Andrew WebbIntroduction: I decided some time ago to publish an article examining the appearance of a form of worship that incorporated the liturgy, church year, and worship practices of the Anglican church into Presbyterianism. This blended form of worship that I refer to as Episcoterian began to appear in the early 20th century and had largely replaced the simple and expressly biblical worship of the Old School Presbyterian (OSP) church by the 1950s. This replacement was so complete that when Presbyterians refer to traditional (as opposed to contemporary) worship, this form of worship, and not the OSP worship that preceded it, is almost always what they are referring to. I stress that point because often critics of Old School Presbyterianism are actually criticizing Episcoterianism and have never actually experienced OSP worship and practice.The critical problem with Episcoterianism is that it is not based on or compatible with the doctrine that lays at the heart of all Presbyterian worship the Regulative Principle which states that the acceptable way of worshiping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshiped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture (WCF 21.1) The RPW is a logical outgrowth of the doctrine of Sola Scriptura and the integrally related doctrine of the sufficiency of scripture, and states that Christ alone has the authority to determine how his church should worship Him, and that He has done so in the Bible.Episcoterian worship however is based upon the Anglican theory that The Church hath power to decree Rites or Ceremonies (The 39 Articles, Article 20) essentially stating that Christ has granted the church the authority to create new patterns for worship and to decree that congregations shall adopt and follow these patterns. Thus in Episcoterianism we see the introduction of many elements into worship that, while they may be ancient, are not prescribed in scripture such as vestments, the church year, lectionaries, processions, liturgies, the use of images, etc.Of late this traditional worship is enjoying something of a revival in Presbyeterian churches, often as a result of the rejection of contemporary worship. In some congregations they have gone well beyond the old blended Episcoterianism of the 1950s and have instituted what can only be described as high-church Anglican or even Anglo-Catholic worship.In the next article, I will examine historically how Episcoterianism crept into Presbyterianism in the late 1800s, but now I want to publish a document, Presbyterians Reject Prescribed Liturgies, that should show in detail how alien Episcoterianism is to Old School Presbyterianism.The following was part of a book entitled Presbyterianism which was written at the request of the official Presbyterian Board of Publication in 1835 by Samuel Miller (1769-1850). Miller, with Archibald Alexander, was one of the founding professors of Old Princeton. He served as professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government there from 1813 till his death. This paper does not express some sort of radical