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An Inquiry into the Principles of Church Fellowship. -by Rev. John T. Pressly, D.D. Subscribe to the pamphlet program for $10 a month here: http://covenanter.org/pamphlets This pamphlet is also available for purchase as an individual pamphlet. In the age of NAPARC (North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council), it might seem as though the Reformed churches were closer to achieving some kind of working unity amongst various bodies with sometimes conflicting confessional standards. An Inquiry into the Principles of Church Fellowship represents a concise and tightly reasoned primer dealing with several topics of related to present ecclesiastical concerns. The spirit of the age is one seeking unity, if not divorced from the truth, certainly not wholly in the truth. Dr. Pressly provides an antidote to this modern poison. He explains principles upon which ecclesiastical communion should be practiced. If there is no impediment to occasional communion with or in some other body, then there should be no impediment to complete union so that there is proper ecclesiastical oversight of that fellowship. Those who are willing to inter-commune and inter-fellowship without a prior unity of faith show themselves to be willing to sacrifice God's truth on the altar of their own convenience and their misguided sense of charity. As Dr. Pressly points out, it is not charitable to admit people into ecclesiastical fellowship who remain ignorant or hostile to any of the truths for which the church has been called to contend. After all, charity, the apostle Paul tells us, Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. It is humanism and depravity that seeks to separate what God has joined together. This edition of Dr. Pressly's small book also contains his earlier published lecture on the principles and practice of close communion. It is of particular interest because Dr. Pressly gives a sketch of the rise of open communion amongst dissenting Presbyterians.