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Old 08-03-2008, 08:36 PM
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The regulative principle -- what is not commanded is forbidden, WCF 20:2, 21:1. If one prefers to say "prescribed" instead of "commanded" I don't think anyone will quibble over words; but if one adds "prescribed" worship to "commanded" worship, and thereby creates elements which are not required but merely permissible, his regulative principle has ceased to be regulatory of worship.
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