At the Westminster Assembly, the English Puritans, with the help of Presbyterians from Scotland, set out to achieve a great reformation of public worship in the Church of England. Note the use of the word directory rather than liturgy. The preface states that “long and sad experience hath made it manifest, that the Liturgy used in the Church of England, (notwithstanding all the pains of religious intentions of the Compilers of it,) hath proved an offence, not only to many of the godly at home, but also to the reformed Churches abroad.”

Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism by Joel R. Beeke, Sinclair B. Ferguson, James Grier, Michael A. G. Haykin, Nelson Kloosterman, Ray Lanning, Robert Oliver, Ray Pennings, Derek W. H. Thomas, Loc. 3081.

In the family we get to know the secret of life, the secret, namely, that not selfishness but self-denial and self-sacrifice, dedication and love, constitute the rich content of human living.

Herman Bavinck, The Christian Family, 134.

How should one explain the marks of similarity between the biblical narrative and the creation sagas of pagan peoples? This similarity seems to demand that the creation story was known before Moses and that traces of it were preserved by pagans. Of course, if the narrative came to Moses completely or in part by tradition, this in no way detracts from the inspiration by which he was enabled to record it fully and infallibly.

Geerhardus Vos, Reformed Dogmatics, 201.

JAN KRANS, BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN: ERASMUS AND BEZA AS CONJECTURAL CRITICS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, 35.