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title: 'Girardeau on Love and the Divine Right of Presbyterianism'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-08-28
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-girardeau-on-love-and-the-divine-right-of-presbyterianism
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# Girardeau on Love and the Divine Right of Presbyterianism

“A catholic love for all his true people, and unshaken confidence in the divine right of the Presbyterian system: these are things which should never, by us, be disjoined.” — [**John L. Girardeau**](/authors/john-lafayette-girardeau), “Historical Address” in *Historical Addresses and Commemorative Ode, Delivered in the Synod of South Carolina in Purity Church, Chester, October 24, 1885* — as quoted by [William C. Robinson](/authors/william-childs-robinson), *Columbia Theological Seminary and the Southern Presbyterian Church* (1931), p. 68