4 APRIL 1868, Page 19

The Westminster Confession of Faith Examined on the Basis of

the ,other Protestant Confessions. By Joseph Taylor Goodsir. (Williams and Norgate.)—This is an impugnment of the Westminster Confession of Faith on the ground of its teaching a doctrine of justification which is contrary to the Scripture and to Catholic theology. Mr. Goodsir was formerly a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, but resigned his charge because he could no longer accept that doctrine. He now states his objections to it at great length, and not always in the most intelligible style. It is not, however, his fault that he has been driven to take the opinion of the public on a point which he endeavoured to bring before the Courts of the Church and before some of her ministers for decision.