Here's a quote from H.E. Jacobs, A Summary of the Christian Faith.
Chapter XXXI, The Church's Confessions. Question 14 (pp.454-455) Are not the controversies settled in our Confessions merely such as belonged to the Church in Germany over three hundred years, and, therefore, of no very great importance to us in America? The errors controverted reappear wherever the Gospel is preached. The questions of the XVI Century are just as living and important today, as they were then. A Church which assumes to be independent of the labors and testimony of its fathers, in so far as they are true, will ultimately be called upon to pass through the same experience, and to return to their testimony which it had deemed unnecessary.
