Calvinism, or the Sovereignty of God, in Worship (Free Online Books Against Arminianism In Worship) ow.ly/xWGRV. The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) in the New Testament by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series) ow.ly/ysx1Z. ow.ly/ysx5a The Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series). ow.ly/ysx5a. For God is not worshiped of us, but when it is his will to accept our worship: and it is not his will to accept our worship, but when it is according to his will. - William Perkins (Puritan), on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua The Sovereignty of God Over Worship & The Beauty of Classic Reformed Worship (Free MP3s) ow.ly/xWGwt. The Regulative Principle of Worship declares that God alone is sovereign in worship. The Regulative Principle of Worship simply applies the principles of Calvinism (i.e. Gods sovereign Lordship) to worship, whereas the view that what God doesnt forbid in worship is permitted is applying the principles of Arminianism (i.e. mans sovereign lordship) to worship. Just as fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in salvation (e.g. I can cooperate with God in salvation, or I have a natural freedom to choose Christ), so fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in worship (I can cooperate with God in worship by adding what I desire so long as God doesnt specifically forbid it). But just as God condemns a man-centered salvation, so God condemns a man-centered worship (Col. 2:23 specifically condemns all will-worship, i.e. all worship instituted by man). - Greg Price, Foundation for Reformation: The Regulative Principle of Worship, p. 10, free at swrb/newslett/actualnls/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm or on the Puritan Hard Drive What Is Biblical Worship? - Defending Historic Reformation, Puritan & Covenanter (Biblical) Worship, First & Second Commandments by William J. Mencarow ow.ly/xWItr There has not been a more valuable extra-biblical resource & tool than the Puritan Hard Drive. - Dr. McMahon, A Puritans Mind bit.ly/ci3g2z. Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV ++++++++++ Praise Him…. Whoso offereth praise glorifies me (Psa 50:23) Though nothing can add the least mite to God’s essential glory, yet praise exalts Him in the eyes of others. Praise is a setting forth of God’s honor, a lifting up of His name, a proclaiming of His excellent goodness, a release of the sweet perfume of God’s name which is sent abroad into the world. - Thomas Watson on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua 1,000s of Free Puritan and Reformed Resources (MP3s, Videos, Books, Kindle, etc.) By Subject ow.ly/ujQBg The Puritan Hard Drive a must. - Dr. Steven Dilday ow.ly/fPY4o Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV PURITAN HARD DRIVE SUPER SALE ON NOW, FOR A SHORT TIME -- LOWEST PRICES EVER (STARTING AS LOW AS $97.97, SAVING YOU $200!) ow.ly/EjMBI (DOWNLOADABLE WINDOWS PHD) - ow.ly/EjMs7 (DOWNLOADABLE MAC PHD) - ow.ly/fPY4o (USB-PHD) ow.ly/fPY4o *** 25% OFF THE SALE PRICE OF ALL USB PURITAN HARD DRIVES *** BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR A SHORT TIME ow.ly/fPY4o *** LOWEST PRICE EVER! *** DOWNLOADABLE PHD ON SALE TOO, FOR JUST $97.97 (WAS $297.97) ow.ly/EjMBI (WINDOWS) ow.ly/EjMs7 (MAC) *** Gods Will Vs. Mans Will In Worship, Romanism and Arminianism In Worship Are Heresy (The Plausibility Of Will Worship To Worldly Wisdom, Colossians 2:23, the Regulative Principle Of Worship [RPW], Etc.) By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, et al. ow.ly/xWHEB Why Most Worship Is Actually Idolatry, Which God Hates, According To the Bible (the Second Commandment Or The Regulative Principle Of Worship, RPW) By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, the Westminster Assembly, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, et al. ow.ly/xWHJa The Jews did not spare any cost in their idolatrous worship. No, they ‘cause their sons and daughters to pass through the fire to Molech’ (Jer. 32:35). They were so zealous in their idol worship that they would sacrifice their sons and daughters to their false gods. How far the blind heathen went in their false zeal! When the tribunes of Rome complained that they wanted gold in their treasuries to offer to Apollo, the Roman matrons plucked off their chains of gold and rings and bracelets and gave them to the priests to offer up sacrifice. Were these so zealous in their sinful worship, and will you not be zealous in the worship of the true God? . - Thomas Watson on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua Im am blown away by the Puritan Hard Drive! - Pastor Guillory ow.ly/fPY4o Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV The History of the Service of Song: Real Reformation, Faithful Worship And Praising The Lord Jesus Christ Through Songs by Dr. Steven Dilday ow.ly/xWHlQ John Calvin: ...God here cuts off from men every occasion for