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"The great principle that only what is commanded has a place in the worship of God was one of the cornerstones of the Reformation; without it the great battle of Protestantism against Romanism could never have been fought out and won."
- It was said that the Rev. John Newton was a great lover of cats. Once he possessed a mother cat and a kitten. In the kindness of his heart, and to prevent the too frequent interruption of his studies by waiting on the cats, he had two holes cut in the door of his house, one for the old cat, and a smaller one for the kitten. It had not occurred to the good man that the hole that would admit the larger cat would admit also the kitten, indeed would admit not only two cats but any number of cats. When you have made an opening in the door of God’s house large enough to admit songs of praise which God has not authorized, that same hole will admit the worship of the Virgin Mary, prayers to St. Peter, confession to the priest, holy water, kissing the pope’s toe, and the whole brood of pollutions and monstrosities from which the Church escaped in the tremendous revolution and reformation of the sixteenth century. The great principle that only what is commanded has a place in the worship of God was one of the cornerstones of the Reformation; without it the great battle of Protestantism against Romanism could never have been fought out and won. In asserting this doctrine we are simply calling the Church back to one of the great attainments of the Reformation, when purity of worship and the inspired songs of God’s Word had the right of way in all the Reformed Churches. - William H. Vincent, "The Scriptural Law of Worship", The Psalms in Worship, edited by John McNaugher on the Puritan Hard Drive.
HYMNS, THE REFORMATION, PURITAN WORSHIP, THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY & EXCLUSIVE PSALMODY (Free MP3s)
Conclusively proves that the Westminster Standards teach only exclusive Psalmody regarding the use of worship songs.
Reformed Worship & Singing the Psalms, Featuring Dr. Steven Dilday's Stellar Series Of 8 Free MP3, "The History of the Service of Song, Real Reformation, Faithful Worship, and Praising The Lord Jesus Christ Through Songs", and Many More Free Resources on Exclusive Psalmody, and Puritan and Reformed Worship (Free Puritan and Reformed Books, MP3s and Videos)
SOME OF THE BEST FREE TEACHING YOU WILL EVER HEAR ON BIBLICAL (REFORMATION) WORSHIP: The Westminster Larger (Q&A 107-110) and Shorter (Q&A 49-52) Catechisms On the Second Commandment (The Sovereignty Of God Over Worship, Calvinism In Worship, The Scriptural Law Of Worship, Reformed Worship, the Regulative Principle of Worship, Etc.), by Pastor Jim Dodson (4 Free SWRB MP3s)
These four messages make up some of the best teaching you will ever hear on the second commandment, Puritan and Reformed worship, and the regulative principle of worship.
- John Calvin: "God here cuts off from men every occasion for making evasions, since he condemns by this one phrase, "I have not commanded them," whatever the Jews devised. There is then no other argument needed to condemn superstitions, than that they are not commanded by God: for when men allow themselves to worship God according to their own fancies, and attend not to his commands, they pervert true religion. And if this principle was adopted by the Papists, all those fictitious modes of worship, in which they absurdly exercise themselves, would fall to the ground. It is indeed a horrible thing for the Papists to seek to discharge their duties towards God by performing their own superstitions. There is an immense number of them, as it is well known, and as it manifestly appears. Were they to admit this principle, that we cannot rightly worship God except by obeying his word, they would be delivered from their deep abyss of error. The Prophet's words then are very important, when he says, that God had commanded no such thing, and that it never came to his mind; as though he had said, that men assume too much wisdom, when they devise what he never required, nay, what he never knew." - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive
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God Is Sovereign Over Worship = The Regulative Principle Of Worship = Calvinism In Worship (and Refuting Heretical Arminianism In Worship)
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Why Is Reformed Worship So Important? The Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers and The Regulative Principle Of Worship (RPW), by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, Greg Price and Others (Free MP3s)
God's Will Vs. Man's Will In Worship, Romanism and Arminianism In Worship Are Heresy (The Plausibility Of Will Worship To Worldly Wisdom, Colossians 2:23, the Regulative Principle Of Worship [RPW], Etc.), By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, Kevin Reed, John Flavel, Thomas Watson, William Perkins and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)
- B. Leviticus 10:1-3: Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke, saying: 'By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; and before all the people I must be glorified'" (emphasis added). Carefully note that the nature of the sin committed by Nadab and Abihu was that they offered profane fire before the Lord "which He had not commanded them." God did not say they offered profane fire "which was forbidden them." The fact that He had not commanded the use of the strange fire meant it was forbidden (God's silence in the matter meant an express prohibition of all profane fire). According to Leviticus 16:12 it would appear that the coals for the incense offering were to come from the fire on the altar of burnt offering. The priest then brought the coals from the altar of burnt offering into the Tabernacle, and on the altar of incense he spread the coals out mixing the coals and the incense which then filled the Holy Place. Apparently in a rather spontaneous act of