The Church and the State (2)

The teaching of Presbyterianism is regarding the Church and State is found in the original Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 23, entitled, "Of the Civil Magistrate." It reads as follows: "I. God, the supreme Lord and King of all the world hath ordained civil magistrates to be under him over the people, for His own glory, and the publick good; and, to this end, hath armed them with the power of the sword, for the defence and encouragement of them that are good, and for the punishment of...