...nations undertook to preserve the Scottish Church, purify the religion of England and Ireland 'according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches', and protect 'the rights and liberties of parliaments'.4 With the benefit of hindsight, it can be seen...

...Parliament promised the Scots that the Elizabethan Church would be dismantled and refashioned 'according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches' (a piece of casuistry, since the Scots wrongly assumed that must mean their own church). By 1646 this...

...undertaking to reform 'religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches' (Constitutional Documents, p. 268). Subsequently, the parliamentary Ordinance of 5 February 1644 required...

...themselves to preserve the newly reformed Church of Scotland and to reform the Church of England "according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches." Hearing this news, William Pynchon wrote to Winthrop that he saw the alliance as "the highway of God...

...themselves to preserve the newly reformed Church of Scotland and to reform the Church of England "according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches." Hearing this news, William Pynchon wrote to Winthrop that he saw the alliance as "the highway of God...

...of church government by stressing another passage in the Covenant, one that tied English reformation to "the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches" (A Solemn League and Covenant, 3, emphasis addedl. future attempts to impose Anglicanism on Scottish...

...the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and 1reland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed churches; and we shall endeavour to bring the churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction...

...Parliament. Parliament in turn agreed to embrace the Covenant and to reform the Church of England 'according to the word of God and the example of the best Reformed churches', and then to 'bring the churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity...

...treaty, by committing themselves to the reform of religion throughout the Stuart dominions 'according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches'.28 The Scots took this to be Geneva and Scotland; the Congregationalist and Erastian casuists...

...'the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches'. In the preceding negotiations, the Scots had wanted the covenant to include a specific commitment to...