Scripture which was brought into dispute—its authority, integrity, purity, perspicuity, or perfection—was brought into dispute only that Scripture might be declined as the Supreme Judge in controversies of religion. The Confession therefore most fitly closes its statement with a perfectly explicit affirmation that religious controversies are to be decided, not on the ground of “decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits,” under whatever names they may