holdfast

This post looks at the text that heads up this blog. Revelation 2:24-25 “I will put upon you none other burden. But that which ye have alre...

An article recently published on the Persecution of the Bible . It looks at the persecution of the Scriptures at the time of the Reformation...

Luther said that that it is prayer, meditation, and temptation that contribute to make a theologian or minister. Trials, testings and tempta...

“The law of God has its place in the book, and its use in the work of God. ‘By the law is the knowledge of sin’; and the Spirit, who convinc...

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...

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

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

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

George Gillespie shows that this distinction is not biblical. "the distinction of the clergy and laity is popish and antichristian; and...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

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

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