6, must be construed in connection with the two immediately preceding and numerically connected with it.

Resolutions first and second declare the "doctrinal Platform" to consist of the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the American Recension of the Augsburg Confession, together with the General Synod's Formula of Government and Discipline.

And the third resolution adds, no one shall be received into this Synod who will not subscribe "_this_ Platform," namely, the one just defined.

This American Recension or Revision of the Augsburg Confession, contains, _unaltered_, the doctrinal articles of that Confession, except, that a few sentences are omitted, and _nothing added in their stead_.

Now, if it be admitted that when an enumeration of the parts of a whole is professedly and explicitly made, any thing not included in that enumeration is excluded, then certainly, as the first two resolutions enumerated specifically the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the American Recension of the Augsburg Confession, as the parts constituting the Platform to which assent was required, it follows that the list of Symbolic Errors rejected, which is not named at all, and which formed a separate part of the pamphlet, is excluded.