A lot of Rush's work was ground breaking, and there were some personal prejudices of the type we all have that influence him. He could hardly keep from turning any sort of talk involving perversion to Turks (they killed 99% of his family) and even returned a Turkish gold coin that someone donated to Chalcedon. Another had to do with poor treatment he received from a segment of a certain church, and code like Orthodox Pharisee Church with meaning clear to insiders can be found in his works. These things all have to be kept in mind when reading Rush. He was no enemy of the WCF, he just felt it was inconsistant in that area. He reminded me of Luther in a lot of ways. There were parts of the US Constitution that he didn't like, but he didn't want it changed because he didn't trust anyone to do a better job. He gave full membership (actually he didn't have formal membership for several reasons) to everyone who held to any of the historic Reformed confessions. I was a Reformed Baptist at the time, and I was treated just like everyone else. Which is a long way of saying not to read too much into everything he wrote.

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Tim Vaughan, 48 years old, member Redeemer OPC, Santa Maria CA.