worship (with perhaps "good intentions" cf. Lev. 9:22-24) they took fire from another source to praise God. God had just consumed the burnt offering by a miraculous display of fire, and all the people were in an enthusiastic state of shouting and falling on their faces before the Most High God. Leviticus 10:1 immediately follows with "Then." It may be that in all of the excitement, Nadab and Abihu, quite overcome by the demonstration of God's awesome power took fire from the quickest and nearest source available to them and immediately went into the Tabernacle to offer incense to the Lord God. They took liberties in worship which God had not given them, and they were slain. They added to the worship of God an act that was not specifically authorized by God. They brought their own man-made worship into the house of God, and His anger burned against them. C. Objection: "But God has obviously relaxed His standards for He does not slay people on the spot for taking liberties in worship today. Why be so nit-picky today? We are under grace not law." I would have you remember that neither does God make a habit of immediately slaying those who lie to Him today though He did so to Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. Yet would anyone care to argue that lying to God is not as heinous to God today as it was to Him in Acts 5? Paul teaches, "Do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance" (Rom. 2:4). God's kind patience in forbearing with sin is not to be misunderstood as an approval of sin. It is God's objective Word and not my subjective feelings that assure me of God's approval of my worship. - From: FOUNDATION FOR REFORMATION: THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP by Pastor Greg Price (emphases added), Free Online Book at https://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/reformation-rpw-gp.htm
Calvinism, Reformation (Reformed) Worship, the Second Commandment, and the Regulative Principle of Worship, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
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"If it be inquired, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing existence amongst us, and maintains its truth, it will be found that the following two not only occupy the principal place, but comprehend under them all the other parts, and consequently the whole substance of Christianity: this is, a knowledge, first, of the mode in which God is duly worshipped; and, secondly, of the source from which salvation is to be obtained. When these are kept out of view, though we may glory in the name Christians, our profession is empty and vain. After these come the sacraments and the government of the church." - John Calvin, The Necessity of Reforming the Church, Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1544, reprinted 1995, p. 15, free online at https://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualnls/NRC_ch00.htm.
The History of the Service of Song: Real Reformation, Faithful Worship And Praising The Lord Jesus Christ Through Songs by Dr. Steven Dilday (8 Free SWRB MP3s)
- Colossians 2:8,20-23. The emphasis of the great apostle throughout this chapter is on forsaking the traditions and commandments of men, and rather clinging to Christ and His commandments, for "in Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge... in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power" (Col 2:3,9-10). Dear ones, you are not complete in yourself or in any man-made ceremonies in worship. You are complete, made full and acceptable through His work on your behalf. He is the head of the church, not you or me. He is our Prophet, Priest, and King. He alone directs our worship and presents it acceptable to the Father. Paul infers that to practice any "will-worship" (or "self-imposed religion" Col. 2:23) "according to the commandments and doctrines of men" (Col. 2:22) is to undermine the finished work of Christ (Col. 2:11-23) and to seek to usurp the headship over the church that rightly belongs to Christ (Col. 2:8-10,18-19). Self-imposed worship (i.e. any religious act, gesture, symbol, or ceremony in worship) is expressly condemned by Christ and His apostles. It is in fact false worship which no Christian should tolerate in the house of God without a verbal protest to the leadership and separation from this false worship until there is biblical reformation in worship ("The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising, counselling, commanding, using, and any wise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself." (The Larger Catechism, Question 109). - Greg Price, Foundation for Reformation: The Regulative Principle of Worship, free online at https://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/REFORMATION-RPW-GP.htm
Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy That Violates the Second and Fourth Commandments, and the Regulative Principle Of Worship
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A Reformed View of Angels, Demons, and the Devil, by Dr. Steven Dilday (From His Commentary On Revelation) and Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3s & PDFs)
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Commentary On Revelation #121-#128, A Reformed View of Angels, Part 1-8, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
Commentary On Revelation #129, A Reformed (and Sober) Demonology, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)
Commentary On Revelation #223, The Four Tempest Angels Revisited, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)
Commentary On Revelation #230, The Devil and Demons, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
The sermons above are from Dr. Dilday's exposition of the book of Revelation. Dr. Dilday's full Historicist (the classic Reformation eschatology) series of free MP3s on Revelation, the best commentary on Revelation in a very long time (maybe even the best ever), is ongoing and is at https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/147582 (on SermonAudio).
