Click on this link to see the pdf version of The Standard Bearer. While I do not agree with everything that Rev. Clayton Spronk says in this article, his points about the compromises made by the Manhattan Declaration should be taken seriously by every Reformed believer. You can read the article by clicking on All Around Us and then going to page 175 in the pdf file. Here is an excerpt from the remarks by Rev. Spronk:
Not only does a signature affixed to this document overlook Rome’s doctrine, it pats Rome on the back! Do not the Reformed Christians who sign this document remember what else Rome did in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Do they not remember that Rome excommunicated and anathematized people other than those involved in the slave trade, namely, those who were involved in teaching justification by faith alone and all the other great biblical truths of the Reformation? Do they not remember that Rome oppressed faithful, Reformed Christians in a manner that rivals and perhaps surpasses the oppression that slaves experienced under their slave-masters? Rome wreaked havoc on the church and tried to destroy the gospel of Jesus Christ! No, I will not sign the Manhattan Declaration and applaud Rome for seeking the “ common good.”
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