“Thus Bishop Davenant, in his rules for peace, writes, ‘Those may not be cut off from communion with particular churchces who remain joined to the catholic church'” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 97).
Mr. Sandeman, Bring Me a Dream
Here is a short audio snippet from John Piper’s talk on Fuller. This is the section where he references my recent discussion with Scott Clark on Heidelblog. I think Piper is exactly right about the relevance of this discussion. As he points out, the handles are in slightly different places than they were in the …
Following Him Together
We have been considering the presence of our children together here with us at this Table. We have noted that nothing is required of them except the capacity to receive, the capacity to be shaped and taught. We have seen from Scripture that all who are bread get bread. All who are the covenant get …
By the Root
James tells us the source of quarreling and wars. He says, authoritatively, that people fight and quarrel because of their covetousness. Covetousness, in its turn, a violation of the tenth commandment, is the opposite of contentment. When you are weeding in a garden, it is not enough to simply clip the weed so that it …
The Greatest Wedding Song in the World . . . and by a Puritan
[Speaking of Edmund Spenser] “The point is that in those particular sonnets which all agree were addressed to Elizabeth Boyle, and supremely in his Epithalamion, the greatest wedding song in the world, he sings with the same full-throated ease, the same happy assurance that we hear in the contemporary and mature Hymn of Heavenly Love …
But What About the Crusades?
“The major difference is this: Crusader atrocities contradicted the New Testament whereas Muslim atrocities were in accord with the Koran” (Richardson, Secrets of the Koran, p. 158).
Unworthy of a Weed
“But in substance what I said about the dandelion is exactly what I should say about the sunflower or the sun, or the glory which (as the poet said) is brighter than the sun. The only way to enjoy even a weed is to feel unworthy even of a weed” (G.K. Chesterton as quoted in …
Evangelical Devolution
“Whatever disagreements existed among believing Christians in the era after the Second World War, evangelicals at that time were clearly doctrinal vertebrates of some description. But in recent decades, we have added more than a little money to the movement, some academic respectability, a lust for influence, and the result is the widespread existence of …
Westminster XXXI: Of Synods and Councils
1. For the better government, and further edification of the Church, there ought to be such assemblies as are commonly called Synods or Councils (Acts 15:2, 4, 6). The church has an authoritative presence beyond the local assembly. In this chapter of the Confession we come to the doctrine which separates presbyterianism from the independency …
Original Puritanism
[Elizabeth I] “released their creative power. She was a Queen, not a King, and all that was left of medieval chivalry idealized her into an incarnation of England, a militant heroine inseparable in imagination from the brave, young new nation who was saving herself from those proud old foes, the Papacy, Spain, and France, that …