It is a bad indication when, in any
period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the Scriptures to a
secondary importance, illustrated in one era, when as Tulloch remarks:
'Scripture as a witness, disappeared behind the Augsburg Confession" ...No
decrees of councils; no ordinances of synods; no "standard" of
doctrines; no creed or confession, is to be urged as authority in forming the
opinions of men. They may be valuable for some purposes, but not for this; they
may be referred to as interesting parts of history, but not to form the faith
of Christians; they may be used in the church to express its belief, not to form it.
L. S. Chafer
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