Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. In this episode we're going to finish our conversation about Westminster.

We started by looking at five things everyone needs to know about the Westminster Abbey.

Then last week we looked at five things

everyone needs to know about the Westminster standards.

This week, we're going to look at five members

of the Westminster Assembly.

They called them Devines.

The Westminster Assembly consisted of just over 120 people.

At any given time, there were 60 to 80 of them that were involved in the debates and the work and the writing,

but we're just going to pull out five.

The first we're going to look at is William Goog.

Now his name is spelled G-O-U-G-E, but it's pronounced Goog-G-G-G-E,

pastor to church in London right near Black Friars Theatre.

This theatre had quite a reputation, and there was a lady of society that was a member of

Gouge's Church, and at one point she was asked why she did not attend Black Friars Theater.

And she said, well my good sir, there is drama enough in Mr. Guj's sermons.

In 1647, he started the London Presbytery. He wrote many books, and one of them,

if you want to track it down, is a guide to go to God on the Lord's prayer. Another member of the Westminster Assembly is

Jeremiah Burrows. Jeremiah Burrows was trained at Cambridge and he

pastored in East Anglia and then as Archbishop William Laud and Charles the first were turning the heat up on the Puritans,

Jeremiah Burrows found himself exiled to Amsterdam.

He was called back in the early 1640s by Parliament to preach the opening

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