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" Seminary, solemnly and sincerely receive and adopt the Westminster Confession of Faith, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures. "
The Authority of Holy Scripture: An Inaugural Address - Page 10
by Charles Augustus Briggs - 1891 - 111 pages
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1835 - 700 pages
...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...
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Biblical Repertory

1871 - 582 pages
...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....
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Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the ..., Volume 7

1830 - 640 pages
...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...
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An Essay on the Warrant, Nature, and Duties of the Office of the Ruling ...

Samuel Miller - 1831 - 338 pages
...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...
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History of the Proceedings of the Carlisle Presbytery in Relation to a Work ...

1832 - 208 pages
...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,...
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The Warrant, Nature, and Duties, of the Office of the Ruling Elder, in the ...

Samuel Miller - 1835 - 334 pages
...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...
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Report of the Presbyterian Church Case: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at ...

Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - 1839 - 606 pages
...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...
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The Case of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United ...

James Todd, Ashbel Green - 1839 - 636 pages
...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...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 21

1864 - 940 pages
...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...
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A Debate Between Rev A. Campbell and Rev. N. L. Rice: On the Action, Subject ...

Alexander Campbell - 1844 - 928 pages
...familiar with Presbyterianism as he would have us believe, he would have known, that in adopting the confession of faith as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Scriptures, we do not say, that every reference to Scripture is precisely appropriate. We adopt its...
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