Though there’s some debate about whether this is actually the case, it looks like the Westminster Confession was crafted to exclude Amyraldians. Ch. 3, sec. 6 includes this sentence: “Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified, and saved, but the elect only.” Amyraldians typically hold that the non-elect are redeemed. As documented and discussed by B.B. Warfield, this single sentence captured a raging debate at the assembly and was very intentionally crafted to exclude the Amyraldian divines present.
So I’m a non-confessional Presbyterian. This is fine. Like the excluded Amyraldian divines that precede me, I can at least claim to stand in the same room with the Confessors.
Some English-tradition Presbyterian-Amyraldians: John Cameron, John Davenant, and Edmund Calamy.
I very well may be able to affirm the Canons of Dort, however.
https://heidelblog.net/2015/11/warfield-the-westminster-excluded-amyraldianism/
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