“The context for understanding the Westminster Confession is, certainly, the exegetical and doctrinal heritage of the Reformation as presented through the interpretive glass of the English and Scot Reformed theology of the mid-seventeenth century, which was itself part of the larger phenomenon that has been called ‘international Calvinism'” (Richard A Muller and Rowland S. Ward, Scripture and Worship: Biblical Interpretation and the Directory for Worship,  9).