Report of the Committee of the Whole of the Presbytery of Philadelphia of the OPC
Hewitson, Page 61
“When the Presbytery came out of meeting as a Committee of the Whole and sat as a court, a motion to concur with the determinations that it had previously made failed by one vote. The Presbytery voted on the thesis as a unit, rather than one at a time, as the Committee of the Whole had done, at which point the Moderator cast the tying vote.
See footnote 201: “The discrepancy between these actions can be explained by the fact that the presbytery now was voting on the thirty-four thesis as a court rather than as a Committee of the Whole. Persons who objected to only one thesis — or, as in the case of the moderator, to a portion of one thesis — were obligated to vote negatively. A substitute motion that was offered to find the entire set of theses (as a whole) unsatisfactory failed by a clear majority. The decision of the Committee as a Whole reflects most accurately where the presbytery stood. (Page 62)
No charges were filed in the Presbytery of Philadelphia of the OPC against Shepherd.