The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Fathers ; that in reference to what Divines have called ft* Thefive points, discussed and decided in the Synod of Dort, the Confes-sion is opposed to Arminianism, and coincides with the Calvinism ofthat body. These evangelical doctrines, says Dr. Krebs, as theyare taught in the word of God, were revived and held with singularunanimity by all the churches which arose out of the Reformation, asappears very evidently from a comparis


The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . Fathers ; that in reference to what Divines have called ft* Thefive points, discussed and decided in the Synod of Dort, the Confes-sion is opposed to Arminianism, and coincides with the Calvinism ofthat body. These evangelical doctrines, says Dr. Krebs, as theyare taught in the word of God, were revived and held with singularunanimity by all the churches which arose out of the Reformation, asappears very evidently from a comparison of the various creeds andconfessions which were framed and published by them. Those whoon the continent of Europe adhered to Martin Luther, in his rites andceremonial observances, and the Anglican prelatists, as well as the Re-formed churches of France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Scot-land, equally adopted the system since called Calvinism. Their maindifferences had relation to the administration of ecclesiastical affairs^the equality of the Christian ministry, and other subordinate topics. The Presbyterian Church has no liturgy or prescribed form of. First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va.


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