In the Vetus Ordo, it’s the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, also called Candlemas. The texts reveal that this is a feast that emphasizes the Lord. In the Novus Ordo, it is the Presentation of the … Read More →
This is a repost to correct any earlier mistakes].The following confession of faith is an agreement made by the churches of the Swiss Reformation in Zurich, representing the winglians, and Geneva, representing the Calvinists. James I. Packer has said that Cranmer and the other English Reformers of this period were not unaware of this agreement and probably had it in mind when or
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it
is written, The just shall live by faith. (Romans 1:16-17 KJV)
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. . The trouble with Arminianism is that it is illogical. It retains parts of the Biblical message, but
because of its unscriptural theory of free will rejects other parts.”
Dr.
Gordon H. Clark. What Do
Presbyterians Believe? The Westminster
Confession Yesterday and Today. (Unicoi: Trinity Foundation, 2001),
p. 174.
For
as the oe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and
when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
(Matthew 23:15 KJV)
Now the serpent was more subtil
than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (Genesis nbsp;
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And not for ours only. He added this for the sake of amplifying, in order that
the faithful might be assured that the expiation made by Christ, extends to all
who by faith embrace the gospel.
Here
a question may be raised, how have the sins of the whole world been expiated? I
pass by the dotages of the fanatics, who under this pretence extend salvation
to all the reprobate, and .
. . By 1936 the signers of the Auburn Affirmation showed that they had
captured the church by reorganizing Princeton Seminary and placing one of the
signers on its governing board, by electing one of their number Moderator of
the General Assembly [of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of
America], and, what was decisive, by excommunicating those ministers who had “The question very really concerns the attitude of God with respect to the reprobate. We may limit the controversy to this question: what must the preacher of the gospel say of God’s intention with respect to the reprobate? And these, too, may be called by different names, such as: the impenitent, the wicked, the unbelievers, etc., etc.” The answer to this question defines the difference