and used in the admission of members...