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"Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures" - R.J. Rushdoony, A Biblical Philosophy of History, p. 135.

"That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past. - Ecclesiastes 3:15.

"An approbation of the faithful contendings of the martyrs of Jesus, especially in Scotland, against Paganism, Popery, Prelacy, Malignancy and Sectarianism; immoral civil governments; Erastian tolerations and persecutions which flow from them; and of the Judicial Testimony emitted by the Reformed Presbytery in North Britain, 1761 with supplements from the Reformed Presbyterian Church; as containing a noble example to be followed, in contending for all divine truth, and in testifying against all corruptions embodied in the constitutions of either churches or states." - Reformed Presbytery, The Six Points of the "Terms of Ministerial and Christian Communion in the Reformed Presbyterian Church" as listed at the end of The Act, Declaration, and Testimony for the Whole of Our Covenanted Reformation by the Reformed Presbytery, 1761, 1876, (1995, SWRB reprint).
"Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing." - Philippians 3:16.

"To this it is answered, by no means, every way the contrary, in accordance with the alone infallible rule; for 'Christ's scholars never learn above their Bible.' This presbytery believes firmly, that the testimony of Christ's witnesses is necessarily progressive, and that it will assuredly advance in the face of all opposition till it be 'finished.' Rev. 11:7. There is no such anomalous document recognized among the faithful witnesses as a 'Standing Testimony.' All such measures of compromise they must repudiate. The church of God is one, Song 6:9; Eph. 4:4-6; the only true historical society on earth; Ps. 89:29; Ps. 105:10; Rom. 4:13; the only indestructible and immortal corporation. Is. 54:17; Matt. 16:18. Her earnest contendings against the devil, the world, and the flesh, are to be put on record, but not to be confounded with confession of her faith, though both be inseparable. Thus it is that when the spouse is in perplexity, as to present duty, her glorious Husband directs, to 'go her way forth by the footsteps of the flock;' Song 1:8; to 'take for an example of suffering affliction and of patience, the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.' Jas. 5:10. Christ himself hath left us an example that we should 'follow his steps,' as well as receive his doctrines. In total disregard of such plain and reiterated declarations of the Holy Spirit, all the so-called judicial testimonies, which have been emitted since the overthrow of the Second Reformation, have excluded history and argument, the very essence of a testimony, save that faithful and Scriptural one adopted in 1761, re-published in 1850, with a progressive supplement. Thus different parties claiming to be the followers of Christ's witnesses, have palmed upon a credulous world a confession, instead of a testimony. The Reformed Presbytery would earnestly desire to disabuse the Christian mind of this gross deception and great imposition, by which many sincere and devout disciples are befogged and distracted. 1. The Bible, both Old and New Testament, is largely historical, the books of Genesis and Matthew beginning with narrative, the wonderful works of God. It is thus adapted to the rational nature of man, and equally to the spiritual nature of the new man. 2. The church cannot ascertain the fulfillment of prophecy, the cumulating external evidence of her divine original: nor can Christ's witnesses otherwise than by history identify her confederated enemies — the man of sin and son of perdition, his paramour, the well favored harlot, and her harlot daughters, the offspring of her fornication with the kings of the earth. 3. The present cannot in faith confess the sins, or express thanks to God for the mercies, of a former generation, except on the credibility of human history. 4. Nor otherwise can a Christian know the time or place of his birth, or the persons whom God commands him to honor as his father and mother, than by uninspired testimony; and the same is true of his covenant obligation, if baptized in infancy. Against all who ignorantly or recklessly reject or oppose history as a bond of fellowship, in the family, in the state, but especially in the church, we thus enter our solemn and uncompromising protest. And finally, we testify against all who, under pretext of superior charity or liberality, fiercely clamor for union of churches by a sacrifice of divine truth, and in violation of order; or, who advocate intercommunion among bodies organically separate; or who furnish testimonials of Christian character to officers or members, who avow their intention to break covenant; thus inculcating hypocrisy, by precept and example, and reducing the awful sin of perjury to system. By such sinful and debasing practices; by the haughty bearing of idle shepherds of mercenary spirit — 'greedy dogs which can never have enough — the poor sheep of Christ, whose souls starve under a fruitless ministry, are tempted to 'heap to themselves teachers' — unauthorized revivalists — who 'understand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm;' and are thus prepared to become the vassals of antichrist; to be led blindfold down to the chambers of eternal perdition. And, notwithstanding the judgments of God inflicted on this nation by the recent internecine war, it still refuses to submit to the authority of the Lord and his Anointed. It authoritatively tolerates all religions, necromancy and polygamy; and profanes the Lord's day by post office and railway traffic, for profit or pleasure. 'Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shall inherit all nations.' - Excerpted from: The Act, Declaration and Testimony for the Whole of Our Covenanted Reformation... by the Reformed Presbytery, pp. 177- 178, 1761, reprinted by SWRB 1995 from the 1876 edition.

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