ow.ly/y3WVw The Vain Worship Of Hypocrites and How False Worship Destroys Nations Under Gods Wrath By John Calvin, Westminster Divines, Greg Price, John Knox, Jim Dodson, Kevin Reed, Dr. Steven Dilday, Thomas Watson and Others (Free MP3s) ow.ly/y3WVw 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 on the Puritan Hard Drive bit.ly/ci3g2z The Regulative Principle of Worship declares that God alone is sovereign in worship. - Greg Price swrb/newslett/actualnls/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm For anyone interested in recovering our Presbyterian and Reformed past, the Puritan Hard Drive a must. - Dr. Steven Dilday bit.ly/ci3g2z (Pastor, Author, President of The Matthew Poole Project, Founder or Liberty & Grace Seminary ow.ly/eCOtx, etc.) Presbyterian Worship: Old and New by Kevin Reed swrb/newslett/actualnls/FrameWor.htm A Review and Commentary upon Worship in Spirit and Truth, a book by John Frame. Kevin Reed shows how John 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 idolatrous ideas now being touted by John Frame. swrb/newslett/actualnls/FrameWor.htm If you want to understand Reformed theology the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. - Pastor Greg Price (Author, Theologian, Covenanter) ow.ly/gAu3F. FULL REVIEW: PASTOR GREG L. PRICE RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE ow.ly/gAtQr 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, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, Kevin Reed, John Flavel, Thomas Watson, William Perkins and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.) puritandownloads/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-westminster-divines-dr-ste/ How Reformed Churches Imitate Antichrist (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books) puritandownloads/how-reformed-churches-imitate-antichrist-free-reformed-mp3s-videos-and-books/ The section related to How Reformed Churches Imitate Antichrist begins about 60% of the way into this message, and it is excellent, as well as very pertinent to our day and the backslidden state of most Reformed churches, so well worth the wait. 1,000s of FREE PURITAN BOOKS, MP3s & VIDEOS bit.ly/hneE0Q The Puritan Hard Drive is the must have digital learning device for Puritan and Reformed studies. Nothing like it has ever been available before! - Pastor W.J. Mencarow bit.ly/ci3g2z FREE SWRB MP3: Regulative Principle of Worship in the New Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series) sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=380119184 If it be inquired, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing existence amongst us, and maintains its truth, it will be found that the following two not only occupy the principal place, but comprehend under them all the other parts, and consequently the whole substance of Christianity: this is, a knowledge, first, of the mode in which God is duly worshipped; and,secondly, of the source from which salvation is to be obtained. When these are kept out of view, though we may glory in the name Christians, our profession is empty and vain. After these come the sacraments and the government of the church. - John Calvin, The Necessity of Reforming the Church (swrb/newslett/actualNLs/NRC_ch00.htm), Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1544, reprinted 1995, p. 15, free online at swrb/newslett/actualnls/NRC_ch00.htm. FREE SWRB iPhone & iPad App ow.ly/dZ57X FREE SWRB ANDROID APP ow.ly/xsDBM The Puritan Hard Drive is a magnificent tool for genuine research. - Silversides ow.ly/fPY4o Puritan Hard Drive Interest Free Deferred Monthly Payment Option (Starts as low as $50/month!) ow.ly/ceDC1. ow.ly/91Clm Covenanter Terms of Communion (19 FREE MP3s) by Greg Price. The Corruption of Worship, and the Rise of Antichrist In History, Prophesied In Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, George Gillespie, et al. (Free Reformation MP3s & Much More) puritandownloads/the-corruption-of-worship-and-the-rise-of-antichrist-in-history-prophesied-in-revelation-by-dr-steven-dilday-john-calvin-w-j-mencarow-john-owen-george-gillespie-et-al-free-reformation-mp3s-much-more/ FREE SWRB MP3: Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series) sermonaudio/sermoninfo.asp?SID=380103046 All things considered, certainly it is no small condemnation of us to behold what an ardent zeal the holy martyrs had in the past, especially in comparison with the nonchalance we demonstrate. For as soon as a poor man of that time got so much as a little taste of the true knowledge of God, he did not hesitate to expose himself to the danger involved in confessing his faith. He would have preferred to be burned alive than to go so far as to commit some outward act of idolatry. - John Calvin puritandownloads/sola-scriptura-and-the-regulative-principle-of-worship-by-brian-schwertley-free-book/ SOLA SCRIPTURA AND THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP BY BRIAN SCHWERTLEY (Free Book) puritandownloads/sola-scriptura-and-the-regulative-principle-of-worship-by-brian-schwertley/ If you search through the whole Bible, there is not one sin that God has more followed with plagues than idolatry. The Jews have a saying, that in every evil that befalls them, there is an ounce of the golden calf in it. - Thomas Watson Biblical Worship by Kevin Reed (Free Book) swrb/newslett/actualnls/BibW_ch0.htm. Written with a clear view of upholding the biblical tradition of Reformation worship -- with the life and death struggle that was a backdrop to the Reformers