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Thomas Ford

1598–1674

Exeter Cathedral; expositor of the Decalogue.

Biography

Of Magdalen Hall Oxford, then Exeter Cathedral lecturer and (after the war) one of the assistant ministers at St Mary Aldermanbury in London under Calamy. Ford was a respected expositor of the Decalogue — his unpublished Exeter sermons survived in eighteenth-century editions — and a steady Presbyterian at the Assembly through the main sessions. Returned to Exeter in 1651 to serve at St Mary Major. Ejected in 1662 under the Act of Uniformity but continued to preach privately in the city. Died at Exeter in 1674.

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

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

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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