What Do Presbyterians Believe? by Gordon H. Clark

The following commentary on the Westminster Confession by Gordon H. Clark will be presented in a series of posts.  This is also a booklet available from The Trinity Foundation.  The format is audio.  I'm not sure who the person is doing the reading.  However, it is the same as the print version.  I'm presenting this not because I'm a Presbyterian or a "Puritan".  Puritans rejected the 1662 Book of Common Prayer while the Anglo-Reformed movement does not.  Even though the Westminster Confession of Faith is not the official confession of the Church of England, it is a more complete exposition of the Scriptural teaching on the doctrines of grace.  The Thirty-nine Articles were an edited version of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's Forty-two Articles.  The Forty-two Articles are not available online at this time but anyone who compares the two can clearly see Cranmer's Reformed theology.  The Lambeth Articles of 1595 were never officially adopted by the Church of England but they are a solid indication that Calvinism held a strong place in the church.  The Irish Articles of 1615 are another indication of this fact.  Those who claim that the English presence at the Synod of Dort in 1618-19 was an Amyraldian or an Arminian presence are simply reading back into history what is not there.  It is revisionism with an anachronistic agenda.

Thanks to The Trinity Foundation for posting this with their free downloads and MP3s at Trinity Lectures.  To hear the introduction to What Do Presbyterians Believe? click on Readers' Introduction.

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