Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I despise the idea of receiving any doctrine merely because our fathers believed it; but I would require very strong evidence indeed to convince me, that the whole number of those judicious, and learned, and holy men, who lived during the space of a hundred and fifty years from the time of the Reformation, had all agreed in believing, teaching, publishing, and embodying in the confessions of their respective Churches, a doctrine [the establishment principle] utterly and obviously opposite to the Word of God, and subversive of the whole character, and prosperity of the Church. I would require stronger evidence by far than I will ever obtain, to convince me that there is any ecclesiastical body in our country — how much soever it may arrogate to itself the merit of new discoveries in religious truth — whose judgment will bear even for a moment to be compared with that of the venerable Assembly of Westminster. ...
For more, see William MacKray on honouring the Westminster Assembly.
For more, see William MacKray on honouring the Westminster Assembly.
