ow.ly/yDyYL Trying the Spirits To Avoid Antichrist, His False Doctrine (Arminianism, Sacramentalism, Etc.), His False Worship (the Mass, Man-Made Hymns, Musical Instruments, Etc.), His Holy Days (Chirst-Mass, MichaelMass, Easter, Etc.) and Much More by Jim Dodson et al. ow.ly/yDyYL ow.ly/vWFXr Phenomenal Message About Practical Atheism and How Christians and Unbelievers Practice This Sin As Individuals, Families, Churches and States, and How Practical Atheism Leads To the Breakdown Of All Levels Of Society by Jim Dodson (Free MP3) ow.ly/ydOPk TOP 10 PURITAN AND REFORMED BLOGS puritandownloads/top-10-puritan-and-reformed-blogs/ FREE SWRB iPhone & iPad App ow.ly/dZ57X (access thosands free Reformed MP3s, Videos and PDFs!) FREE SWRB ANDROID APP ow.ly/xsDBM (access thosands free Reformed MP3s, Videos and PDFs!) Reformed Confessions, Heresy, Schism & the Faithful Remnant (The Place Of Biblical Confessions In Defending And Promoting Truth) by Greg Price ow.ly/yzAiy Westminster Larger (Q151) Catechism, Aggravations That Make Some Sins More Heinous by Jim Dodson (Free Reformed MP3) puritandownloads/westminster-larger-q151-catechism-aggravations-that-make-some-sins-more-heinous-by-jim-dodson-free-reformed-mp3/ Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Ministers (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Etc.) puritandownloads/best-free-reformed-audio-commentaries-on-revelation-and-eschatology-by-contemporary-reformed-ministers-dr-steven-dilday-w-j-mencarow-and-greg-price-free-mp3s-pdfs-videos-etc/ 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 Power is Gods hand or arm, omniscience is Gods eye, mercy is Gods delight, eternity is Gods duration, but holiness is Gods beauty! - Stephen Charnock (on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o) 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. FREE MP3: On Shunning the Unlawful Rites of the Ungodly by John Calvin ow.ly/yzAlr. Herein Calvin maintains the sinfulness of outward conformity to false worship. Dealing with a major problem of his day, Calvin shows that false worship should never be tolerated or participated in (even by your bodily presence), no matter what the cost -- whether it be persecution, exile, or death. _______ >>> CALVIN ON SEPARATION FROM FALSE WORSHIP (i.e. worship not based on the second commandment or what is now called the regulative principle of worship) AND WORSHIPPING PRIVATELY (IN YOUR HOME) Some one will therefore ask me what counsel I would like to give to a believer who thus dwells in some Egypt or Babylon where he may not worship God purely, but is forced by the common practice to accommodate himself to bad things. The first advice would be to leave [i.e. relocate--GB] if he could. . . . If someone has no way to depart, I would counsel him to consider whether it would be possible for him to abstain from all idolatry in order to preserve himself pure and spotless toward God in both body and soul. Then let him worship God in private (at home--ed.), praying him to restore his poor church to its right estate. - John Calvin, Come Out From Among Them, The Anti-Nicodemite Writings of John Calvin, Protestant Heritage Press, A Short Teatise, pp. 93-94, emphases added. Come Out From Among Them is also on the new LIBRARY OF PRESBYTERIAN HERITAGE PUBLICATIONS and PROTESTANT HERITAGE PRESS ALL ON ONE CD, including some of Calvins never before translated anti-Nicodemite writings in Come Out From Among Them, The Anti-Nicodemite Writings of John Calvin and other important and previously unreleased titles -- as compiled and/or written by Kevin Reed swrb/catalog/r.htm The John Calvin quote (above) cited in Appendix G in The Covenanted Reformation Defended by Greg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/append_g.htm ________ > ...he [Richard Cameron-ed.] went over to Holland in the year of 1678, not knowing what work the Lord had for him there; where he conversed with Mr. MWard [Robert McWard-ed.] and others of the banished Worthies. In his private conversation and exercise in families, but especially by his public sermon in the Scots Kirk at Rotterdam, he was most refreshing unto many souls. He dwelt mostly upon conversion work, from that text, Matt. 11:28: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest; which was most satisfying and agreeable to Mr. MWard and Mr. Brown [John Brown of Wamphray-ed.], and others who had been informed by the Indulged, and those of their persuasion, that he could preach nothing but babble against the Indulgence, cess paying, etc. Here he touched upon none of these things, except in prayer when lamenting over the deplorable case of Scotland by means of defection and tyranny. About this time Mr. MWard said to him, Richard the public standard has now fallen in Scotland; and, if I know anything of the mind of the Lord, ye are called to undergo your trials [ordination exam-ed.] before us, to go home, and lift the fallen standard, and display it publicly before the whole world. But before you put your hand to it, ye shall go to as many field ministers as ye can find, and give them your hearty invitation to go with you; and if they will not go, go alone, and the Lord will go with you. Accordingly he was ordained by Mr. MWard, Mr. Brown, and Roleman, a famous Dutch divine. When their hands were lifted up from his [Richard Camerons-ed.] head, Mr. MWard continued this still and cried out, Behold all ye beholders, here is the head of a faithful minister and servant of Jesus Christ, who shall lose the same for his masters interest, and it shall be set up before sun and moon, in the view of the world. (John Howie, The Scots Worthies, 1781, SWRB reprint, p. 423, on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o). On July 22, 1680, faithful Richard Cameron was martyred in Airsmoss. His head and hands cut off and taken to Edinburgh, just as Robert MWard had spoken. Before his murderers committed the barbarous act of publicly displaying his head and hands upon the Netherbow Port, they first had one further act of antichristian cruelty to enact. His father being in prison for the same cause, they carried them [Camerons head and hands-ed.] to him, to add grief unto his former sorrow, and inquired at him if he knew them. Taking his sons head and hands which were very fair - being a man of fair complexion like himself - he kissed them, and said, I know - I know them; they are my sons - my own dear sons. It is the Lord - good is the will of the Lord, who cannot wrong me nor mine, but hath made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days. After which, by order of the Council, his head was fixed upon the Netherbow Port, and his hands beside it with the fingers upward. (John Howie, The Scots Worthies, 1781, SWRB reprint, 1997, pp. 428-429, on the Puritan Hard Drive ow.ly/fPY4o). - Greg Barrow, The Covenanted Reformation Defended, Still Waters Revival Books, 1998, pp. 8-9, FREE online at: swrb/newslett/actualnls/CovRefGB.htm. _______
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