Westminster Assembly

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noun

1. a convocation that met at Westminster, London, 1643–49, and formulated the articles of faith Westminster Confession of Faith that are accepted as authoritative by most Presbyterian churches.

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Westminster Assembly

He was one of the Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, to the Westminster Assembly.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

If, now, we return to the consideration of the Orthodox doctrine of the fall, as set forth by the Westminster Assembly, we shall find it to be half true and half false.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Either he or his father, James Rowlandson, also of Queen's College, was sequestered by the Westminster Assembly to the vicarage of Battle, Sussex, in 1644.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

Such was the famous Westminster Assembly, called together by the Parliament of England to consider the entire state of the country in matters of religion.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson

Latimer and Cranmer.—For the opinion of Alesius on Latimer and Cranmer, see Dr Mitchell's Westminster Assembly, 1883, p.

From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by David Hay Fleming