[valkyrieanne]

Looking over your list, one thing puzzles me. You list many framers of the US Constitution identified as "Episcopalian (Calvinist)," but neither the Church of England nor the American Episcopal Church are particularly Calvinist in doctrine.

[Matchett-PI]

"Looking over your list, one thing puzzles me. You list many framers of the US Constitution identified as "Episcopalian (Calvinist)," but neither the Church of England nor the American Episcopal Church are particularly Calvinist in doctrine."

That wasn't true in the past. The few Episcopalian congregations that adhere to their historic doctrine are still Reformed in the United States.

For details, read on:

"...In England, Calvinism also prevailed since it was the theology behind the Thirty-Nine Articles (1563) of the Church of England" (Paul Enns, *Moody Handbook of Theology*. Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), p. 476.

The Episcopalians held as their subordinate standards the 39 Articles of Religion. This confession is Calvinistic in emphasis.

During that historic period, not only the 39 Articles of Religion ("Episcopalians"), but whenever you read of the Waldensians, the Bohemian Brethren (in Poland), the Huguenots, you're reading of churches that were Calvinistic.

Historic Protestant, Episcopalian doctrine is Reformed and Calvinistic. The Episcopalian church *that adheres to its historic doctrine* is still Reformed in the United States.

X. OF FREE WILL. 39 Articles of Religion.

The condition of Man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God. Wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.

XVII. OF PREDESTINATION AND ELECTION:

Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season: they through Grace obey the calling: they be justified freely: they be made sons of God by adoption: they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ: they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity.