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Scottish Commissioners

Church of Scotland General Assembly → Westminster, 1643–1647

The four ministerial commissioners (Henderson, Rutherford, Gillespie, Baillie) and four ruling-elder commissioners (Lauderdale, Loudoun, Cassillis, Wariston) sent by the Scottish General Assembly under the Solemn League and Covenant. Advisory rather than voting members, but enormously influential. They pressed jure-divino presbyterianism, supralapsarianism (Twisse aligned with them on the decree), an explicit pactum salutis, and the custos-utriusque-tabulae magistrate. Gillespie's defeat of Selden on Erastianism was the Scottish commission's most consequential intervention.

Anchor personas

Alexander Henderson 1583–1646 Scottish Commissioner (minister) Samuel Rutherford c. 1600–1661 Scottish Commissioner (minister) George Gillespie 1613–1648 Scottish Commissioner (minister) Robert Baillie 1602–1662 Scottish Commissioner (minister) Archibald Johnston of Wariston 1611–1663 Scottish Commissioner (ruling elder) John Maitland, 2nd Earl of Lauderdale 1616–1682 Scottish Commissioner (ruling elder) John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun 1598–1662 Scottish Commissioner (ruling elder) John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassillis c. 1595–1668 Scottish Commissioner (ruling elder)

Departures from the Westminster baseline

Scottish Commissioners departs from the Westminster baseline on 2 of the 35 attributes.

II · God & Decree · Order of Decrees

Supralapsarian override vs WCF: Deliberately-Permits-Both

II · God & Decree · Covenant of Redemption

Explicit-Developed override vs WCF: Implicit-Affirmed

Connected cruxes 20

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

The Order of the Decrees 1644–1645 The Extent of the Atonement January 1646 The Decree of Reprobation 1645 The Covenant of Redemption 1645–1647 The Children of Believers and the Sign of the Covenant 1645 The Imputation of Christ's Active Obedience August–October 1645 Assurance: Of the Essence of Saving Faith? 1646–1647 The Perseverance of the Saints 1646 The Third Use of the Moral Law 1645–1646 The Strict Sabbath 1645 The Grand Debate over Polity October 1644 – January 1646 The Erastian Question July 1645 – November 1645 The Regulative Principle of Worship 1644–1645 Sacramental Efficacy: Signs and Seals 1646 The Magistrate and the Two Tables 1646; revised 1788 The Pope as Antichrist 1646 Grounds of Divorce: Adultery and Wilful Desertion 1646 The Conscious Intermediate State 1647 The Final Judgment and the Last Things 1647 The Solemn League and Covenant August–September 1643

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