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Scotland has had an influence in spiritual terms far beyond its size. The Scottish Church was the fairest daughter of the Reformation. The n...

The previous post re:Israel and the Church should be understood from the right perspective and we trust that this was reasonably clear. Ther...

What is the Church? To ask this question is almost to ask a similar question concerning God's kingship and kingdom. God is king over all...

Erastianism is the idea that there is no distinction between the church and state in a Christian state but that the head of the state is the...

Time magazine's photo essay on "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals"  is distinguished by people that really aren't evan...

Love and hatred are not faults in themselves, it is what you hate or love that matters, so aince let the object of these affections be right...

What makes a contemporary English Bible? It is widely presumed that this is an easy and straightforward question to answer: a contemporary v...

Samuel Rutherford gives these reasons in his A Sermon Preached before the Honourable House of Commons . if permitting sin had not been, 1) T...

Estimation produceth love, even the love of Christ; and love is a great favourite, and is much at court, and dwelleth constantly with the ki...

Commonly, the phrase "where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst" (Matt. l8:20) is applied to small gathe...

The Dutch theologian Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) is best known for his four-volume work, The Christian's Reasonable Service (Reformat...

The best summary of Sandy Gair's life is in the article by Rev. Douglas Somerset on the Separatists here The following account is told o...

Household baptism is a New Testament term and it may seem strange to associate it with the Old Testament. There are indeed five household (o...

This poem by John Flavel written in 1691 was recorded by William Sinclair of Wick in his diary which is online here . William Sinclair was (...

ALL that men have to know, may be comprised under these two heads,—What their end is; and What is the right, way to attain to that end. And ...

J.H. Thornwell spoke of his personal debt to the Westminster Standards (Confession and Catechisms): "I bless God, for that glorious sum...

1. Our frailty and entire dependence as creatures on the self-existent and infinitely glorious Jehovah. 2. Our awful inconceivable guilt as ...

thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith Revelation 2:12,13. It is commended for holding fast His name, that is His truth, ca...

9 days into 2009 how about some real reading challenges? Read the New Testament right through in Greek here - although you may want to lea...