http://www.reformedbaptistinstitute.org/?p=550
Help me with links or primary sources as I look into this.
I suppose this is why the 1689 omits the articles on divorce, following the Savoy?
there were actually 2 different versions of the Westminster Confession published in the late 1640s. The one we commonly know was a private printing, done for the members of the Assembly and Parliament. It was taken to Scotland and published there without the authorization of the English Parliament. It has become the definitive version for English-speaking Presbyterianism, and incorporates the paragraphs about divorce in chapter 24. But there was another edition published, by Parliament, which included several significant changes, including the excision of the paragraphs on divorce in chapter 24. Parliament probably believed that divorce was a civil matter, and thus not appropriate for a strictly religious Confession of Faith. When the Independents published the Savoy Declaration, they were following the text printed by Parliament a decade earlier.
Help me with links or primary sources as I look into this.
I suppose this is why the 1689 omits the articles on divorce, following the Savoy?