rules, or traditions, touching time and place of God’s worship, and touching order and comeliness in the same.… This kind of tradition, whether made by general Councils or particular Synods, we have care to maintain and observe.”6 In this book our wager is that Perkins was right: to be Reformed means to go deeper into true catholicity, not to move away from catholicity. A number of theological trends have arisen in recent decades, each of which celebrates or calls
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