Some other samples from Dr. Dilday's Revelation commentary series follow below:
Commentary On Revelation #231, Identifying the Great Apostasy, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)
Mind-Blowing Biblical Prophecy Fulfilled To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In the Book of Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam and the Papal Antichrist, and Much More, By Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, Greg Price, John Calvin, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books, Scroll Down on Landing Page)
Islam In Revelation (The Satanic Origins of the Islamic Heresy), by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
This is the first of 12 free MP3 sermons covering Islam in Revelation in Dr. Dilday's fine audio commentary on the book of Revelation. See the 11 sermons that follow this sermon here (and beyond) for much more detail about what the book of Revelation teaches about the rise and fall of Islam.
Commentary On Revelation #95, The Apologetics of Prophecy, Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3, A Must Listen!)
First of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Solved, First Seal Opened, Rider on the White Horse, A Bow, A Crown, and Conquering by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free Christian Sermon MP3s)
Revelation and How Antichrist Gains A Foothold In the Church, In Your Heart and In Your Family by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free SWRB MP3s)
Angels and Demons, by Pastor Jim Dodson (13 Free SWRB MP3s)
Demon Possession in Early America & Defeating Demons, Satan, etc., by Cotton Mather (Free SWRB MP3s)
Satanism, Witchcraft, Demons and Drugs - Satanic Possession, Oppression & the Occult, by Ferrell Griswold (Free MP3)
Marx's Religion Of Revolution (Video: 23:46)
Marxism is nothing more than a repackaging of ancient paganism in a mask of pseudo-science and Godless modernity.
Marx and Satan (Videos)
Democratic memo declares 'rise of white Christian nationalism is a national security threat' - A Political Action Committee and a group of Democratic lawmakers want Joe Biden to pursue a 'secular agenda' that pushes back religious liberty gains made under Trump.
- Excerpt: In the area of education policy, the document suggested that the U.S. Attorney General "confer with the Department Office of Legal Counsel to issue a memorandum regarding enforcement of the Establishment Clause in public schools, including students’ protection from school-sponsored proselytizing and teaching accurate, evidence-based, secular curriculum rather than creationism in the schools."
15 Creation Questions Evolutionists Can't Answer (Free Video, MP3 and Online Text)
- "The idea of millions of years came from the belief that the fossil record was built up over a long time. As soon as people allow for millions of years, they allow for the fossil record to be millions of years old. This creates an insurmountable problem regarding the gospel. The fossil record consists of the death of billions of creatures. In fact, it is a record of death, disease, suffering, cruelty, and brutality. It is a very ugly record. The Bible is adamant though, that death, disease, and suffering came into the world as a result of sin. God instituted death and bloodshed because of sin so man could be redeemed. As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed. The doctrine of original sin, then, is totally undermined. If there were death, disease, and suffering before Adam rebelled -- then what did sin do to the world? What does Paul mean in Romans 8 when he says the whole of creation groans in pain because of the Curse? How can all things be restored in the future to no more death and suffering, unless the beginning was also free of death and suffering? The whole message of the gospel falls apart if one allows millions of years for the creation of the world." - The Necessity for Believing in Six Literal Days by Ken Ham. Also hear Six Day Creation and The Eisegesis Problem by Ken Ham (Free MP3) and "The Doctrine Of Original Sin (26 Free MP3s) by Jonathan Edwards.
