The Practice of Confessional Subscription Quotes

“of its standards with respect to the Scriptures and the superiority of its standards with respect to the qualifications of its ministers and officers.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“confession of faith is to the church what a constitution is to a society”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The discussion of confessional subscription should bear in mind the virtue of creeds in their impression of the truth on the mind and heart of the church. Any form of subscription that does not successfully foster this subjective impression”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The creeds and confessions are perhaps the church’s greatest tribute to the spiritual apprehension of and appreciation for the truth as it is set forth in God’s Word.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“It is to despise divine providence to suppose that one can or should ignore or minimize the finality that attaches to the definitive formulations of these epochs of reflection on the teachings of the Bible.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The godly during the long ages before the Reformation had no benefit from the discoveries of Martin Luther and John Calvin”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Benjamin Warfield”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Now”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“every believer’s pilgrimage and that of every generation of believers is shaped”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In worship”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Creeds serve a variety of purposes in the life of the church. They are a testimony of the church’s belief to the world; they offer a summation of Christian doctrine for the instruction of the faithful; and they form a bulwark against the incursion of error by providing a standard of orthodoxy and a test for office-bearers.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Even under the best case scenario”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Benjamin Franklin puts into the mouth of his character”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“I”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Hamilton identifies the pathology of confessional relaxation in a sequence moving first from a general ambiguity over the “sense” of the confession”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Growing theological laxity is seen when during the Union discussions”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“He admits that in 1690 and in 1696 the General Assembly of Scotland both allowed subscription to the Confession of Faith as a test of ministerial communion and further forbade anyone to “speak”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In 1755”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Presbyterianism in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Drysdale offers several explanations for the decline of Presbyterianism in England”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Sadly”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Non-subscribing Presbyterian ministers showed a tendency toward the reception of new ideas”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“This led to a division among the London Presbyterians into Non-Subscribers”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Following the first blush of subscription in Northampton by the British Presbyterians”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In 1583”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“it appears that the earliest practice of subscription in England was to the Thirty-Nine Articles.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“It is well-known that Scottish Christians subscribed national covenants in 1581”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Church is healthiest which knows what it believes”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Far from being forbidden”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription