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It includes the Scripture references "at large" meaning they are fully written out.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Westminster Standards</b> is a collective name for the documents drawn up by the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Assembly" title="Westminster Assembly">Westminster Assembly</a> (1643–1649). These include the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith" title="Westminster Confession of Faith">Westminster Confession of Faith</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Shorter_Catechism" title="Westminster Shorter Catechism">Westminster Shorter Catechism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Larger_Catechism" title="Westminster Larger Catechism">Westminster Larger Catechism</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Directory_of_Public_Worship" class="mw-redirect" title="Directory of Public Worship">Directory of Public Worship</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Form_of_Presbyterial_Church_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Form of Presbyterial Church Government">Form of Church Government</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and represent the doctrine and church polity of 17th century English and Scottish <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterianism</a>. The Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger and Shorter Catechism have been adopted as doctrinal standards by a number of <a href="/wiki/Reformed_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Reformed tradition">Reformed</a> and Presbyterian Christian denominations, but not the Church of Scotland nor those derived directly from it.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-978-1-60178-244-1_p196-198_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-978-1-60178-244-1_p196-198-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the approval of the Confession and catechisms by the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a> in 1648, printers in England and Scotland began publishing them with other religious documents in collections referred to as the Westminster Standards. In 1658 printers began including the full Scripture passages which are cited in the confessional documents. These collections became standardized in a 1728 edition, which follows a 1679 work published by <a href="/wiki/Covenanter" class="mw-redirect" title="Covenanter">Covenanters</a> exiled in <a href="/wiki/Holland" title="Holland">Holland</a> and contains twenty-two documents including parliamentary acts related to the Assembly and devotional works. These collections were intended to serve as ecclesiastical manuals as well as comprehensive popular religious books. The 1728 form of the Standards continues to be printed by the <a href="/wiki/Free_Presbyterian_Church_of_Scotland" title="Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland">Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the nineteenth century, several churches separated from the Church of Scotland on the basis of the established church's departure from a list of documents similar to those found in standard collections of the Westminster Standards. 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