making evasions, since he condemns by this one phrase, I have not commanded them, whatever the Jews devised. There is then no other argument needed to condemn superstitions, than that they are not commanded by God: for when men allow themselves to worship God according to their own fancies, and attend not to his commands, they pervert true religion. And if this principle was adopted by the Papists, all those fictitious modes of worship, in which they absurdly exercise themselves, would fall to the ground. It is indeed a horrible thing for the Papists to seek to discharge their duties towards God by performing their own superstitions. There is an immense number of them, as it is well known, and as it manifestly appears. Were they to admit this principle, that we cannot rightly worship God except by obeying his word, they would be delivered from their deep abyss of error. The Prophets words then are very important, when he says, that God had commanded no such thing, and that it never came to his mind; as though he had said, that men assume too much wisdom, when they devise what he never required, nay, what he never knew. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/dZ3ua Reformed Worship & Singing the Psalms, Free MP3s ow.ly/xWGO0 The Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. - Pastor Greg Price Against Antichrists Innovations In Worship (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos & Books) ow.ly/xWGY2 Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalems coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be. - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, Complete Works (on the Puritan Hard Drive), 1867, p. 444 The Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness! - Pastor Mencarow ow.ly/fPY4o Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV 57 Free MP3s: Puritan Worship Series by Greg Price, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, George Gillespie, W.J. 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Gods or mans? - Greg Price, Foundation For Reformation: The Regulative Principle Of Worship, free online at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm How False Worship Destroys Nations Under Gods Wrath By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, John Knox, Kevin Reed, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, Thomas Watson and Others (Free MP3s) ow.ly/xWHxk New Free SWRB Android App, Free SWRB iPhone and iPad App Too, With Many Free Covenanter, Puritan and Reformed MP3s, Books and Videos By Greg Price, Various Westminster Divines (Samuel Rutherford, George Gillespie and Others), Jim Dodson, et al. ow.ly/xWHlQ Colossians 2:8,20-23. The emphasis of the great apostle throughout this chapter is on forsaking the traditions and commandments of men, and rather clinging to Christ and His commandments, for in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge . . in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power (Col 2:3,9-10). Dear ones, you are not complete in yourself or in any man-made ceremonies in worship. You are complete, made full and acceptable through His work on your behalf. He is the head of the church, not you or me. He is our Prophet, Priest, and King. He alone directs our worship and presents it acceptable to the Father. Paul infers that to practice any will-worship (or self-imposed religion Col. 2:23) according to the commandments and doctrines of men (Col. 2:22) is to undermine the finished work of Christ (Col. 2:11-23) and to seek to usurp the headship over the church that rightly belongs to Christ (Col. 2:8-10,18-19). Self-imposed worship (i.e. any religious act, gesture, symbol, or ceremony in worship) is expressly condemned by Christ and His apostles. It is in fact false worship which no Christian should tolerate in the house of God without a verbal protest to the leadership and separation from this false worship until there is biblical reformation in worship (The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, counselling, commanding, using, and any wise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself (The Larger Catechism, Question 109). - Greg Price, Foundation for Reformation: The Regulative Principle of Worship, free online at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechism Study Series by Jim Dodson sermonaudio/go/136911 ... by communicating with idolaters in their rites and ceremonies, we ourselves become guilty of idolatry; even as Ahaz, 2 Kings 16:10, was an idolater, eo ipso, that he took the pattern of an altar from idolaters. Forasmuch, then, as kneeling before the consecrated bread, the sign of the cross, surplice, festival days (like Christmas, Easter, etc.