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The Grace & Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, by John Owen (6 Free MP3s)
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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. - John Owen(Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
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"Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Hardness of Heart in Christians, Why Hast Thou Hardened Our Heart From Thy Fear? by John Owen (Free MP3), The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded by John Owen (6 Free MP3) and Much More
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
The Remainders of Indwelling Sin: The Nature, Power and Deceit Of It, By John Owen, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Thomas Watson, Paul Washer, the Westminster Divines, Dr. Joel Beeke, Stephen Charnock, Greg Price, John Calvin, Jim Dodson, Thomas Boston, Bill Mencarow, Arthur Pink, Al Martin, Thomas Ridgeley, Christopher Love and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)
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"Neglect of private prayer and meditation comes from a weariness of God, as Isaiah complains (Isa. 43:22). But God alone is the fountain and spring of spiritual life. Any withdrawing from him must bring about a decline, for what we are in private duties, that we are, and no more. If this root fails, all fruit will quickly fail. Just as a tree must decay, wither and droop if the root fails, so must our souls." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
160 Free MP3s by John Owen (from SWRB at Sermonaudio)
FREE MP3: John Owen Represbyterianized 1 of 2 - How John Owen Went From Presbyterianism To Independency And Back To Presbyterianism Again
- Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, in John Owen Represbyterianized, also wrote, "The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that Britain's great Puritan Theologian... John Owen, was essentially not a Congregationalist but a Presbyterian. He first pastored a Presbyterian Church. On his deathbed, he re-affirmed Presbyterianism."
FREE MP3: John Owen Represbyterianized 2 of 2 - How John Owen Went From Presbyterianism To Independency And Back To Presbyterianism Again
- John Girardeau, in his Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church (pp. 24-25) also writes, "The words of the great theologian, John Owen 'and the British Isles have produced no greater' are solemn and deserve to be seriously pondered: 'The principle that the church hath power to institute any thing or ceremony belonging to the worship of God, either as to matter or manner, beyond the observance of such circumstances as necessarily attend such ordinances as Christ Himself hath instituted, lies at the bottom of all the horrible superstition and idolatry, of all the confusion, blood, persecution, and wars, that have for so long a season spread themselves over the face of the Christian world' (cited in John Owen's A Discourse Concerning Liturgies and their Imposition, see below)."
Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #1 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)
Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #2 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)
Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #3 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3)
Concerning Liturgies & Their Imposition #4 Puritan/Reformation Worship Vs. Innovations of Antichrist/Rome & Her Harlot Daughters by John Owen (Free MP3s)
God's Will Vs. Man's Will In Worship, Romanism and Arminianism In Worship Are Heresy (The Plausibility Of Will Worship To Worldly Wisdom, Colossians 2:23, the Regulative Principle Of Worship [RPW], Etc.), By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, Kevin Reed, John Flavel, Thomas Watson, William Perkins and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)
Why Most Worship Is Actually Idolatry, Which God Hates, According To the Bible (the Second Commandment Or The Regulative Principle Of Worship, RPW) By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, the Westminster Assembly, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, et al. (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)
Christ-Mass (Christmas) A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy, Classic Reformation (Puritan & Reformed) Teaching On Christmas and Other Holy Days; Or Christmas, and All Man-Made Holy Days, Condemned By the Lord Jesus Christ In the Bible (Free MP3s, Videos & Online Books)
John Owen (7 of 18, Introduction and Overview of the Puritans) Who Were the Puritans and What Did They Teach? (With the Relevance of Puritanism For Christians Today) by Dr. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)
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John Owen was "(arguably) the greatest thinking English Puritan Theologian that ever lived." - Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (A Puritan Mind)
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone, Through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ -- Explained, Confirmed, Vindicated (35 Free MP3s)
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"We can begin each day with the deeply encouraging realization, I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
A Display of Arminianism: Being A Discovery of the Old Pelagian Idol of Free Will, With the New Goddess Contingency Advancing Themselves Into the Throne of the God of Heaven, to the Prejudice of His Grace, Providence, and Supreme Dominion Over the Children of Men..., by John Owen
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"Our next task is to take a view of the idol himself, of this great deity of free-will, whose original being not well known, he is pretended, like the Ephesian image of Diana, to have fallen down from heaven, and to have his endowments from above. But yet, considering what a nothing he was at his first discovery in comparison of the vast giant-like hugeness to which now he is grown, we may say of him as the painter said of his monstrous picture, which he had mended or rather marred according to every one's fancy, 'Hunc populus fecit,' it is the issue of the people's brain." - John Owen, A Display of Arminianism (Canada: Still Waters Revival Books, 1989), p. 114 (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
John Owen - Quotes and Books
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"To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is to overthrow the gospel and the faith of the universal church in all ages." - John Owen, The Holy Spirit (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Thousand of Free Puritan and Reformed Resources, By John Owen and Many Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Book, Quotes, Etc.)
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