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, March 3, 2014

Westminster Confession 6.6 & Lent

March 3, 2014. A personal project in Lent 2014: will one see a biblical-theological exposition of original and actual sins (e.g. Genesis forwards to Revelation), the T of TULIP, and an overall sense of the history of the question? Or, will the several Sundays--in fact--rise little higher than an individualistic pietism? We'll see. We'll be watching several centers of advertisement. This Confession has a foundational place in this season of reflection. Notes will be taken.

Westminster Confession of Faith
Chapter 6: Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and the Punishment thereof

6: Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto,[135] does in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner,[136] whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God,[137] and curse of the law,[138] and so made subject to death,[139] with all miseries spiritual,[140] temporal,[141] and eternal.[142]

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