-ed.), bishopping, bowing down to the altar, administration of the sacraments in private places, etc., are the wares of Rome, the baggage of Babylon, the trinkets of the whore, the badges of Popery, the ensigns of Christs enemies, and the very trophies of antichrist, -- we cannot conform, communicate and symbolise with the idolatrous Papists in the use of the same, without making ourselves idolaters by participation. Shall the chaste spouse of Christ take upon her the ornaments of the whore? Shall the Israel of God symbolise with her who is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt? Shall the Lords redeemed people wear the ensigns of their captivity? Shall the saints be seen with the mark of the beast? Shall the Christian church be like the antichristian, the holy like the profane, religion like superstition, the temple of God like the synagogue of Satan? - George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), A Dispute Against English Popish Ceremonies, volume one, p. 80, on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. ALL FREE MP3s, VIDEOS & PDFs BY PASTOR GREG PRICE sermonaudio/go/141290 ALL FREE MP3s & VIDEOS BY PASTOR JIM DODSON sermonaudio/go/137535 Email [email protected] for more by Jim. The Puritan Hard Drive is a magnificent tool for genuine research. - Silversides ow.ly/fPY4o Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV Are Easter, Christmas, Other Popish/Pagan Holy Days (Not Authorized In the Bible), Man-Made Hymns and Musical Instruments In Worship, Etc., Idols? - According To the Classic Reformed View Of The Second Commandment (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books) ow.ly/xWInQ Puritan Hard Drive: 12,500+ Resources, World-Class Study Software! PuritanDownloads/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html The Beasts of Revelation, 666, Etc., by Greg Price (Many Free MP3s and Ongoing) ow.ly/kT3SX. Covenanter (Reformed Presbyterian) Terms of Communion by Greg Price (19 Free MP3s) ow.ly/nLQBF or sermonaudio/go/111211 The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) in the New Testament by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series) ow.ly/xWIyt The Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series) ow.ly/xWIDl My heart burned within me as I discovered truths from hundreds of years ago. - Pastor Phil Gibson (UK) on the Puritan Hard Drive bit.ly/ci3g2z. Singing the Psalms With Jesus and the Idols (Man Made Hymns) of Charles and John Wesley, Isaac Watts, the Trinity Hymnal, Fanny Crosby and Others By Jim Dodson (Free MP3) sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=527141112279 The Puritans On Exclusive Psalmody (Free MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.) puritandownloads/the-puritans-on-exclusive-psalmody-free-mp3s-videos-books-etc/ God not only rejects all invented manners of worship but strongly abominates them. It must be said, in fact, that as soon as men seek to worship God by their own judgment, whatever they produce is foul profanation. - John Calvin, Calvins Ecclesiastical Advice (Translated by Mary Beatty and Benjamin W. Farley; Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991), 19. Isaac Watts (Hymn Writer) Heresies (Unitarianism) On the Trinity & Person of Jesus Christ Exposed (SWRB Blog) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=13797 Trinity Hymnal, Hymns, Heretics, History, Isaac Watts Unitarianism, Women Teachers, Etc. By Pastor W.J. Mencarow (SWRB Blog) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=64297 Excerpt: After reading Hymns, Heretics and History, which makes the point that singing is a powerful form of teaching, and churches that would never allow women to teach men (1 Corinthians 14:34-35) nevertheless sing hymns written by women. I looked in the most recent (red) Trinity Hymnal, which as you know is used by many Reformed churches, to see if there were any hymns with lyrics written by women. There are at least 86. There may be more -- some of the first names are initials. That represents 13% of the total (742). Those songs attributed to The Psalter are 75 in number (10%). So there are more hymns with words written by women in the Trinity Hymnal than there are Psalms, or even what may be paraphrases of Psalms. Also, there are 35 hymns written by Isaac Watts, who at the least had unorthodox views of the Trinity and seems closer to Arianism. If you love the Bible, then you may well be Reformed. If you think of yourself as Reformed, but you have seldom or have never read older Reformed literature, prepare to be challenged. The Puritan Hard Drive provides primary sources and depth of theological and spiritual insight which is lacking in much of what is passed off as genuine Reformed theology. If you think of yourself as conservative, the older Puritan and Reformed authors will help you sort reality from myth in your quest to be truly Reformed. There are more solid resources for less money here than anywhere else. I highly recommend you take responsibility for your soul and spend a few shekels for this cup of cold water in the midst of the modern religious desert. - Jim Dodson, Reformed Presbyterian Scholar, ow.ly/FDjpV - covenanter.org/ Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV