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This concludes some cursory comments on the subject of terms of communion and visible unity. It is a matter of emphasis elsewhere in the New...

Acts 15:22-23 "Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with ...

"And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things t...

Mark Hausam's second post.  THE ESTABLISHMENT PRINCIPLE AND THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH At this point we can begin to see how the Estab...

Mark Hausam lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, where he is a n instructor in Philosophy at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT, and an instr...

This post also appears on www.ourconfession.org - a n online meeting place for folk who profess to be reformed in doctrine, worship and pr...

This paper responds to a brief document entitled " Reformed Scottish Presbyterianism: Reunion in the 21st Century? " prepared an...

A recent blog post counts up 11 Presbyterian denominations in Scotland. Another blog analyses shrewdly the reasons for this. Should we ...

David Dickson commenting on Psalm 47:9 shows that the visible Church can, should and will be one in its government throughout the world. ...

John Willison writes the following in his A Fair and Impartial Testimony . 1. The servants of God, and especially ministers of the gospel...

From: Calvin's Ecclesiastical Advice Calvin's "Essay on the Lord's Supper" from, The Form of Prayers, 1542 and 1545. T...

Elders must interview intending communicants if they are to discharge their responsibilities faithfully. The individual has their responsibi...

This is a matter that is to be settled ultimately by Scripture. We bring worldly assumptions into this area at great peril to the church of ...

George Gillespie shows that this distinction is not biblical. "the distinction of the clergy and laity is popish and antichristian; and...

Much has been written on the subject of the discipline of the Scottish Reformation. There is for instance, Hay Fleming's Discpline of th...

Archibald Alexander Hodge gave a very significant lecture upon his installation as Associate Professor of Dogmatic and Polemic Theology at ...

"The Presbyterial Government; wherein is to be found such ample provision, and that according to the Word of God, for comely order agai...

Obadiah Sedgewick (one of the Westminster divines) shows how there is an internal (absolute) and external (conditional) side to the Covenant...

Scott Clark has a useful reflection upon the necessity of confessionalism in the contemporary confusion. Samuel Miller's defence of con...