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Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Tradition

Scotland, 1680s – present

The Reformed Presbyterian Church descends from the Cameronians — the strictest Covenanter wing that refused the Restoration settlement and continued to treat the Solemn League and Covenant as binding. The RPCNA (Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America) and the RPCS (Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland) retain the 1646 Westminster text in its entirety, including the custos-utriusque-tabulae magistrate clause, the Pope-as-Antichrist identification, and exclusive metrical psalmody. They are the most conservative confessional subscribers to Westminster.

Departures from the Westminster baseline

Full confessional alignment.

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.

This school holds the Westminster baseline on all 35 attributes — no departures.

Connected cruxes 7

Cruxes where this school's anchor personas were active parties, or where this tradition is mentioned in the legacy narrative.

The Grand Debate over Polity October 1644 – January 1646 The Regulative Principle of Worship 1644–1645 The Rouse Psalter and Metrical Psalmody 1643–1648 The Magistrate and the Two Tables 1646; revised 1788 The Pope as Antichrist 1646 The Solemn League and Covenant August–September 1643 The 1788 American Revision 1787–1788 (post-Assembly)

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