Exclusive Psalmody By Pastor Greg Price, (7 Free SWRB MP3s, SWRB Blog) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=60290 The definitive audio series defending exclusive Psalmody. Psalm Singing In The Early Church. Concerning the early Church, Bushell notes that, The introduction of uninspired hymns into the worship of the Church was a gradual process, and it was not until the fourth century that the practice became widespread. G.I. Williamson further points out that a second noteworthy fact is that when uninspired hymns first made their appearance, it was not among the orthodox Churches but rather the heretical groups ... If the Church from the beginning had received authority from the Apostles to make and use uninspired hymns, it would be expected that it would have done so. But it did not. Rather it was among those who departed from the faith that they first appeared. This historical testimony raises a number of interesting questions for those who claim to adhere to the regulative principle of worship and yet maintain the use of uninspired hymns in public worship. First, if the Psalter had been insufficient, why was there no command to produce new songs for worship, only commands to sing that which was already in existence? Second, if a new manual of praise was necessary, why was it that the Apostles did not write any new songs under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit? Third, why is it that we do not find even one hymn fragment among all the early church writings that have survived to this day. Moreover, there is not even one mention of the use of uninspired hymns among orthodox Christians until they began to be written in reply to the heretical hymns, which had not surfaced until late in the second century? (8. The first use of uninspired hymns was found among a heretical group called the Bardessanes. Cf. Williamson, Singing of Psalms, p. 16. 9. Bushell, Songs of Zion, p. 125.) Fourth, why was there still strong opposition to the introduction of uninspired hymns well into the fifth century? The Synod of Laodicea (A.D. 343) and the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) both opposed the introduction of uninspired hymns. In addition to this Bushell states that as late as the ninth century we find appeals to the earlier Councils in support of a pure psalmody. - PSALM SINGING IN SCRIPTURE & HISTORY by Dr. Reg Barrow (emphases added) swrb/newslett/actualNLs/CRTPsSing.htm Hymns of human composition are used so commonly now in public worship by Presbyterian churches that it is difficult to believe that the practice is not a hundred years old, and that in some of the churches it is of very recent date. On the supposition that it is good and dutiful and wise to sing such hymns in worship, it is equally difficult to account for the neglect of the churches at the time of the Reformation, and for generations afterwards. What could have so blinded the reformers as to make them reject hymns and sing the Psalms alone? How could the Westminster Divines, in framing their Confession of Faith and Directory for Worship, have been so unanimous in the blunder that the service of praise is to consist of the singing of Psalms? And apart from the aspect of duty, how could the Presbyterian churches, for about a hundred and fifty or two hundred years after the Westminster Assembly, have been so insensible to the power of hymns as an attractive addition to their public services? We cannot by any means understand how it was that, if it was dutiful to use hymns in worship, the reformers did not discover the Scriptural warrant for the duty, especially as hymns had been used for centuries by the Church of Rome. Nor can we understand how they rejected the hymns and used the Psalms alone, unless on the supposition that they believed the use of hymns to be part of the will-worship of Rome. If they were wrong on this point, then Rome and our modern Presbyterian churches are right. In that case, the Puritans and Covenanters were fanatics, and Romanists were truly enlightened! And most of our Presbyterian churches of the present day were fanatical too, and did not become truly enlightened and liberal till they got back to the Romish practice! - James Dick, Hymns and Hymn Books (1883) on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o Psalm Singing in Scripture and History by Dr. Reg Barrow (Free MP3 and Text) puritandownloads/psalm-singing-in-scripture-and-history-by-dr-reg-barrow/ The History of the Service of Song: Real Reformation, Faithful Worship And Praising The Lord Jesus Christ Through Songs by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free Reformed MP3s, Books, Etc.) puritandownloads/the-history-of-the-service-of-song-real-reformation-faithful-worship-and-praising-the-lord-jesus-christ-through-songs-by-dr-steven-dilday/ What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. 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