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Instrumental Music in Public Worship: The Views of John Calvin; Instrumental Music in Public Worship: History Surrounding the Westminster Assembly; The Heresy of Instrumental Music in Public Worship, by John L. Girardeau
WORSHIP: THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP IN HISTORY, by Dr. Reg Barrow
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What are the signs of the times in the sphere of Worship? I confess that upon this subject I scarcely dare trust myself to speak. The movement of our times strikes me with astonishment. There was nothing in the past about which God was so jealous as the mode of His worship. There was nothing around which He threw guards and fences so awful as around His worship. His wrath leaped forth as a vehement flame against those who asserted their wills in His worship. He reserved to Himself the high prerogative of appointing the ways in which men should approach Him in His public worship, and instantly resented every invasion of that prerogative. But all that is now changed, we are told. We have passed under the milder sanctions of the New Testament dispensation, and more discretionary power is granted to the church. Hold! Did not Christ enjoin it upon His apostles to teach the church to observe all things whatsoever He had commanded? And does not that necessarily imply that they were to teach the church to abstain from all things whatsoever He had not commanded? To do nothing which He had not commanded? Did not the apostles organize the church according to His will? Did they not appoint her whole order, including her public worship? And are we not bound by Christ’s will thus expressed? Did the apostolic church know anything of instrumental music in public worship, of liturgies, of the decorations of church edifices? How come we to know them except by breaking with the apostolic order and the will of our King? Hearken, men and brethren! Let us take just one of these elements of innovation upon the primitive order of worship and rapidly trace its history. For 1,200 years the Christian church knew nothing of instrumental music in her public worship. In the thirteenth century its proposed introduction into the Church of Rome — corrupt as it then was — was ineffectually resisted by some of her most eminent theologians. At the reformation the Swiss Protestant Church cast it out; the French Protestant Church cast it out; the Dutch Church cast it out; the Scotch Church cast it out; the English Puritans cast it out; and the Church of England came very nigh casting it out. At its first planting, the American Evangelical Church refused to adopt it. What do we now behold? Its use by nearly all the leading churches of Protestantism, in opposition to the Scriptures and the venerable precedents which have just been recited. What a change! What a blazing sign in the sky of the Protestant Church! What is to stop the tendency? The beginning is the mother of the end. What end? The full orchestra of Rome. - John L. Girardeau (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church, By John L. Girardeau -- this book is free online at https://www.covenanter.org/reformed/2015/7/27/john-l-girardeaus-book-on-instrumental-music-in-the-public-worship-of-the-church in text, and at https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/301984 (5 MP3s) -- and both versions are also on the Puritan Hard Drive.
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All human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the Word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive.
FREE SWRB MP3: Instrumental Music in Public Worship in the Old Testament (and the Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformed Worship) by Greg Price (Free MP3 and Video)
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- "Instrumental music, which, as much as the offering of sacrifice, was identified with it, and which was not used in the service of the synagogue, was equally abrogated. ... We have statements from uninspired men, coming down to the end of the third century, and even later, in regard to Christian worship and psalmody; and, even till then, there is evidence that there was no such thing as instrumental accompaniments to the praise. Of course, I do not adduce the evidence of these early Christian writers, as if their authority was any proof of the right or the wrong on this question; but only as bearing testimony in regard to a matter of fact, about which they could not be mistaken; and which, once admitted to be a fact, can be accounted for only on the supposition, that the instrumental music of the Jewish worship fell with the "worldly sanctuary " of Judaism. ... If any one says, "But what great harm, after all, can there be in this?" I answer, "There is all the harm of 'will-worship,' which the Lord so emphatically condemns." If there was no such thing as an organ, or any instrument of music, used in the worship of the Apostolic Church, and if it be supposed that instrumental music is really helpful to the devout feelings of a Gospel-worshipper, then see what is the inevitable inference: Either the Apostles, who were commissioned to teach the churches "ALL things whatsoever" that Christ had "commanded them," failed in their duty, and omitted a very important part of their instructions; in which case, the very men on whose testimony the truth of the Gospel narrative essentially depends, are found unfaithful, and consequently, may have been "false witnesses of God:" or, the Lord Jesus, himself, was so deficient in wisdom, or in kindness, as to omit an instruction which was indispensable to the happiness and spiritual improvement of his people, and which it was left for the Papacy, in the dark ages, to discover! In every case, "will-worship" is of a most malignant influence, and most presumptuous in its very nature." - Alexander Hislop (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Casting Down Instrumental Music, As the Badge Of Popery (Ceremonial Law), In Worship, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3)
Trying the Spirits To Avoid Antichrist, His False Doctrine (Arminianism, Sacramentalism, Etc.), His False Worship (the Mass, Man-Made Hymns, Musical Instruments In Public Worship, Etc.), His Holy Days and Much More by Jim Dodson et al. (Free Reformed MP3s, Books and Videos)
- While many who employ [the organ] consider themselves the very champions of Protestantism, it will be long, long indeed, before they uproot Popery by this regulator of choirs; and while nothing has ever proved more annoying to Papists than the singing of Psalms in a congregational manner, the playing of all the heretical organs in Christendom causes to them comparatively little sorrow. On the contrary, the cross surmounting a Protestant meeting house, and the swelling tones of the organ within, give to her sons the hope that “holy mother” may yet receive these errorists, who are, at least, so far rejoicing under her shadow, and becoming familiar with her "image and superscription." - Alexander Blaikie, The Philosophy of Sectarianism, emphases added
Uncommanded Worship Is Idolatry (Reformation, Regulative Principle, Christ's Kingship) by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
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, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Kevin Reed, Thomas Watson and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Etc.)
