The Ultimate Ground Of Faith And Knowledge

It Is A Fact That Unless Children Are Brought Up In The Nurture And Admonition Of The Lord, They, And The Society Which They Constitute Or Control, Will Go To Destruction. Consequently, When A State Resolves That Religious Instruction Shall Be Banished From The Schools And Other Literary Institutions, It Virtually Resolves On Self-destruction.

No More Soul-destroying Doctrine Could Well Be Devised Than The Doctrine That Sinners Can Regenerate Themselves, And Repent And Believe Just When They Please.

In Every System Of Theology, Therefore, There Is A Chapter De Libero Arbitrio. This Is A Question Which Every Theologian Finds In His Path, And Which He Must Dispose Of; And On The Manner In Which It Is Determined Depends His Theology, And Of Course His Religion, So Far As His Theology Is To Him A Truth And Reality

There Is No Form Of Conviction More Intimate And Irresistible Than That Which Arises From The Inward Teaching Of The Spirit.

There Can, Therefore, Be No Doubt That Presbyterians Do Carry Out The Principle That Church Power Vests In The Church Itself, And That The People Have A Right To A Substantive Part In Its Discipline And Government.