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	Westminster Assembly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Westminster Assembly of Divines 1643 was appointed by the Long Parliament to restructure the Church of England.
		The Assembly consisted of 30 laymen (10 lords and 20 commoners) and 121 divines or clergymen.
		The Assembly's first meeting was in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey on July 1, 1643.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westminster_Assembly (798 words)

	Westminster, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westminster is a city located in Orange County, California.
		Its name is taken from the Westminster Assembly of 1643, which laid out the basic tenets of the Presbyterian faith.
		Westminster was incorporated in 1957, at which time it had 10,755 residents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westminster,_California (475 words)

	HISTORY OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES - Chapter 2
		The ordinance of the Parliament calling the Assembly of Divines to meet at Westminster, on the 1st day of July 1643, was issued, as has been stated, on the 12th of June, in the same year.
		That three of the members of the Assembly be appointed weekly as chaplains, one to the House of Lords, another to the House of Commons, and a third to the Committee of both kingdoms.
		As the General Assembly was to meet on the 2d of 7 August, and the Convention of Estates at the same time, the matter was deferred till then, that it might be fully and authoritatively arranged.
	www.reformed.org /books/hetherington/west_assembly/chapter_2.html (8938 words)

	PT066
		The Assembly gave much of its effort to this matter (as is evident from the list of its documents), and throughout its debates and decisions, the majority were resolutely presbyterian in the conclusions they drew from Scripture.
		The grand irony is that the Westminster Assembly was a body devoted to a religious and ecclesiastical project, but a body which had absolutely no ecclesiastical authority, having been called and strictly subjected to the domination of the civil authority, Parliament.
		Nevertheless, the work of the Westminster Assembly - especially its masterful Confession and Catechisms - was adopted by the Church of Scotland and thereby has come to have general authority and use as "subordinate standards" (subject to the primary authority of Scripture itself) throughout the presbyterian churches in the world.
	www.cmfnow.com /articles/pt066.htm (3416 words)

	A Comparison of the Westminster and the Reformed Confessions
		It was the strength of the Assembly and the Confessions which they drew up because it directly developed the fundamental truths of the Calvin Reformation in an indigenous way, fit for the Church of Christ as she was called to give testimony to her faith in the context of The British Isles.
		The purpose for calling the Assembly reads in part: "for settling of the government and liturgy of the Church of England." [6] While it was true that a national religion was also established in the Lowlands and other parts of the continent, the Puritan purpose, as defined by the National League and Covenant was different.
		The Larger Catechism, fundamentally an abridgement of the Westminster Confession itself, was intended to be used in the preaching; while the Shorter Catechism, in turn an abridgment of the Larger, was intended for the instruction of children.
	www.prca.org /articles/article_8.html (5175 words)

	The Westminster Standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Westminster Assembly was wholly British in its composition.
		The Westminster Confession and Catechisms, therefore, are the mature fruit of the whole movement of creed formation throughout fifteen centuries of Christian history.
		The divines sitting at Westminster regarded it as their business to elicit from the Scripture the system of truth set forth therein, and this is just saying that they regarded it as their task to exhibit in orderly, logical and systematic fashion the system of truth they found God had deposited in the holy Scripture.
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/standard.html (718 words)

	Westminster Confession - Introduction
		The Westminster Confession of Faith is one document of several commissioned by the English parliament during the English Civil War (1642-1649), in which armies raised by the parliament, in league with Scotland, battled forces loyal to the tyrannical King Charles I and his bishops.
		The Confession was commissioned from an assembly of 121 Puritan clergymen meeting in Westminster Abbey, called the Westminster Assembly, which was convened in 1643 for the purpose of drafting official documents for the reformation of the Church of England.
		The Westminster Confession was adopted entire by the General Assembly of the Scottish Church in 1647 and ratified by the Scottish parliament in 1649.
	www.bible-researcher.com /wescon01.html (1233 words)

	The Calling of the Westminster Assembly
		In 1642 a declaration of the Parliament of England was sent to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
		The answer of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland deplored the tardiness with which the reformation of religion progressed, and contended that religion is not only the means of the service of God and the saving of souls but also "the base and foundation of kingdomes and estates".
		The Westminster divines did not, of course, regard the authority of Parliament or of any civil magistrate as essential to the calling of an assembly such as the Westminster Assembly was.
	www.rtrc.net /documents/wcf/calling.htm (2059 words)

	The Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the records of the Westminster Assembly we find a great deal of debate concerning catechism long before the date upon which the Assembly actually turned to the composition of the two Catechisms with which we are familiar.
		The Catechisms of the Westminster Assembly were, of course, intended to serve a different purpose from that of the Confession, and any comparison of the Catechisms with the Confession should bear this in mind.
		Examples like these show how necessary it is, in determining the position of the Westminster Assembly, to consult the Catechisms as well as the Confession, and in the matter of the subordinate standards in Presbyterian churches a great deal is to be gained by the inclusion of the Catechisms as well as the Confession.
	www.graceonlinelibrary.org /etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=670 (1273 words)

