ow.ly/Bcw28 Calvin, Close Communion and the Coming Reformation (a book review of Alexander and Rufus... by John Anderson [1862]) by Dr. Reg Barrow (Shows how John Calvin practiced close communion and how the biblical view of this ordinance is intended to purify the individual, church and state. Refutes the Popish and paedocommunion heresies (regarding this sacrament), as well as all views of open communion. This is Reformation History Notes number two.) swrb/newslett/actualnls/CalvinCC.htm The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543) by John Calvin (FREE ONLINE BOOK) swrb/newslett/actualNLs/NRC_ch00.htm JOHN CALVIN ON SEPARATION FROM FALSE WORSHIP (i.e., non REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE WORSHIP) and WORSHIPPING PRIVATELY IN YOUR HOME sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=14661 John Calvin, during the First Reformation, showed that he supported the concept of Covenanted Reformation by requiring all the residents of Geneva to take an oath in support of the Reformation. The Register of the Council of 24 of Geneva notes as follows: 12 November 1537. It was reported that yesterday the people who had not yet made their oath to the reformation were asked to do so, street by street; whilst many came, many others did not do so. No one came from the German quarter. It was decided that they should be commanded to leave the city if they did not wish to swear to the reformation (Scribner, Bob and Pamela Johnston. 1993. The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland, Cambridge University Press, p. 138,). If you want to understand Reformed theology (i.e., the whole counsel of God) the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. ... There is no other resource, outside Scripture itself, where you can find so much of Gods truth as in the Puritan Hard Drive. ... now that I have the Puritan Hard Drive, I am able to use my time much more efficiently in finding that particular document I need by quickly searching for it and finding it in a matter of seconds. ... I am able to simply cut and paste from the Puritan Hard Drive to my own document with ease. - Pastor Greg Price (Covenanter Author and Theologian) ow.ly/fPY4o Reformed Confessions, Heresy, Schism & the Faithful Remnant sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=7300125251 There is no other way to get such easy, convenient and inexpensive access to so many great works from the best Reformation and Puritan preachers and teachers, past and present -- and the study software on the Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness! Nothing like the Puritan Hard Drive has ever been available before! The Puritan Hard Drive is the must have digital learning device for Puritan and Reformed studies. - Pastor W.J. Mencarow (Reformation Church, Boerne, Texas - San Antonio area), Author, Editor of The Paper Source Journal, and has been interviewed on numerous radio and TV programs including Good Morning America, most networks and in major U.S. newspapers and magazines, etc. ow.ly/fPY4o ow.ly/BcvNp What Are Terms of Communion? What is Close Communion? What is Occasional Hearing? What Is Biblical Separation? By Pastor Greg Price and Dr. Michael Wagner (Free Covenanter MP3s) ow.ly/BcvNp Close Communion, the Lords Supper, Refuting Paedocommunion, etc. swrb/newslett/FREEBOOK/closecom.htm The Covenanted Reformation Defended Against Contemporary Schismatics by Greg Barrow (Greg Price, Dr. Reg Barrow and Larry Birger) Contains what may be the best information gathered into one book (outside of the Bible) on the topic of the Lords Supper and the Reformation practice of close communion! References many hard-to-find Reformation source documents while defending the original intent of the Westminster standards and the practice of the best churches of the second Reformation. On close communion in particular see Misrepresentation 4 at reformedpresbytery.org/books/covrefdf/covrefdf.htm#mis4. Against Backsliding Modern Denominations, Nations & Individuals (Separation) swrb/newslett/FREEBOOK/backslid.htm As a self-confessed computer bozo (if not leaning somewhat towards computer-phobic at times) I am delighted to report that the technical, usability, etc., side of the Puritan Hard Drive has presented no challenges to me whatsoever! It is as simple as ABC! On its contents front, it surely is unsurpassed in wholesome doctrine. ... you will be hard pressed to read more uplifting articles on the Christian life, since post-Apostolic days. ... nowhere can you find, in one concentrated place, the overflowing unction of the Holy Spirit in the rivers