war against the idols clearly in mind.Touches on a number of controversial issues that have arisen as human innovations in worship have become commonplace in contemporary church life -- even among those that still fancy being known as Reformed. swrb/newslett/actualnls/BibW_ch0.htm 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 as 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. - The Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, December 10, Session 17, 1638, pp. 37-38, on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o. _____ A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of Scotland (1637, reprinted from the 1660 edition) by George Gillespie puritandownloads/a-dispute-against-the-english-popish-ceremonies-obtruded-on-the-church-of-scotland-1637-reprinted-from-the-1660-edition-by-george-gillespie/ George Gillespie was one of the Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly, the youngest member there, and undoubtedly one of the most influential. William Hetherington observes The effect produced by this singularly able work may be conjectured from the fact that within a few months of its publication, a proclamation was issued by the Privy Council, at the instigation of the Bishops, commanding that all copies of the book that could be found be called in and burned by the hangman. Such was the only answer that all the learned Scottish Prelates could give to a treatise written by a youth who was only in his twenty-fifth year when it appeared (Memoir, from the Works of George Gillespie, p. xviii.). James Bannerman writes, This was Gillespies first work, and it may be truly said to have settled the controversy which called it forth, so far as argument was concerned. No answer to it was ever attempted by the Prelatic party; and no answer was possible. It displays singular acuteness, learning, and force of reasoning; and the thoroughness of the discussion is as remarkable as the power with which it is conducted (The Church of Christ, vol. 2., p. 435). Possibly the best extra-biblical book ever written on biblical worship, an extensive and thorough masterpiece that leaves no stone unturned. For the advanced study of just about everything related to biblical worship. puritandownloads/a-dispute-against-the-english-popish-ceremonies-obtruded-on-the-church-of-scotland-1637-reprinted-from-the-1660-edition-by-george-gillespie/ _____ Sadly, most Protestant churches (and even churches Reformed in their soteriology) are often closer to Rome than the Reformation in their public worship, practicing such Roman Catholic innovations in public worship as signing man-made hymns (rather than the using the hymn book God has provided in Scripture, and singing Psalms), using musical instruments (a practice abrogated, in public worship, with the rest of the ceremonial law with the coming of Christ), and keeping Popish holy days like Christmas and Easter (which violates the second and fourth commandments). bit.ly/ci3g2z 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 (in 1883 - ed.), 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) ow.ly/Cxfjk Introductory Essay to John Knoxs True and False Worship by Kevin Reed swrb/newslett/actualnls/TFWIntro.htm Kevin Reed writes that [t]he Protestant Reformation was a conflict over many critical issues. Of all the issues contested between Romanists and Reformers, no issue was more crucial than the question of true worship. John Knox displayed a preeminent concern for worship. Throughout his ministry, the Reformer proclaimed the scriptural law of worship: all forms of worship [and all religious ceremonies] must possess clear scriptural warrant, if they are to be admitted as valid means of worship. This concept has subsequently been called the regulative principle of worship, because it regulates our approach to God in worship. This introductory essay shows how [t]he example of Knox stands as a sharp rebuke to Christians in the present day. It illustrates the need to think about our worship. Worship: The Regulative Principle of Worship in History by Dr. Reg Barrow (Short Article) swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm Discusses the very foundation of all faithful public worship. Dovetails splendidly with John Calvins Necessity of Reforming the Church . Cites numerous examples from Reformation history (Calvin, Knox, Owen, the Westminster Divines, etc.) exhibiting the Reformation consensus regarding the basis of biblical faithfulness in this area. A good short, easy-reading introduction to this topic. swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm Psalm Singing in Scripture & History by Dr. Reg Barrow (Short Article) swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm Discusses Reformed worship-song in the context of the regulative principle of worship (Sola Scriptura in Worship). Defends exclusive Psalmody from Scripture and the writings and testimony of the most prominent Reformers. swrb/newslett/actualnls/CRTPWors.htm 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. (Free Reformed MP3s) puritandownloads/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-w-j-mencarow-jonathan-e/ A Discourse Concerning Liturgies and Their Imposition (and the Regulative Principle of Worship) by John Owen puritandownloads/a-discourse-concerning-liturgies-and-their-imposition-and-the-regulative-principle-of-worship-by-john-owen/ Love this (Puritan Hard Drive - ed.), it is mind blowing! - Chris Isom (FL, USA) bit.ly/ci3g2z.
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