Address to the Ministers, Elders, and Members, of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address to the Ministers, Elders, and Members, of the Presbyterian Church, in the United StatesWe observe Qd - That to the successful maintainance of the truth of God-to union of effort in its maintainance, creeds, confessions of faith, are indispensable. It is readily conceded that the Bible is the only infallible rule of faith and practice - the ultimate stand ard by which every doctrine and every spirit must be tried. But_it is well known that men interpret the Bible very differently, and that all the errorists that have ever disturbed the Church have pro fessed to receive it as their text-book. The Arian, the Socinian, thepelagian, and the Arminian, if you believe them, all find their several systems in the Bible - so that a simple profession of faith in the Bible it appears is a very vague matter, and something more definite and explicit is evidently necessary to ascertain the religious sentiments of men. In order to this, under the circumstances of the case, there must be' a resort to the use of formularies containingthe leading and distinguishing doctrines of the Bible, expressed in language easily understood. In no other way amid the multiplicity of religious sects that exist, is it possible to know what are men's views of divine truth, and in no other way can that harmony in counsel and union in action which are necessary to the defence and propagation of that truth be secured. Accordingly the Church has never been without her confession of faith, her avowed creed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.