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2 unusual facts about Westminster Assembly


Barnet, Vermont

On January 24, 1784, the town of Barnet voted unanimously to make the Presbyterian denomination the official one of the town, as it was "founded on the word of God as expressed in the Confession of Faith, Catechisms Longer and Shorter, with the form of church government agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and practiced by the Church of Scotland."

Chad Van Dixhoorn

Chad Van Dixhoorn, a Canadian-born Reformed theologian and historian, is the editor of the five-volume The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly: 1643-1652 published by Oxford University Press in 2012.


Edmund Butcher

He had been taught the assembly's catechism, but he says he never gave credence to the trinitarian doctrine, and his studies confirmed him in Arian views.

Hannibal Gamon

On 20 April 1642 he was designated, with Gaspar Hickes (1605-1677) of Landrake, as the representative of Cornwall in the Westminster Assembly of divines.

Hymnbooks of the Church of Scotland

A complete psalter by Francis Rous, an English member of Parliament, was revised by the Westminster Assembly but did not satisfy the Scots.

Nondenominational Christianity

Denominationalism was accelerated in the aftermath of the Westminster Assembly convened by the English Parliament to formulate a form of religion for the national churches of England and Scotland.

Thomas Erastus

In the Westminster Assembly a party holding this view included John Selden, John Lightfoot, Thomas Coleman and Bulstrode Whitelocke, whose speech (1645) is appended to Lee's version of the Theses; but the opposite view, after much controversy, was carried, Lightfoot alone dissenting.


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Simeon Ashe

He was nominated to the Westminster assembly after the death in 1643 of Josias Shute.