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And the Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (1658) is close to 90% identical to the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646). What I have found in my studies of Church History is that there are very few denominations/churches that are what their name signifies, e.g., Congregationalists, Baptists, Anglicans, Episcopals, Christian Reformed, etc., when you compare their present-day doctrinal statements to those of the founding confessions of their respective denominations. For example, and I do speak from painful experience, hand a copy of the Savoy Declaration to your typical Congregationalist, including those who are Elders, and they will either say they have never heard of it or if they have, that they adamantly disagree with its content. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

The fact is, the overwhelming majority of PROTESTANT believers, churches and denominations which came out of the great PROTESTANT REFORMATION, were "Calvinists" in their theology. THAT is what distinguished the Protestants from the Roman State Church. Today, the overwhelming majority of non-Roman churches hold to a soteriology very much akin to Rome; aka: semi-Pelagianism and some Arminianism.

In His grace,