Savoy Declaration

Its full title is A Declaration of the Faith and Order owned and practised in the Congregational Churches in England.

It was drawn up in October 1658 by English Independents and Congregationalists meeting at the Savoy Hospital, London.

[6] The Savoy Declaration authors adopted, with a few alterations, the doctrinal definitions of the Westminster confession, reconstructing only the part relating to church government; the main effect of the Declaration of the Savoy assembly was to confirm the Westminster theology.

Other changes include a replacement to chapters 30 and 31 of the Westminster Confession concerned with Congregational church government.

[11] It is a new document, not a revision of either the earlier congregationalist Cambridge Platform or the Form of Presbyterial Church Government produced by the Westminster Assembly, at which key framers of Savoy were present.