True and thorough reformation comes by way of covenanting with God.<br><br>Consider the example of godly Josiah:<br><br>"And the king went up into the house of...
Josiah's covenanted reformation continued:<br><br>"Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel...
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of...
SL&C continued:<br><br>"I. That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of GOD, endeavor, in our several places and callings, the ...
SL&C continued:<br><br>"VI. We shall also, according to our places and callings, in this common cause of religion, liberty, and peace of the kingdoms, assist...
DataRat, <br><br>Thanks for joining the club, and for your question. Yes, I do believe that God provided us with the only hymnal we are to use in worship of...
DataRat, <br><br>Thanks for joining the club, and for your question. Yes, I do believe that God provided us with the only hymnal we are to use in worship of...
By request, this is being transferred over from biblehermeneutics...<br><br>gmw said,<br>"2) The ordainance of national covenanting does indeed have biblical...
Kind of continued...<br><br>(I'm feeling particularly militant today... please excuse me...)<br><br>P.S. God *is* still a God of covenants; He's still a God...
Covenantal confusion abounds.<br><br>And we know why this is.<br><br>In this short post, I'm not going to present an argument buttressed with proofs at every...
David, I apologize, but I accidently (honestly!) deleted your post to DR about Psalmody, I was attempting to reply to it, and hit delete by accident. Feel free...
"Your line above is an ingenious attempt to force the burden of proof onto me."<br><br>Of course it is. It is up to you to show the discontinuity from the OT...
"That's right folks; in this era, God isn't in covenant with unbelievers."<br><br>Was not God in covenant with Judas? With Simon Magus? Did they not receive...
David wrote, "For various reasons, the Reformers just couldn't bring themselves to give up paedobaptism; for one thing,"<br><br>For one thing, they couldn't...
*<br><br>By popular demand: El Raton de los Datos, and the<br>Institute for Calvinistic Hegemony, have released<br>REFORMED ICON PAK 2 !<br><br>This free set...
*<br><br>Transplanting a discussion from the Hermeneutics<br>forum:<br><br><br>"from the New Testament that there is absolutely<br>*no* expectation that the...
*<br><br>From the Hermeneutics forum:<br><br><br><br>"I'm not arguing against what you 'might' hold,<br>but rather what you *should* hold if you used ...
*<br><br>From the Hermeneutics forum:<br><br><br><br>"A little earlier you defined Reconstructionists<br>as those who believe it is a Christian duty ...
*<br><br>"The Westminster Standards hold forth this position<br>as well"<br><br><br>Again, we interpret the WCF differently:<br><br>"SINGING OF PSALMS ...
*<br><br>"2) Israel was a theocracy, ruled directly by God<br>via His spokespeople"<br><br><br><br>Israel was only relatively briefly a true<br>theocracy. MOST...
*<br><br>"in this era, God isn't in covenant with<br>unbelievers"<br><br><br><br>The Calvinist Rodent wholeheartedly agrees !<br><br>Any real "Christian"...
"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and ...
Hi Chris, <br><br>Welcome, and thanks for coming to the club.<br><br>You asked, "what are the hymns and spiritual songs referred to here?"<br><br>To me, that's...
*<br><br>"I know that some reputable commentators have<br>asserted that there are occassional 'hymn<br>fragments' in the Epistles, but what evidence do<br>they...
DataRat,<br><br>You wrote, " 'SINGING OF PSALMS with grace in the heart... are all parts of ordinary religious worship' ...is inclusive, NOT exclusive. This ...
*<br><br>"psalms and hymns and spiritual songs"<br><br><br><br>If these are all five terms for the same thing<br>(Psalmody), the use of repetition can only be ...
*<br><br>"or any other way not prescribed in the holy<br>Scripture"<br><br><br>Here you quote the Westminister on what is<br>generally known as the Regulative...
DataRat,<br><br>1) As I've pointed out before, all three of these words appear in the titles to the Psalms in the Septuagint. In the Septuagint, Psalm 76 ...
