The eighth chapter deals with some of the famous Declaratory Statements made anent the Westminster Confession. Interestingly, the first was issued within months of the completion of the 1646 Confession itself.
The ninth chapter demonstrates that not our Declaratory Statement but only the Confession is the Subordinate Standard of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Yet the Confession is to be read in the light of the former.
The tenth chapter discusses the various provisions of the Australian Presbyterian Declaratory Statement. Throughout, it is seen that it consistently upholds the totality of the Confession. Even the Presbyterian Church’s G.A.A. (alias the General Assembly of Australia) has no stated power to alter the Confession-upholding 1901 Declaratory Statement. For the latter is entrenched in the very constitution of the Federated Church itself.
