FREE MP3: Biblical Worship: The Regulative Principle of Worship in History by Dr. Reg Barrow ow.ly/yPHZo. ow.ly/Aq6s8 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 Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV ow.ly/Aq6s8 The Westminster Larger (Q&A 107-110) and Shorter (Q&A 49-52) Catechisms On the Second Commandment (Reformed Worship, the Regulative Principle of Worship, Etc.) by Jim Dodson (Free MP3s) ow.ly/Aq6s8. These four messages make up some of the best teaching you will ever hear on the second commandment, Puritan and Reformed worship, and the regulative principle of worship. 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 ow.ly/Aq6U6 Calvinism, Reformation (Reformed) Worship, the Second Commandment, and the Regulative Principle of Worship by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s) ow.ly/Aq6U6 Forasmuch then, as kneeling before the consecrated bread, the sign of the cross, surplice, festival days (Eater, Christ-Mass, etc. - ed.) , bishopping, bowing 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 symbolize with. - George Gillespie, Scottish Commissioner to the Westminster Assembly, ow.ly/fPY4o The Sovereignty of God Over Worship & The Beauty of Classic Reformed Worship (Free MP3s) ow.ly/xWGwt. We have no superstitious regard for times and seasons. Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no scriptural warrant for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority. - Charles Spurgeon ow.ly/fPY4o All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin, ow.ly/fPY4o Singing the Psalms With Jesus and the Idols (Man Made Hymns) of John and Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts, the Trinity Hymnal, Fanny Crosby, and Others By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, W.J. Mencarow, Westminster Divines, Greg Price, Dr. Reg Barrow, et al ow.ly/y3WQn Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV What Is Biblical Worship? - Defending Historic Reformation, Puritan & Covenanter (Biblical) Worship, First & Second Commandments by William J. Mencarow ow.ly/xWItr 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 _____ Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland (ow.ly/fPY4o) on Festival Days 1. Festival days not commanded nor warranted by scripture. General Assembly seeks total abolition not reformation of abuses only December 10, Session 17, 1638. And next in particular, concerning festival days findeth that in the explication of the first head of the first book of discipline it was thought good that the feasts of Christmas, Circumcision, Epiphany, with the feasts of the Apostles, Martyrs and Virgin Mary be utterly abolished because they are neither commanded nor warranted by Scripture and that such a observe them be punished by Civil Magistrates. Here utter abolition is craved and not reformation of abuses only and that because the observation of such feasts have no warrant from the word of God. In the General Assembly held at Edinburgh Anno 1556 the large confession of Helvetia was approved but with special exception against the same five days which are now urged upon us. It was not then the Popish observation only, with the Popish opinion of worship and merit, which was disallowed; (for so the reformed Kirk in Helvetia did not observe them) but simpliciter all observation. For this end was read a letter in Latin, sent at that time by some of our divines to certain divines in these parts to this purpose. In the Assembly holden 15 5. in August, complaint was made against the Ministers and Readers beside Aberdeen; because they assembled the people to preaching and prayers upon certain festival days: So that preaching and prayers upon festival days was judged rebukable. It was ordained likewise, that complaint be made to the Regent, upon the town of Drumfreis, for urging and convoying a Reader to the Kirk with Cabrfet and Whistle, to read Prayers, all the holy days of Christmas, upon the refusal of their own Reader. Among the articles directed by this Assembly to the Regent: It was craved that all holy days hereto-fore keeped holy, beside the Lords day, such as Yooleday, and Saints days, and such others may be abolished, and a certain penalty appointed for banqueting, playing, feasting upon these days. In the Assembly held in April, Anno 1577. It was ordained that the visitors with the advice of the Synodal Assembly, should admonish Ministers, preaching or administrating the Communion at Easter, or Christmas, or other like superstitious times, or Readers reading, to desist, under the pain of deprivation. In the ninth head of the first book of Discipline, the reason is set down against Easter Communion. Your honours are not ignorant how superstitiously the people run to that action at Pascheven; as if the time gave virtue to the Sacrament, and how the rest of the whole year, they are careless and negligent as if it appertained not to them, but at that time only. And for this reason, other times were appointed by that book, for that holy action. In the Assembly holden 1596, begun in March 1595, at which time the Covenant was renewed, superstition and idolatry breaking forth in observing festival days; setting out of bonfires, singing carols, are reckoned amongst the corruptions which were to be amended: And the pulpits did sound from time to time, against all show of observing any festival day whatsoever, except the Lords day. - CHURCH OF SCOTLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1649, pp. 37-38 (republished by Still Waters Revival Books in 1997), ow.ly/fPY4o ______ Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. - The Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 15:9) ow.ly/y3WVw The Vain Worship Of Hypocrites and How False Worship Destroys Nations Under God's 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/y3WVw That Gods word damns your ceremonies, it is evident; for the plain and straight commandment of God is, Not that thing which appears good in thy eyes, shalt thou do to the Lord thy God, but what the Lord thy God has commanded thee, that do thou: add nothing to it; diminish nothing from it. Now unless that ye are able to prove that God has commanded your ceremonies, this his former commandment will damn both you and them. With this understanding of worship, the Scottish Church cast out a multitude of the monuments of idolatry which were part of papal worship; graven images, the Mass, false sacraments, Romish liturgical ceremonies, and Roman bishops were all removed from the Church. Ecclesiastical holidays were also expelled from the Church of Scotland. - Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition to It, free at swrb/newslett/actualnls/Xmas_ch2.htm. Reformed Worship & Singing the Psalms, Free MP3s ow.ly/xWGO0 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 The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. This crimson adage is a striking truth. If ye burn any more, quaintly said one who had observed the effects of the martyrdom of Wishart on the public mind, burn them in your cellar, for the smoke infects all upon whom it is blown. - J.C. McFeeters, Sketches of the Covenanters (on the Puritan Hard Drive bit.ly/ci3g2z) Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV The General Assembly taking to their consideration the manifold abuses, profanity, and superstitions committed on Yule-day and some other superstitious days following have unanimously concluded and hereby ordains; That whatsoever person or persons hereafter shall be found guilty in keeping of the foresaid superstitious days shall be proceeded against by Kirk censures and shall make their public repentance therefore in the face of the congregation where the offence is committed. - The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, February 13, 1645., pp. 285-286. _____ John Calvin on the Regulative Principle of Worship (ow.ly/fPY4o) ...which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart. ...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, Commentary on Jeremiah 7:31 _____ John Calvin on the Regulative Principle of Worship (ow.ly/fPY4o) Against Antichrists Innovations In Worship (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos & Books) ow.ly/xWGY2 SOLA SCRIPTURA AND THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP BY BRIAN SCHWERTLEY (Free Book) ow.ly/xWGPM 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 Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far) ow.ly/FDjpV Worship offered that is contrary to Gods command is devil worship (cf. 2 Chron. 11:15). - Jim Dodson ow.ly/yi0y0.
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