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