The PCA Historical Center's document page reproduces and annotates the Adopting Act of 1729, documenting its adoption by the Synod of Philadelphia, its requirement that ministers declare agreement with the essential and necessary articles of the Westminster Confession and Catechisms, and the exceptions the synod carved out of the Confession's chapters on Christian liberty and the civil magistrate.
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The Presbyterian Church in America's own historical archive and document repository, tier 2, used here for the Adopting Act's text and its account of the subscription compromise, corroborated by Wikipedia's more precisely dated account below. NotesUsed for the Adopting Act's text, its subscription requirement, and the exceptions carved out of the Confession's chapters on Christian liberty and the civil magistrate.
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PublisherPCA Historical Center (Presbyterian Church in America)
URLhttps://www.pcahistory.org/documents/subscription/adoptingact.html
Source Typeinstitutional record
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