I'm looking for reliable resources that would help explain the position of the RPCNA with respect to civil government. Also, anything that would explain the differences between where the RPs are at on this issue compared to the OPC and the PCA. I'm trying to understand the differences in the positions of these three denominations and also how their positions are similar to or different from 1) theonomy, and 2) Calvin's Geneva.

Any suggestions?

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Bruce
OPC
Pennsylvania

The following might be of some relevance, but it's really only pertaining to modern day voting. Nonetheless:

Our Political Protest: Why Covenanters Do Not Vote by Rev. J.H. Boggs

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

Compare the original WCF XXIII:3, which the RPCNA affirms, though qualified by their Testimony, with the OPC/PCA version of XXIII:3.

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Glenn Ferrell
Pastor, Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Boise, Idaho

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The duty of magistrates...extends to both tables of the law, ... those laws are absurd which disregard the rights of God, and consult only for men. - Calvin, Institutes, IV:20:9