The Westminster Confession of Faith is a classic statement of Christian theology. It was drafted over some three years of debate by more than a hundred ministers and theologians of the Westminster Assembly in England, and completed in December 1646. It remains one of the most influential confessions of the Reformed and Presbyterian churches, widely admired for its clarity, depth, precision and comprehensiveness.
Baxter's charge to ministers (1656) on Acts 20:28: first guard your own soul, then the flock — above all through personal, household-by-household catechising, as he practised in Kidderminster. "Reformed" means renewed, not a denomination.