Excerpt from The Proposed Revision of the Westminster Standards The distinction between doctrines and persons, projects and their advocates, is a valid one. One may have little or no confidence in a doctrine or a project, and yet have confidence in an advocate of it, because a person may be different in his spirit and intention from the nature and tendency of his doctrine, while his doctrine is a fixed quantity. Coleridge, in a conversation with a Unitarian friend said I make the greatest difference between ems and isms. I should deal insincerely with you, if I said that I thought Unitarianism is Christianity; but God forbid that I should doubt that you and many other Unitarians are in a practical sense very good Christians. (table Talk, April 4, This distinction is impor tant in the present controversy. When the opponent of revision asserts that revision is anti-calvinistic in its logic and tendency, he does not assert that all of its advocates are anti-calvinists. 0 The writer of these papers believes that the natural and inevitable effect of the proposed changes in the Confession, will be more or less to weaken and break down the Calvinistic system contained in it, and endeavors to prove it; but he does not believe or say that this is the desire or intention of many who urge them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.