War Against The Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to John Calvin (Separation from Idolatry) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=19130 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 How Reformed Churches Imitate Antichrist (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books) ow.ly/CB7Ga If it be asked, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing 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, viz., a knowledge first, of the right way to worship God; and secondly of the source from which salvation is to be sought. When these are kept out of view, though we may glory in the name of Christians, our profession is empty and vain. - War Against the Idols, p. 198, citing from John Calvins On the Necessity of Reforming the Church, FREE at swrb.ab.ca/newslett/actualNLs/NRC_ch00.htm or on the Puritan Hard Drive (ow.ly/fPY4o). 57 FREE SWRB MP3s: Puritan Worship Series (at SermonAudio) ow.ly/CB7OD Apostolic Presbyterianism by William Cunningham and Dr. Reg Barrow swrb/newslett/actualNLs/apopresby.htm ow.ly/CB7Sp 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) ow.ly/CB7Sp 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 ow.ly/CB7HD 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) ow.ly/CB7HD 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 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 The principle that the church hath power to institute any thing or ceremony belonging to the worship of God, either as to matter or manner, beyond the observance of such circumstances as necessarily attend such ordinances as Christ Himself hath instituted, lies at the bottom of all the horrible superstition and idolatry, of all the confusion, blood, persecution, and wars, that have for so long a season spread themselves over the face of the Christian world. - John Owen, quoted in Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church by John Girardeau (covenanter.org/Girardeau/Instrumental/instrumentalmusic.htm), on the Puritan Hard Drive (ow.ly/fPY4o). 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. 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But now, when the clear light of the gospel has dissipated the shadows of the law and taught us that God is to be served in a simpler form, it would be to act a foolish and mistaken part to imitate that which the prophet enjoined only upon those of his own time.2 He further observes: We are to remember that the worship of God was never understood to consist in such outward services, which were only necessary to help forward a people as yet weak and rude in knowledge in the spiritual worship of God. A difference is to be observed in this respect between his people under the Old and under the New Testament; for now that Christ has appeared, and the church has reached full age, it were only to bury the light of the gospel should we introduce the shadows of a departed dispensation. From this it appears that the Papists, as I shall have occasion to show elsewhere, in employing instrumental music cannot be said so much to imitate the practice of Gods ancient people as to ape it in a senseless and absurd manner, exhibiting a silly delight in that worship of the Old Testament which was figurative and terminated with the gospel.3 ENDNOTES: 1. On Ps. lxxi. 22. 2. On Ps. lxxxi. 3. 3. On Ps. xcii. 1. FROM: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH By John L. Girardeau (Still Waters Revival Books, [1888] 2000), pp. 63, 64, on the Puritan Hard Drive at PuritanDownloads/swrb-puritan-hard-drive.html. _________ FREE AUDIO BOOK: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH by John Lafayette Girardeau (1825-1898) sermonaudio/go/148354 FREE ONLINE BOOK: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH by John Lafayette Girardeau (1825-1898) covenanter.org/Girardeau/Instrumental/instrumentalmusic.htm _____ Dr. Girardeau has defended the old usage of our church with a moral courage, loyalty to truth, clearness of reasoning and wealth of learning which should make every true Presbyterian proud of him, whether he adopts his conclusions or not. The framework of his argument is this: it begins with that vital truth which no Presbyterian can discard without a square desertion of our principles. The man who contests this first premise had better set out at once for Rome: God is to be worshipped only in the ways appointed in His Word. Every act of public cultus not positively enjoined by Him is thereby forbidden. Christ and His apostles ordained the musical worship of the New Dispensation without any sort of musical instrument, enjoining only the singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Hence such instruments are excluded from Christian worship. Such has been the creed of all churches, and in all ages, except for the Popish communion after it had reached the nadir of its corruption at the end of the thirteenth century, and of its prelatic imitators. - R.L. Dabneys Review of Girardeaus Instrumental Music in Public Worship (1889) Excerpted from The Presbyterian Quarterly (July, 1889, no. 9). puritandownloads/dabneys-review-of-girardeaus-instrumental-music-in-public-worship-1889-by-robert-lewis-dabney/ _____ War Against The Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to John Calvin (Separation from Idolatry) sermonaudio/new_details3.asp?ID=19130
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