At a time when some Reformed churches were seeking to "modernize" the Westminster Confession, Shedd ardently opposed this movement. In so doing, he wrote an apology for the Confession, addressing... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This little book by WGT Shedd is a mini-masterpiece. In it, Shedd reprints a number of articles written for various reformed publications during one,of the many,disputes between strict-subscriptionists to the Westminster Confession(like Shedd)and those who would water it down. History has proven Shedd right as the "loose-subscriptionist" party eventually discarded the Confession entirely and carried the manistream Presbyterian church(save for the conservatives who left and founded other denominations)into apostasy. Even though this was written for an earlier controversy, this same issue is alive today in many denominations (like the Presbyterian Church in America-PCA) where confessionalists clash with those who value church attendance statistics over the truth.
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