	PCA: COF PREFACE
		The First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, meeting at the Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, December 4-7, 1973, adopted the Confession of Faith, the Larger Catechism and the Shorter Catechism as the doctrinal standards of the Church.
		The Presbyterian Church in America received the same Confession and Catechisms as those that were adopted by the first American Presbyterian Assembly of 1789, with two minor exceptions, namely, the deletion of strictures against marrying one's wife's kindred (XXIV,4), and the reference to the Pope as the antichrist (XXV,6).
		The Scripture proof texts are essentially those of the Westminster Assembly, which have been approved by the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America, but which are not a part of the Constitution itself.
	www.pcanet.org /general/cof_preface.htm (360 words)

	Publisher's Introduction
		The Assembly was assigned the initial task of revising the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.
		The Assembly responded to the Parliament that "they are willing and ready to obey that Order." Yet, they added a brief explanation of why they had not already furnished proof texts: (1.) The Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England lacked proofs (the revision of those articles had been the Assembly's initial assignment).
		The determinations of the Scottish General Assembly, since they are "consonant with the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God, appointed thereunto in his word."[10]
	www.swrb.com /newslett/actualNLs/index02.htm (1245 words)

	A Westminster Bibliography Part 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When the Westminster Assembly reported its conclusions concerning church government to the Parliament in November 1644, the question of the divine right of church government was raised by Parliament.
		Parliament claimed on April 21, 1646 in response to the Assembly's petition that the Parliament "hath jurisdiction in all causes, spiritual and temporal;" that its directions were binding on "all persons of this kingdom of what quality soever;" and the divines of the Assembly were reminded that they were strictly an advisory council.
		Parliament regarded the Assembly's petition as a threat of disobedience to the new enactment.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/wb3.htm (2745 words)

	The Westminster Directory for Worship and the Lining of the Psalms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prior to the Westminster Assembly, it was the practice in many places to post the next weeks’ Psalm selections in a prominent place so the congregation would be prepared to sing them the next week.
		It is lamentable that subsequent generations to the Westminster Assembly made this expedient into a binding rule (as Steele does), and that alone makes the practice worthy of the fate of the brazen serpent.
		Act of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, for the establishing and putting in Execution of the Directory for the Publick Worship of God.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/lining.htm (2607 words)

	[Reprinted from “As I See It,” 6:9]
		In the turbulent decade of the 1640s, an assemblage of learned pastors, theologians, scholars and laymen, dominated by the Puritan party, was gathered in London for the express purpose of reforming the Church of England.
		The Westminster divines were not ignorant of the reality of manuscript variants in all exiting Hebrew and Greek manuscripts.
		Beyond Warfield’s own comments, he produces in the first-cited work numerous quotations from the published works of various Westminster divines showing that his interpretation of the meaning of the WCF in section I. 8 is entirely in harmony with that of the original authors.
	www.kjvonly.org /doug/kutilek_westminster_confession_pr.htm (2241 words)

	Bibliography of Reformed Confessions and Catechisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McKay, "George Gillespie and the Westminster Assembly: The Defence of Presbyterianism." Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 13 (1995): 51-71.
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Being an account of the preparation and printing of its seven leading editions to which is appended a critical text of the confession.
		"Amyraut "at" the Assembly: The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Extent of the Atonement." Presbyterion (1996): 43-55.
	public.csusm.edu /guests/rsclark/bibliography.html (1433 words)

	S Catechism
		The Westminster Assembly of Divines met on the 1st of July 1643, being summoned by the two Houses of Parliament to advise as to a further and more perfect reformation in the Liturgy, Discipline, and Government of the Church of England.
		Vines adopted by the Assembly on the 14th of January 1646-7, that the committee, in preparing drafts of two Catechisms, should have an eye to the Confession of Faith, and to the matter of the Catechism already begun.
		The Assembly completed the Confession, and presented the whole of it, without proofs, to Parliament, which ordered it to he printed "without annexing the texts of Scripture for the present; yet, notwithstanding the House doth expect that the Divines should send in the texts of Scripture with all convenient speed".
	www.fpcjackson.org /resources/church_history/s.htm (6712 words)

	Westminster Confession of Faith
		To the assembly were invited 121 ministers (the "divines"), 10 members of the House of Lords, 20 of the Commons, plus 8 nonvoting (but influential) representatives of Scotland, which was allied to the English Parliament by a treaty, the "Solemn League and Covenant." Different views of church government were represented, presbyterianism being the dominant position.
		The assembly's Confession of Faith, completed in December, 1646, is the last of the classic Reformed confessions and by far the most influential in the English-speaking world.
		Laing, ed., The Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie; S. Carruthers, The Westminster Confession for Today; W. Hetherington, History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines; A. Mitchell and J. Struthers, Minutes of the Sessions of the Westminster Assembly; J. Murray, "The Theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith," in Scripture and Confession, ed.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/westmin.htm (1061 words)

