til regenerated, are invariably sinful; which bias to evil is properly denominated a depraved nature, or original sin, as in the standards of our church.

II. As to the second charge, relating to total depravity and the work of the Holy Spirit, Dr. Beecher holds and teaches that this depravity is so entire and in such a sense insuperable, that no man is or ever will be regenerated without the special influence of the Holy Spirit accompanying the word, as expressed in the standards of our church. Larger Catechism, Question 155, and Scripture proofs.

On the subject of ability, Dr. Beecher holds and teaches that fallen man has all the constitutional powers or faculties to constitute moral agency and perfect obligation to obey God, and propriety of rewards and punishments; that the will is not, by any absolute necessity of nature, determined to good or evil, according, to the Confession of Faith, ch. ix. sec. 1, with Scripture proofs.

At the same time Dr. Beecher holds and teaches that man by the fall is morally disabled, being so entirely and obstinately averse from that which is good, and dead in sin, so that he is not able to convert himself or prepare himself thereunto.

The extracts from Dr. Beecher's sermons brought to sustain the above charges, when taken in their proper connexion, and with the limitations furnished by the context, do not teach doctrines inconsistent with the Bible and standards of our church.

III. As to the charges of Perfectionism, slander and hypocrisy, they are altogether constructive and inferrential, and wholly unsustained by the evidence.

Presbytery then resolved that they do not decide the amount of censure due to Dr. Wilson, but refer the subject to the Synod for their final adjudication.

Dr. Wilson gave notice that he should APPEAL to Synod from this decision.

Messrs. Gaines, Skillinger, Kemper, Cumback, Aton, Andrews, Harvey, Burt, Brown, dissent and protest against the decision. Hayden, Monfort, Gazley, gave notice of their

Messrs. Stowe, Rankin, and Brainerd were appointed a committee to defend the above decision before the Synod.

The roll was then called, the minutes read, and Presbytery adjourned, after singing and

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