Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, August 24, 2009

The Sola Panel | It’s time

The Sola Panel It’s time

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There is something commmendable here, that is, a tract as a starting point for discussion. As a disable Vet, the budget is tight. A modest, but comfortable retirement. I am not going to purchase these tracts.

However, the concept is attractive and commendable.

I think, for a local situation such as mine (or perhaps your's), an easily reproducible trifold on a number of issues, might be an occasion to talk to some friends, a bidding to thought and an invitation to Christ in His Majesty.

It is of note that Bishop J.C. Ryle produced a number of these--quite effectively and usefully for our time. That godly Anglican Bishop of Liverpool established nineteen new parishes in his diocese by evangelical and confessional instruction; he also refused to build the Cathedral Church of Liverpool until the Rectors' or Pastors' remunerations were increased.

There are several things in the Church Militant, on the ground, from a Warrior's perspective, that need honest, frank, thoughtful, but kind, loving and courteous responses.

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