David W. Hall > Quotes

“Presbyterianism in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“a subordinate standard”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“What bothers us most about our legal system? It is that we know the law isn’t being fairly enforced, that money or position can assure immunity from just punishment, whether the charge is murder or sexual harassment. We are in danger of becoming a government of men not of laws, and our founding fathers, if they were alive today, would tell us, “That way lies tyranny.” Not only must we have law; it must be law that calls us to a higher standard than that by which many are willing to live. Some folks say, “You can’t legislate morality.” If they mean we can’t make folks behave morally by requiring it in the law, they’re right. But if they mean we should therefore not try and set up high standards in law, they’re wrong. Good laws will set high moral standards, whether the moral issue be murder, stealing, lying to a jury, or sexual misconduct. All those things and many more fall within the purview of moral law. These days we especially need laws that affirm the value of human life. The violence in our culture results from our habit of undervaluing life, a habit which can only be changed when our laws recognize the”
― David W. Hall, Election Day Sermons

“All believers hold to certain doctrinal sets; the only question is which sets are more or less in keeping with the Scriptures.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Sadly”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In 1755”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Benjamin Franklin puts into the mouth of his character”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“He admits that in 1690 and in 1696 the General Assembly of Scotland both allowed subscription to the Confession of Faith as a test of ministerial communion and further forbade anyone to “speak”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Church is healthiest which knows what it believes”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Reformed faith has sought to be confessional because they knew that the changing opinions of even the best modern thinkers or the most established traditional hierarchies are inadequate guides to the peace and purity of the church of Christ.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“it appears that the earliest practice of subscription in England was to the Thirty-Nine Articles.”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“This led to a division among the London Presbyterians into Non-Subscribers”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Now”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Christians who are not confessional”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Even under the best case scenario”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Pharisees”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Calvin was not of stone, and if there are Reformed people who are, they are poor Calvinists.”
― David W. Hall, Tributes to John Calvin: A Celebration of His Quincentenary

“It is well-known that Scottish Christians subscribed national covenants in 1581”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Far from being forbidden”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Drysdale offers several explanations for the decline of Presbyterianism in England”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Hamilton identifies the pathology of confessional relaxation in a sequence moving first from a general ambiguity over the “sense” of the confession”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Benjamin Warfield”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“every believer’s pilgrimage and that of every generation of believers is shaped”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“Following the first blush of subscription in Northampton by the British Presbyterians”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In short”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“our forefathers saw that confessions”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“In 1583”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“I”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“The Non-subscribing Presbyterian ministers showed a tendency toward the reception of new ideas”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription

“That is why the best formulas of subscription have not called for adherence to the gospel only”
― David W. Hall, The Practice of Confessional Subscription