What is the Regulative Principle of Worship. An Introduction to “A Critical Survey of the Worship Views of John M. Frame and R. J. Gore,” By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. and David C. Lachman, Ph.D.

Note: The following is an introduction written for the article noted. See The Confessional Presbyterian 1 (2005) 116-150.

One of the key reformational doctrines 1 determinate of the health if not the being of a “Presbyterian” Church is the aptly named Regulative Principle...

Again, it is often claimed that Calvin did not hold to the Puritan Regulative Principle of Worship (to speak anachronistically). Rather the Puritans followed Calvin in placing key importance on the RPW. Horton Davies' Worship of the English Puritans is another work covered in "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature Part One (1946–1999)," By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. with Chris Coldwell, in The Confessional Presbyterian (2006) 89-164.
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It is often claimed, almost always by those rejecting it, that the Puritans invented the regulative principle of worship. A good and often printed article on Calvin by Robert Godfrey is online here. The following is an extract from "The Regulative Principle of Worship: Sixty Years in Reformed Literature Part One (1946–1999)," By Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D. with Chris Coldwell, in The Confessional Presbyterian (2006) 89-164.

The year 1977 also saw the appearance of perhaps the earliest thesis to make

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A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism: Q. 1–50


Q. 1. What is the chief and highest end of man?
A. Man’s chief and highest end is to glorify God,a and fully to enjoy him forever.b
a. Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 10:31.
b. Ps. 73:24–28; John 17:21–23.

Variants:
1. In Q. “What is the chief, and”: MSb.
2. “Man’s”: The use of the apostrophe throughout generally becomes standard from DNLP forward in the...