Excerpt from The Making of the Westminster Confession, and Especially of Its Chapter on the Decree of God
See Shaw, I, 127, note, and cf. The Ordinance itself as printed in most Scotch editions of the Confession of Faith and in Dr. Mitchell's Baird Lectures, p. Xiii sq.
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