The Free Church of Scotland (1843)
Edinburgh, 18 May 1843 (the Disruption)
When 474 ministers (out of ~1,200) walked out of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 18 May 1843 over the patronage question and state interference in spiritual matters, they constituted the Free Church of Scotland — confessionally committed to the Westminster Standards in the original 1647 Scottish text, including the custos-utriusque-tabulae magistrate clause. The Disruption was the most dramatic assertion of the anti-Erastian principle Gillespie had argued at Westminster. The Free Church preserved strict Sabbath observance, exclusive metrical psalmody, and the complete 1647 confessional text through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Departures from the Westminster baseline
This school holds the Westminster baseline on all 35 attributes — no departures from the Standards' own positions on Scripture, the decree, covenant, Christology, soteriology, law, ecclesiology, or civil matters.
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Cruxes where this school's anchor personas were active parties, or where this tradition is mentioned in the legacy narrative.