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Puritan Profiles: 54 Influential Puritans at the Time When the Westminster Confession of Faith Was Written is unavailable, but you can change that!

The history of seventeenth century England was tumultuous. During this period England underwent a civil war, a regicide, an experiment with republican government, a restoration of monarchy and constant upheavals in politics and religion. As the century began, Puritans were poised against Episcopalians, Parliament against the forces of an absolutist monarchy and the question hung in the air—what...

subject to civil approval. Although all the Westminster divines were still committed to the concept of an established national church, the majority of them, like John Calvin, maintained the prerogative of the church, in administering the keys bestowed by Christ, to determine who could come to the Lord’s Supper and enjoy the fellowship of the church and who could be excluded for reasons of scandal or heresy. The ‘crisis of the Assembly’ occurred in March and April 1646, when the Assembly protested
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