A New Formula of Subscription

Apostasy in the Church always must contend sooner or later with the Confessions. Apostasy is possible, of course, only when the Confessions are forgotten and unknown documents, filed away in church archives; and corrupters of the truth are tolerated in the Church only when the Confessions have ceased to be the living confession of the members of the Church. But sooner or later the problem of these Confessions must be faced. Apostasy in the Church always must contend sooner or later with the...