Origin from 1658
The Savoy Declaration, whose full title is A Declaration of the Faith and Order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England, is a confession of faith produced by English Independents and Congregationalists who assembled at the Savoy Hospital in London in October 1658. Delegates from more than a hundred independent churches, predominantly laypeople, met for eleven or twelve days under a committee headed by Thomas Goodwin and John Owen, and the resulting document comprises a preface, a confession, and a thirty-article platform of church discipline. It adapted the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith as its template while also drawing on the Cambridge Platform produced by the Congregational churches of New England. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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