forth in the great creeds of the church. The Westminster Confession of Faith, for example, after affirming that natural revelation is not sufficient to produce that knowledge necessary for salvation, declares that ‘it pleased the Lord, at sundry times, and in divers manners, to reveal himself, and to declare that [revelation] his will unto his church’; then, the same Confession affirms, ‘for the better preserving and propagating of the truth,’ it pleased God ‘to commit the same [revelation] wholly