Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1997 - Rparchives.org

220 MINUTES OF THE 1997 SYNOD OF THE
to furnish his heart and tongue with further materials of prayer and
exhortation, as shall be needful upon all occasions."
They did not conceive of their Directory as a mere rule-book prescribing a fixed
order and form of words for services of public worship, but rather as collocation of
practical spiritual counsels building upon and applying the fundamental doarine as
formulated in The Confession of Faith, chapters 20-22, and 25-29, and
accordingly commended to the church as fully consistent with the regulative
principle of Scripture. It is in this spirit that the Reformed Presbyterian Church
sends out this Directory. At the threshold of the twenty-first century, we look
back with thankfulness to the legacy of the Apostles and the Reformers, and build
upon the biblical heritage of our fathers in the faith. We also look forward with
anticipation to the blessing of God in all the days he gives to us and our
descendants in extending His Kingdom until its consummation at the coming of the
Lord Jesus Christ at the end of the age.