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Richard Byfield

1598–1664

Long Ditton (Surrey); brother of the scribe Adoniram Byfield.

Biography

Of Queens' College Oxford, then Long Ditton in Surrey from 1627. Richard Byfield was the elder brother of Adoniram the scribe and the son of Nicholas Byfield of Stoke Newington (the Cheshire Puritan whose Marrow of the Oracles of God (1620) was a standard household catechetical handbook). A steady Surrey Presbyterian, Byfield attended the Westminster Assembly through its long main sessions and contributed to the catechetical committee in a minor capacity. He preached the parliamentary fast sermon Temple-Defilers Defiled (1645) against the radical sects. Ejected from Long Ditton in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity; died in 1664.

Principal works

Role at the Assembly

English Presbyterian divine

The great majority of the sitting members were English parish ministers of Presbyterian conviction. They formed the drafting core of the Assembly, manning its three standing committees and supplying most of the text of the Confession, the two Catechisms, and the Directory for Public Worship.

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I. ✦ Scripture
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II. ✠ God & Decree
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III. ⊕ Covenant
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IV. ☧ Christology
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V. ✚ Soteriology
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VI. ⚖ Law & Sanctification
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VII. ☩ Ecclesiology & Worship
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VIII. ⌛ Civil & Last Things
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