and tributaries that comprise the Puritan Hard Drives simple yet expansive creation. Well done SWRB! - Terence Ellard (Christian Evangelist, England) ow.ly/fPY4o Terms of Ministerial and Christian Communion in the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and In Our Day, In the Puritan Reformed Church; With Explanatory Dialogue (Including The Biblical and Logical Necessity of Uninspired Creeds) swrb/newslett/actualnls/TermsMin.htm The Six Points of the Terms of Ministerial and Christian Communion in the Reformed Presbyterian Church by the Reformed Presbytery (The old paths illuminated with the powerful Covenanter spotlight.) swrb/newslett/actualnls/6points.htm In this age of boasted charity, but really detestable neutrality and indifferency, it is an irksome and painful task, but a duty, thus to bear testimony against churches, in which are to be found, no doubt, many precious sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. But personal piety never was, nor possibly can be, the condition of fellowship in the visible church. To think so, and say so, is one of the most popular delusions of the present day. It puts the supposed pious man, speaking his experience, in the place of God, speaking his sovereign will in the Bible. This is the height of impiety. - Reformed Presbytery, Act, Declaration, and Testimony for the Whole of Our Covenanted Reformation, p. 175, on the Puritan Hard Drive at ow.ly/fPY4o. War Against The Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to John Calvin (Separation from Idolatry) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=19130 Reformation Required Without Delay by John Calvin swrb/newslett/actualNLs/NRC_ch04.htm Apostolic Presbyterianism by William Cunningham and Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/apopresby.htm Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them (Rom. 16:17, KJV). Worship: The Regulative Principle of Worship in History by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm Psalm Singing in Scripture & History by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm Martin Luther and Psalm Singing by David Steele Did Luther and the Reformation Lutherans practice exclusive Psalmody? What about Luthers hymns? Where and when were they used? ANSWERS HERE. swrb/newslett/actualNLs/lutherps.htm Exclusive Psalmody (FREE Online Scottish Metrical Psalter, With Notes By John Brown Of Haddington, Here Too!) swrb/newslett/FREEBOOK/RefWorsh.htm Because the Churches take not care, that Ministers be savoury and gracious; from Steermen all Apostasie and rottenness begin. O if the Lord would arise and purge his House in Scotland! As for Church-members, they ought to be holy; and though all baptized be actu primo members, yet such as remain habitually ignorant after admonition, are to be cast out, and though they be not cast out certainly, as paralytick or rottened members cannot discharge the functions of life: So those that are scandalous, ignorant, malignant, unsound in faith, lose their rights of Suffrages in election of Officers, and are to be debarred from the Seals. Nor can we defend our sinful practise in this: it were our wisdom to repent of our taking in the Malignant party, who shed the blood of the people of God, and obstructed the work of God, into places of Trust in the Church State, and the Army, contrary to our Covenants, they continuing still Enemies - Samuel Rutherford, Survey of the Survey, p. 373, on the Puritan Hard Drive at ow.ly/fPY4o. What Is A Moral Person? How God Views the Church and the Nations by David Scott, John Cunningham, and George Smeaton swrb/newslett/actualNLs/moral.htm Presbyterian Worship: Old and New by Kevin Reed swrb/newslett/actualnls/FrameWor.htm SUMMARY: A Review and Commentary upon Worship in Spirit and Truth, a book by John Frame. Reed shows how Frame has abandoned the Reformation, both scripturally and confessionally, in regard to worship. He also gives an excellent summary of historic Reformed views and then contrasts them with the novel ideas now being touted by Frame. swrb/newslett/actualnls/FrameWor.htm Would John Calvin Excommunicate John Frame and James Jordan? by Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/frameexc.htm There has not been a more valuable extra-biblical resource and tool than the Puritan Hard Drive. It holds some of the most priceless Reformed works of God-centered and Christ-glorifying truth that were ever penned. Most students, ministers and scholars of the Bible would never personally acquire even half the literal number of books on the Puritan Hard Drive, much less the extreme caliber of its