Rutherford, Samuel – On the Baptism of the Children of Adherents, Part 2 1644, 16 pages, being the 2nd Part, Chapter 4, Section 6 of The Due Right of Presbyteries, pp. 256-66, with a 3 page extended outline
An adherent is someone who is baptized but does not come to the Lord’s Table. Rutherford further argues for the affirmative against the Independent John Cotton.
The Westminster Divines on Armed Resistance to Tyrrany, 5 works totaling 300 pages
Two of the Westminster divines published their own psalters and one divine wrote a whole book defending psalm singing.
Various Westminster divines published 9 works specifically on the Free Offer off the Gospel. Here they are:
Works of the Westminster Divines on the Free Offer of the Gospel
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God holds eternal life out to us upon a condition (John 3:16). If we believe in Christ, we will be saved. If we do not believe in Christ, we will not receive what is offered, and we will perish.
While the gospel is not conditional as respects any merit or power in us (contrary to Arminianism), yet it is equally wrong to say with hyper-calvinists that the gospel has no conditions whatsoever. Samuel Rutherford (a Westminster divine) here exposits (in congruity with the Westmisnter Larger Catechism #32) how the gospel has evangelical conditions, without which we will never see the Lord (Heb. 12:14).
Rutherford, Samuel – The Gospel is Conditional 1648, 3 pages, being Part 2, Chapter 38, pp. 39-40 of his A Survey of the Spiritual Antichrist.
All of the writings of the Westminster divines that are online are now on one page here. This is the most exhaustive collection on the internet, including 113 authors (of the 160 persons that attended the Assembly) and 538 of their works.
Shortly the works of the divines will be organized by Subject to make the collection even more useful.
Here is spiritual examination at its finest. Sift your heart upon the Tenth Commandment and purify yourself to be lovely in God’s sight through the purgings of repentance.
Gouge, William – On Covetousness 18 pages, these sections are Gouge’s own summaries of his sermons on covetousness from his Commentary on Hebrews
The Westminster divine John Greene wrote a delightful and ravishing extended poem, that is now for the first time republished from nearly 400 years ago. As with all good poetry, be sure to read it out loud.
A Brief Unveiling of God and Man’s Glory: A Poem 1641, 31 pages, with a 7 page introduction by Travis Fentiman
The Biblical and puritan answer to this question is: Yes. Let us not only ask the question, but be willing to practice the answer as well.
Here is a delightful poem (46 stanzas) on meditation and spiritual conferencing by the puritan Richard Rogers (1603):
The elders of the Church of Scotland during the mid-1600’s (the time of the Westminster Assembly) regularly met together for spiritual edification. Samuel Rutherford derived this practice from 1 Cor. 14:29-32. Alexander Henderson tells us what it looked like:
The Church of Scotland on the Spiritual Conferencing of Elders
All worship is regulated by God’s will as revealed in scripture. If we are committed to having Biblical worship, then everything in our worship must be derived from scripture’s teaching, either by command, example, or necessary inference. Are uninspired creeds found in worship in the Bible? This article will help you to search the scriptures and the mind of God on this question.
William Gouge, one of the Westminster divines, has the lengthiest treatment on saying Amen after public prayers that I have found. It is very helpful and well worth your consideration, so that you may say Amen with more conviction and belief than heretofore.