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The Reformation and Reaction (1500-1800 AD) (Westminster Confession)
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(3) Westminster Confession
1) While under Elizabeth both the bishops and their Puritan critics shared a common Calvinist theology, many of the new bishops rejected it.
2) They denied the doctrine of predestination and were therefore called Arminians, though their theology was very different from that of Arminius who desired more ritual in church worship.
3) At first the initiative lay with the Presbyterians. The Scots wanted the Church of England to become like the Church of Scotland. To this end, Parliament convened the Westminster Assembly, which met in more than thousand sessions from 1643 to 1649 - and irregularly thereafter.
4) To legislate for one common Presbyterian establishment of religion for British Isles. To this end the assembly produced a Directory for the Publick Worship of God, designed to replace the Book of Common Prayer. They produced the Shorter and Larger Catechisms, which have achieved a status comparable to Luther's two catechims.
5) But their greatest achievement was the Westminster Confession, a statement of 17th-century Reformed belief comparable in length and status to the Lutheran Augsburg Confession.
6) The Westminster Confession was intended to replace the Thirty-nine Articles, in which this Confession reflects seventeenth-century British Calvinism, which differs in a number of ways from the teaching of Calvin himself. It was not adopted by the Church of England, but was widely accepted by the English-speaking Presbyterian churches and others. Especially the Church of Scotland adopted it in 1647, in the place of the earlier Scots Confession drawn up by John Knox and others.
7) The victory of Westminster was that of Presbyterianism. But Presbyterian turned out to be no more tolerant than the Arminians before them and their popularity waned.
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