John Phillip
d. 1660
Wrentham co-pastor with Bridge.
Biography
Co-pastor with William Bridge at Wrentham, Suffolk. A working Assembly member of Independent sympathies.
Role at the Assembly
Independent / Dissenting Brethren
A small but articulate minority of Congregationalist divines — the 'Dissenting Brethren' — who pressed for a gathered-church polity against the Presbyterian majority. Their Apologeticall Narration (1644) and their dissents in the Grand Debate over church government shaped the Confession's carefully worded chapters and anticipated the Savoy Declaration of 1658.
Ontology placement
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I.
✦ Scripture
Sufficiency
Express-And-Good-Consequence
Canon
66-Book-Protestant-Canon
Authority
Self-Authenticating-With-Internal-Witness
Interpretation
Scripture-Interprets-Scripture
Necessity
Necessary-After-The-Fall
II.
✠ God & Decree
Trinity
Nicene-With-Filioque
Order of Decrees
Deliberately-Permits-Both
Extent of Atonement
Particular
Reprobation
Preterition-And-Just-Condemnation
Covenant of Redemption
Implicit-Affirmed
III.
⊕ Covenant
Number of Covenants
Bi-Covenantal
Mosaic Covenant
Administration-Of-Grace
Children of Believers
Federal-Inclusion-Paedobaptist
Testamental Continuity
One-Substance-Different-Administrations
IV.
☧ Christology
Natures
Chalcedonian-Two-Natures
Offices
Prophet-Priest-King
States & Descent
Humiliation-And-Exaltation; No-Local-Descent
Active-Obedience Imputation
Active-And-Passive-Obedience-Imputed
Effectual Calling
Effectual-And-Renewing
Justification Ground
Imputed-Righteousness-Of-Christ
Saving Faith
Receptive-Resting-On-Christ-Alone
Perseverance
Certain-For-The-Elect
Assurance
Attainable-But-Not-Essence-Of-Faith
Uses of the Law
Three-Uses-Affirmed
Tripartite Division
Moral-Judicial-Ceremonial
Sabbath
Lords-Day-Fourth-Commandment-Perpetual
Good Works
Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious
Polity
Independent-Congregational
≠
Sacramental Efficacy
Signs-And-Seals-Conferring-Grace-By-Spirit
Regulative Principle
Strict-Only-What-Commanded
Censures & Synods
Three-Degrees-With-Graded-Synods
VIII.
⌛ Civil & Last Things
Magistrate's Role
Custos-Utriusque-Tabulae (1646)
Oaths & Marriage
Oaths-Lawful-Serious; Divorce-Adultery-Or-Desertion
Intermediate State
Immediate-Conscious-With-God-Or-Judgment
Final Judgment
Single-Universal-Judgment-By-Christ