Also “A Promise” in both scripture and confessions?

During the past year the truth of God relative to His promise, the promise of the gospel, has been brought forcibly to our attention once more. As the readers all know, no doubt, this was occasioned by our contact with the Liberated Churches and the subsequent composition of a "Declaration of Principles" by our Synod of 1950. As is to be understood, the attention was in large degree focused on the question as to the proper conception of the promise of the gospel, both from a Scriptural and from...