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1645 THOMAS GATAKER. Westminster Assembly Puritan Takes a Break from Military Civil War to Fight Theological Civil War. Anglican likely the British Crown] andThis one fascinates me. Deep in the heat of the English Civil War, serving as a pastor at Rotherhith and a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, the aging Thomas Gataker [1574 1654] takes the time to engage in theological controversy. Gataker seemed always in the thick of it. He was a moderate in the Westminster Assembly, which made him fair target for both those in favor of more generous religious liberty and for those in favor of a