[To drum up interest in CPJ, I will be running extracts from “A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism: Q. 1–50,” which will appear, D.V. in The Confessional Presbyterian 3 (2007) due off the press October 1st. As the work is quite extensive, the full catechism will be presented seriatim across several issues, again Lord willing. NB. Bolded text denotes a variation in wording rather than simply punctuation or other variants less significant .]

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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...

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In the second segment Paul starts off with his rebuttal with a cross-examination of Gene’s knowledge and doctrine of Jeremiah 31 and Hebrews 8.

(Heb 8:11) And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

(Jer 31:34) And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least...

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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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