Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Look even to the Synod of Ulster. While that church was unfaithful to her Lord, and had allowed her standards to fall into disuse; error, it is admitted, crept into and devastated her borders. But fearless men arose within her to “contend for the faith,” and uplift again her ancient testimony, and now, having shaken off the incubus that prostrated her energies, she is walking forth over the land with brightening vision and buoyant tread, having favour with her Lord, and going forth to his help against the embattled hosts of the mighty.
Her past redemption from error she achieved, her present steadfastness in the truth she maintains, and all without the aid of a liturgy. How? By the blessing of God on the means she used, not the “conservative resource” of preaching merely, but the resumption of her ancient formularies, and the exercise of a discipline which the Presbyterianism of her government enabled her to wield.
For the reference, see Alexander Porter Goudy on the redemption of the Synod of Ulster.
Her past redemption from error she achieved, her present steadfastness in the truth she maintains, and all without the aid of a liturgy. How? By the blessing of God on the means she used, not the “conservative resource” of preaching merely, but the resumption of her ancient formularies, and the exercise of a discipline which the Presbyterianism of her government enabled her to wield.
For the reference, see Alexander Porter Goudy on the redemption of the Synod of Ulster.