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"that which ye have already hold fast" Revelation 2:25

Monday, October 27, 2008

1 Corinthians 13 and the Person of Christ

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There is a recommendation of from Andrew Bonar’s book The Person of Christ and an extract here . This book is essential reading ( here ). I...
Saturday, October 11, 2008

The antitype: Bitter herbs and unleavened bread

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There is an excellent resource at www.puritanlibrary.com . This indexes puritan resources available on Google Books. The whole works of Ussh...

Practical Calvinism

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The Practical Implications of Calvinism A.N. Martin (Banner of Truth) Using the definition of Calvinism as 'that sight of the majesty of...
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The world's oldest known Bible?

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BBC don't often get into matters of textual criticism but here is their rather lame attempt at describing Codex Sinaiticus. There are va...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Clergy-Laity distinction

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George Gillespie shows that this distinction is not biblical. "the distinction of the clergy and laity is popish and antichristian; and...
Friday, September 26, 2008

The discipline of the Second Reformation

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Much has been written on the subject of the discipline of the Scottish Reformation. There is for instance, Hay Fleming's Discpline of th...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Drawing nearer heaven through maximal use of the Scriptures

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The following quotation from the Westminster divine William Twisse expresses very well the Puritan attitude towards the due use of necessary...
Monday, September 15, 2008

The Sighs of the Lord Jesus Christ

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The tears of Christ over Jerusalem are astonishing - but equally astonishing are his sighs as recorded in the gospel. The sighs of Jesus (Mk...
Friday, September 12, 2008

what the soul desires from divine forgiveness

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John Knox in a treatise on Psalm 6 outlines some of the essentials that the soul desires from divine forgiveness. For the text of Psalm 6 se...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness

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Archibald Alexander Hodge gave a very significant lecture upon his installation as Associate Professor of Dogmatic and Polemic Theology at ...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Israel knows what to do with lite Bible versions

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Israel’s Education Ministry has banned a lite version of the Bible as reported at Haaretz . "The Education Ministry is to ban Bible aid...
Friday, September 05, 2008

A commendation of Presbyterian Church Government

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"The Presbyterial Government; wherein is to be found such ample provision, and that according to the Word of God, for comely order agai...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

The Credit Crunch viewed from the right perspective

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Terrible is the crisis through which the commercial world is passing. Fearful are the throes of mental anxiety now visible on the countenanc...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Whose Voice? The Emerging Church rewrite the Bible

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A(nother) new version has been produced and is being promoted. The Voice New Testament . One doesn't need to comment much on this. It sp...
Monday, August 18, 2008

10 Marks of Grace

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The following are some marks of grace by which we can examine ourselves whether we are in the faith and Christ is in us. More could be added...

Christ the river by which His people are planted

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The Works of Jonathan Edwards (many never published before from manuscript) are now online . The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online will digit...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Guarding against Wavering

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It is good divinity to maintain that scepticism, fluctuation and wavering, concerning those things which God hath revealed to be believed or...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Reasons for not forsaking the assembling

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The account is given of William Mackay, Diarachdcory near Tongue, Sutherland an eminently godly man of the nineteenth-century when Sutherlan...
Saturday, August 02, 2008

Sedgwick on Preaching « James Durham Thesis

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This is an excellent quotation from one of the Westminster Divines on true preaching and a true sermon. The true focus is the person and wo...
Friday, July 18, 2008

John Kennedy's Leper Isle

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Another blog has published the whole of John Kennedy, Dingwall's Leper Isle. This is rather like John Bunyan's The Holy War or The P...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Spiritual Decay

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"It is fit,that professors of all sorts should be reminded of these things; for we may see not a few of them under visible decays, with...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The external and internal aspects of the Covenant of Grace

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Obadiah Sedgewick (one of the Westminster divines) shows how there is an internal (absolute) and external (conditional) side to the Covenant...
Friday, July 11, 2008

The Fellowship Meeting

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Another blog covers the fellowship meeting with helpful links - the meeting is a feature of Highland Communion seasons. Here is a good examp...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The offence of blasphemy

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On 8 May 2008, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Are evangelicals becoming liberal?

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A recent Time Magazine Article reports on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life which last year surveyed 35,000 Americans, and found th...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Evangelical fears and compromises

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Various commentators from within evangelicalism are coming to the conclusion that has been obvious for a rather long time, that evangelicali...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Jacob as a type of Christ

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Recently someone mentioned Jacob as a type of Christ. We know that there is much in Jacob that was sinful and certainly could never be typic...
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