	PE170
		This year we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the calling and convening of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1649), that body of theologians who produced the grand expression of Reformed doctrine in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms.
		In April, 1647, the Assembly acceded to the request of the House of Commons, and appended Scriptural proof-texts in the margins of the Confession.
		When the Westminster theologians spoke of the "general equity of" the judicial laws, they referred to the underlying moral principle which is illustrated by the particular cases mentioned in the judicial laws.
	www.cmfnow.com /articles/pe170.htm (2143 words)

	Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chapter V concentrates on the conclusion of the Assembly, beginning with the composition of the Catechisms.
		The Assembly, writes Hetherington, was occupied "almost entirely by discussions respecting the Directories of Ordination and Worship, till toward the end of 1644.
		The History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines is a must reading for those who love history and wish to have a better understanding of the teachings of the Westminster Confession and its Catechisms.
	www.kinder-kreations.com /westminster.htm (1350 words)

	What was the View of the Westminster Assembly Divines on Creation Days
		Reputed to be one of the most learned men in the Assembly and a leader of the Erastian party, John Selden sought to prove that Christ was born on December 25th in one of his small tracts (like most Erastians, he believed in Holy Days).
		While it is true that Ussher was appointed to the Assembly by Parliament but did not attend since he withdrew shortly thereafter to teach at Oxford in 1643, in light of his stature, a father to the divines, their departure from his position on creation would certainly have been considered a defection during their day.
		On the other hand, at least 22 Westminster divines who were either present, commissioned to serve, or recording the actual proceedings of the Assembly testified—explicitly or implicitly—to their belief in 24 hour days, a fairly short period between creation and Christ’s birth, and a rejection of Augustine’s position.
	www.pressiechurch.org /Theol_2/The_Divines_on_Creation.htm (5973 words)

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		BY DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D. The Westminster Assembly in Session--The Solemn League and Covenant: Scottish Commissioners in the Assembly--Debates on Church-Government: _Apologetical Narration_ of the Independents--Parliamentary Proceedings--Scottish Auxiliary Army in England II.
		The few other changes made by the English Parliament and Westminster Assembly in Henderson's original Edinburgh draft of the Covenant may be traced by a diligent reader in the proceedings of the Lords and Commons on this subject as recorded in their Journals between Aug.
		Accordingly, at the request of the two Houses, the Westminster Assembly (Oct. 1643) appointed two-and-twenty of its Divines to be a committee for examining and reporting on the qualifications of all such petitioners for livings as might be referred to it by Parliament.
	ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/gutenberg/etext04/7mlt310.txt (13842 words)

	Assembly approves Westminster Gardens transfer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Westminster Gardens was purchased by the former Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mission in 1948, with a $1 million gift from Frank M.S. Shu.
		The Assembly asked PPC to work with other resource-producing agencies at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville to seek ways to coordinate publishing efforts, particularly in the areas of product ordering and distribution services.
		The Assembly approved the continued promotion of New Covenant Funds, the mutual -funds arm of the Presbyterian Church (USA) Foundation.
	www.districtnet.org.uk /orbital/news/pcusa/2003/may2003/7800.htm (371 words)

	The Westminster Standards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The sessions of the Westminster Assembly were held in the Jerusalem Chamber, the room projecting to the right of the main entrance.
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters XXIII-XXVII (Of the Civil Magistrate, Of Marriage and Divorce, Of the Church, Of the Communion of Saints, and Of the Sacraments)
		The Westminster Confession of Faith: Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII (Of Baptism, Of the Lord's Supper, Of Church Censures, Of Synods and Councils, Of the State of Men after Death, and of the Resurrection of the Dead, and Of the Last Judgment)
	members.aol.com /RSICHURCH/faith.html (288 words)

	Directory for the Publick Worship of God. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is also provided, That this shall be no prejudice to the order and practise of this kirk, in such particulars as are appointed by the books of discipline, and acts of General Assemblies, an are not otherwise ordered and appointed in the Directory.
		Let all enter the assembly, not irreverently, but in a grave and seemly manner, taking their seats or places without adoration, or bowing themselves towards one place or other.
		If any, through necessity, be hindered from being present at the beginning, they ought not, when they come into the congregation, to betake themselves to their private devotions, but reverently to compose themselves to join with the assembly in that ordinance of God which is then in hand.
	www.covenanter.org /Westminster/directoryforpublicworship.htm (4513 words)

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