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After one post already on this, some might question my right to comment on this. Besides having belonged to the Free Church in the past, cu...

Which makes it an extremely sad day for anyone who prizes the principles of the Scottish Reformation including the sufficiency and authority...

even in labouring for these other things, ye must do it in a godly manner. In your love to wife, husband, children, and others relations, y...

Yet more Bible versions - the Common English Bible(New) and the NIV 2011(New) take up their position in a crowded market place with aggressi...

University students around the world are taking part in an experiment called "Unplugged" to see how we react to a total media blac...

In his 1985 book 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', Neil Postman wrote of the danger not of an Orwellian 1984 totalitarian world but of a...

Rutherford was one of the greatest Scottish theologians, a moving preacher and experimental writer. He is both exuberant and sublime in his ...

The puritans are mighty in the Scriptures and promote God's glory to the utmost in honouring above all His will precisely. They make god...

Thomas Ridgely, Body of Divinity So far as scripture plainly gives countenance to the doctrine in general, that the administration of Chri...

In desiring that Christ's kingdom may come, we pray that the gospel may be propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, and the ful...

William Swan Plumer Thy commandment is exceeding broad. — Psal. cxix. 96. In the text God's commandment means God's law, that hol...

One of Calvin's favourite Church Fathers was Bernard of Clairvaux (for more see here  and here ).  He may have had his faults, but he be...

This excellent lecture on church principles made me think a little about the first principles of the Church. There are first (foundationa...

sola Scriptura: Scripture alone; the watchword of the Reformation in its establishment of the basis for a renewed and reformed statement of ...

First, what are the objects before your mind in times of recreation? What do your thoughts most run upon? Second, what are the objects of y...

Man does not know himself or God truly. He does not know the greatness of his sin and misery. Neither does he know where he is going. He kno...

Returning to books, W.S Plumer records the following in relation to Psalm 27:4. 'When some one admired Leighton's library, he said: ...

This obituary  puts some words on an event that is very difficult to describe. Some  sermons  from "one of the great teaching ministrie...

When God had created all things, he ‘saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good’.  God looked upon man, body and soul an...

The puritan Thomas Fuller put things in a more succinct way than the previous post attempted to do: "A few books well chosen, and well ...

"The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments." 2 T...

Although over 200 years old (published in 1801) Thomas M'Crie's Lectures on Christian Baptism remain a useful classic work on this s...

John Willison writes the following in his A Fair and Impartial Testimony . 1. The servants of God, and especially ministers of the gospel...

The cost of the proposed papal visit to UK taxpayers is one thing (easily  £100m once security is taken into account ) - although by no mea...

"These are held up as superstitious who claim a hearing for God when, on other days than Sabbath, He calls men away from the vanities o...

The true visible church, where God's ordinances are set up as he hath appointed, where his word is purely preached, is the most beautifu...

The online publication of old copies of the Free Presbyterian Magazine (beginning 1906) is a great provision. The following comes from a le...

John Willison - A Treatise Concerning the Sanctification of, and Meditations on, the Lord's Day When you are up, hasten to put on your...

There are two Latin words that are essential when defining how a confession. The first is "quia" (Latin for "because") t...