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1. Thank you for the episode. One thing: you say that the Covenanter view of the mediatorial kingship of Christ is just saying that Christ rules the state and the church in the same way. This is not correct. The Covenanters believe that Christ rules both the state and the church distinctly but for the same end—namely, the expansion of the church.

   God bless.

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   • Jared,

     Thank you for this.

     I was trying to articulate these points:

     • Rutherford On The Mediatorial Kingship Of Christ
     • Perkins On The Mediatorial Kingship Of Christ
     • Variety Of Reformed Views On Mediatorial Kingship

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     • I think that I now understand why I once found myself at cross-purposes with an American regarding the use of the word ‘Covenanter’. In Scotland, ‘The Covenanters’ is essentially a period of history between 1638 and 1688, during which a broad coalition of Presbyterians sought to prevent an Episcopal Establishment by a variety of means that ranged from outward conformity with private reservation, through peaceful civil disobedience, to actual armed conflict. The majority, however, considered the Revolution Settlement to be satisfactory. Americans seem to mean, by ‘Covenanters’, the Cameronian sect, which refused the Revolution Settlement as failing to create a ‘Covenanted State’ and withdrew to form the Reformed Presbyterian Synod.

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       • Allan,

         I think this is correct. This is what the RPCNA says in her Covenant of 1871:

         3. Persuaded that God is the source of all legitimate power; that He has instituted civil government for His own glory and the good of man; that He
         has appointed His Son, the Mediator, to headship over the nations; and that the Bible is the supreme law and rule in national as in all other things, we will
         maintain the responsibility of nations to God, the rightful dominion of Jesus Christ over the commonwealth, and the obligation of nations to legislate in
         conformity with the written Word. We take ourselves sacredly bound to regulate all our civil relations, attachments, professions and deportment, by our
         allegiance and loyalty to the Lord, our King, Lawgiver and Judge; and by this, our oath, we are pledged to promote the interests of public order and justice,
         to support cheerfully whatever is for the good of the commonwealth in which we dwell, and to pursue this object in all things not forbidden by the law of God, or inconsistent with public dissent from an unscriptural and immoral civil power.

         We will pray and labor for the peace and welfare of our country, and for its reformation by a constitutional recognition of God as the source of all power, of Jesus Christ as the Ruler of Nations, of the Holy Scriptures as the history supreme rule, and of the true Christian religion; and we will continue to refuse to incorporate by any act, with the political body, until this blessed reformation has been secured.

         Note that the Covenant is the last document before the index.

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