contents. In Gods providence modern day Christians have been chosen to be the recipients of both a theological and practical blessing. May we not squander it. - Dr. Matthew McMahon, Pastor, Author, Theologian, Seminary Professor, A Puritans Mind Web Site, etc. - Dr. McMahon, A Puritans Mind (Pastor, Author, Seminary Professor, etc.) ow.ly/fPY4o As Jim Dodson notes, in his Open Letter to an RPCNA Elder, one should not confuse schism with separation. They are not the same thing. John Brown, of Haddington, states, that schism in scripture, chiefly, if not solely, represents alienation of affection, and disagreement among those who continue the same joint attendance on the ordinances of the gospel, 1 Cor. 12:25; 1:10. Augustine said, It is not a different faith makes schismatics, but a broken society of communion. In no place, in the Bible, does the word schism appear to signify visible separation. Error in doctrine, corruption in worship and tyranny in discipline, render separation unavoidable, to escape the sin of schism. Your conception of what constitutes schism is that of Rome. If schism is separation; and There is no precedent for schism [re: separation] in the Bible; then, on what basis did Protestants leave Rome? Every Reformer owned that Rome is, in some sense, a Church of Christ. After all, that man of sin is seated in the temple of God, as they taught. - Cited in Dr. Reg Barrows John Calvin, Close Communion, Covenanting and the Coming Reformation (Covenanted Reformation) at swrb/newslett/actualNLs/calvincc.htm. Dodsons An Open Letter Rebuking A Teaching Elder In The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) is at puritandownloads/an-open-letter-rebuking-a-teaching-elder-in-the-reformed-presbyterian-church-of-north-america-rpcna-by-jim-dodson-jim-dodson-versus-the-rpcna-jim-dodsons-follow-up-letter-reformation-principles-re-exhibited-and-other-works/ An Open Letter Rebuking A Teaching Elder In The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) By Jim Dodson, Jim Dodson Versus The RPCNA (Jim Dodsons Follow-Up Letter), Reformation Principles Re-Exhibited (The Backsliding Of The RPCNA Documented) By Greg Barrow, The Covenanted Reformation Defended Against Contemporary Schismatics By Greg Barrow, and Other Covenanter and Reformed MP3s, Books and Videos By Samuel Rutherford, Greg Price, George Gillespie, David Steele, Dr. Reg Barrow and Others (Free Online Reformed Presbyterian Books, Covenanter Articles and Presbyterian MP3s) puritandownloads/an-open-letter-rebuking-a-teaching-elder-in-the-reformed-presbyterian-church-of-north-america-rpcna-by-jim-dodson-jim-dodson-versus-the-rpcna-jim-dodsons-follow-up-letter-reformation-principles-re-exhibited-and-other-works/ Jim Dodson Versus the RPCNA (Follow-Up To the Letter Above) swrb/newslett/actualNLs/dodvsrpcna.htm Reformation Principles Re-Exhibited: An Historical Witness and Brotherly Entreaty - Summary and Analysis of Changes within Terms of Communion of the Reformed Presbyterian Churches of Scotland and America from 1761 to the Present, and a Particular Analysis and Testimony Against the Present Day RPCNA by Greg Barrow and Larry Birger, Jr. (Free Online Book) reformedpresbytery.org/books/rpcna/rpcna.htm SABBATH, OR SUNDAY by David Steele (1882) covenanter.org/Steele/sabbath.htm The Puritan Hard Drive is the best resource money can buy. It is easy, simple to use and the search feature cut down my time searching web pages that had absolutely nothing to do with the query I typed into the search engine. Not to mention a lot of the material is not accessible on the Internet. To have so many books and articles at my fingers-tips is both truly amazing and a blessing. If you love the Puritans and Reformed theology, then the Puritan Hard Drive is a resource that you cant live without. - Pastor Jerry Johnson, President of Nicene Council, Seminary Professor, Author, Video Producer, etc. ow.ly/fPY4o IF YOU NEGLECT DAILY FAMILY WORSHIP YOUR ELDERS SHOULD SUSPEND AND DEBAR YOU FROM THE LORDS SUPPER sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=23104 ow.ly/Bcw28 Calvin, Close Communion and the Coming Reformation (a book review of Alexander and Rufus... by John Anderson [1862]) by Dr. Reg Barrow (Shows how John Calvin practiced close communion and how the biblical view of this ordinance is intended to purify the individual, church and state. Refutes the Popish and paedocommunion heresies (regarding this sacrament), as well as all views of open communion. This is Reformation History Notes number two.) swrb/newslett/actualnls/CalvinCC.htm
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