Forthwith, before all ye present, be it known—as of yesteryear—remove that “puerile thing” parading as a catechism" in the 1662, 1928, 1873 and the 1979 Books of Common Prayer.
Be it resolved: (1) That Un-Reformed Anglicans (especially those claiming manhood) be ordered to grow up, (2) Replace “that thing” with Reformed standards, (3) Create a lectionary and read the Standards once per year. (3) Let the reading follow the Apostles Creed or Nicene Creed. (4) Identify, quantify (times, terms, peoples) and publish failures and successes. (5) Walk humbly, in the fear of the LORD, can confess the faith courageously and fearlessly.
Make those corrections and you’ll be glad you grew up and learned a lot.
October 11, 2013
Canons of Dordt
The Fifth Head of Doctrine: The Perseverance of the Saints
Article 5: The Effects of Such Serious Sins
By such monstrous sins, however, they greatly offend God, deserve the sentence of death, grieve the Holy Spirit, suspend the exercise of faith, severely wound the conscience, and sometimes lose the awareness of grace for a time — until, after they have returned to the way by genuine repentance, God’s fatherly face again shines upon them.
Article 6: God’s Saving Intervention
For God, who is rich in mercy, according to his unchangeable purpose of election does not take his Holy Spirit from his own completely, even when they fall grievously. Neither does he let them fall down so far that they forfeit the grace of adoption and the state of justification, or commit the sin which leads to death (the sin against the Holy Spirit), and plunge themselves, entirely forsaken by him, into eternal ruin.
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