To Be or Not to Be Reformed: Upholding the Formula of Subscription (5)

Previous article in this series: February 15, 2019, p. 220. Considering that the Formula of Subscription (FOS) is an authoritative document binding for every Reformed officebearer, it is crucially important that each understand to what the FOS binds him. In that connection we face a question that often arises, namely: Is the Reformed church order binding on the officebearer who signs the FOS? Historically, the confessions and the church order are closely related. As we noted earlier, in the...