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The Headship of Christ is the key doctrine of divine right Presbyterianism. Of the figures of speech used in the New Testament to...

General Assembly is the name usually given to the highest earthly court in the Presbyterian system. It is a representative and temporary...

The Form of Presbyterial Church Government was a product of the Westminster Assembly as part of the plan for a covenanted uniformity in...

The Establishment Principle holds that there may be a legitimate relationship between the church and the state in a Christian country....

The Disruption is the name given to the secession of a third of the Church of Scotland’s ministers in 1843 to form the Free Church of...

Such is the dearth of illustrations of the Westminster Assembly that this 19th-century painting of Philip Nye sounding forth seems all...

Although reliably attributed to Alexander Henderson, The Government and Order of the Church of Scotland is an anonymous pamphlet written...

The National Covenant of 1638 and the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 are at the heart of what is called The Second Reformation. Out...

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The Barrier Act is the name given to an Act of the 1697 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Its full title is “Act IX, Act anent...

Adherent is the Presbyterian term for a baptised person who is a regular attender at, and contributor to, a church, but who has not made...

For Robert Rollock, there is no Covenant of Grace without Christ: the ground of the Covenant is Christ the Mediator: the primary promise...

I like Rutherford’s distinction of the power of the keys and a power about the keys. Christ, the King and Head of the Church, has...

The National Covenant as Social Contract and Responsive Covenant A. Introduction. Wednesday the 28th of February 1638 was “that...

How Jesus Runs the Church. Guy Prentiss Waters. Philipsburg: P&R, 2011, 178 pp., paper. ISBN 978-1-59638-252-7 Guy Waters is Associate...

While looking for something else, I came across a photocopy of some pages from the “Miscellaneous Writings” of Thomas M’Crie (Sr.) titled...

James Bannerman presents three theories regarding the parties to whom Christ has committed the gift of church power.[1] The first theory...

We have turned banners into bumper stickers, rallying cries into memes. The thing which has not changed is the rhetorical flourish, the...

Spear, Wayne R. Covenanted Uniformity in Religion: The Influence of the Scottish Commissioners on the Ecclesiology of the Westminster...