The Badge of Popery: Musical Instruments in Public Worship, by R. J. George
The Corruption of Worship, and the Rise of Antichrist In History, Prophesied In Revelation, by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, George Gillespie, et al. (Free Reformation MP3s & Much More)
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It was only permitted to the Jews, as sacrifice was, for the heaviness and grossness of their souls. God condescended to their weakness, because they were lately drawn off from idols: but now instead of organs, we may use our own bodies to praise him withal. - Chrysostom
Sin Of Reviving Forms Of Worship That Have Been Destroyed Vs the Regulative Principle, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3)
Arminianism In Worship Is Idolatry & Will Worship, & Leads To the Papal Antichrist, by Pastor Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)
- The Council of Laodicea (367) forbids the use of musical instruments in worship, and this has remained the policy of the Eastern Orthodox Church to the present day. In 416 the Council of Carthage addressed this issue and declared, "On the Lord's day let all instruments of music be silenced."
The Popish (Christ Denying, Arminian Affirming) Heresy of Instrumental Music in Public Worship, By John L. Girardeau
"Let us pause a moment to notice the fact, supported by a mass of incontrovertible evidence, that the Christian church did not employ instrumental music in its public worship for 1200 years after Christ."
With reference to the time when organs were first introduced into use in the Roman Catholic Church, let us hear Bingham:1
"It is now generally agreed among learned men that the use of organs came into the church since the time of Thomas Aquinas, Anno 1250; for he, in his Summs, has these words: 'Our church does not use musical instruments, as harps and psalteries, to praise God withal, that she may not seem to Judaize."...
Mr. Wharton also has observed that Marinus Sanutus, who lived about the year 1290, was the first who brought the use of wind-organs into churches, whence he was surnamed Torcellus, which is the name for an organ in the Italian tongue....
Let us pause a moment to notice the fact, supported by a mass of incontrovertible evidence, that the Christian church did not employ instrumental music in its public worship for 1200 years after Christ....
It deserves serious consideration, moreover, that notwithstanding the ever-accelerated drift towards corruption in worship as well as in doctrine and government, the Roman Catholic Church did not adopt this corrupt practice until about the middle of the thirteenth century....
When the organ was introduced into its worship it encountered strong opposition, and made its way but slowly to general acceptance. These assuredly are facts that should profoundly impress Protestant churches. How can they adopt a practice which the Roman Church, in the year 1200, had not admitted...
Then came the Reformation; and the question arises, How did the Reformers deal with instrumental music in the church?...
Zwingle has already been quoted to show instrumental music was one of the shadows of the old law which has been realized in the gospel. He pronounces its employment in the present dispensation "wicked pervicacity." There is no doubt in regard to his views on the subject, which were adopted by the Swiss Reformed churches...
Calvin is very express in his condemnation of instrumental music in connection with the public worship of the Christian church... In his homily on 1 Sam. xviii. 1-9, he delivers himself emphatically and solemnly upon the subject:
"In Popery there was a ridiculous and unsuitable imitation [of the Jews]. While they adorned their temples, and valued themselves as having made the worship of God more splendid and inviting, they employed organs (emphasis added), and many other such ludicrous things, by which the Word and worship of God are exceedingly profaned, the people being much more attached to those rites than to the understanding of the divine Word..."
Whatever may be the practice in recent times of the churches of Holland, the Synods of the Reformed Dutch Church, soon after the Reformation, pronounced very decidedly against the use of instrumental music in public worship. The National Synod at Middleburg, in 1581, declared against it, and the Synod of Holland and Zealand, in 1594, adopted this strong resolution;
"That they would endeavor to obtain of the magistrate the laying aside of organs, and the singing with them in the churches...." The Provincial Synod of Dort also inveighed severely against their use...
... Charles H. Spurgeon, ...upholds an apostolic simplicity of worship. The great congregation which is blessed with the privilege of listening to his instructions has no organ "to assist" them in singing...
The non-prelatic churches, Independent and Presbyterian, began their development on the American continent without instrumental music. They followed the English Puritans and the Scottish Church, which had adopted the principles of the Calvinistic Reformed Church...
It has thus been proved by an appeal to historical facts, that the church, although lapsing more and more into defection from the truth and into a corruption of apostolic practice, had no instrumental music for twelve hundred years; and that the Calvinistic Reformed Church ejected it from its services as a element of Popery, even the Church of England having come very nigh to its extrusion from her worship.
The historical argument, therefore, combines with the scriptural and the confessional to raise a solemn and powerful protest against its employment by the Presbyterian Church. IT IS HERESY IN THE SPHERE OF WORSHIP.
ENDNOTES: 1. Works, Vol. iii., p. 137, ff. FROM: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH, By John L. Girardeau (Still Waters Revival Books, [1888] 2000), "Historical Argument" pp. 158, 159, 161, 165, 170, 179, on the Puritan Hard Drive (in both printed book and audio formats).
- Instrumental Music in the Public Worship of the Church, By John L. Girardeau -- this book is free online at https://www.covenanter.org/reformed/2015/7/27/john-l-girardeaus-book-on-instrumental-music-in-the-public-worship-of-the-church in text, and at https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/301984 (5 MP3s) Emphases added above.
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Reformed Quotes By John Calvin, John Knox, The Westminster Assembly, Thomas Watson, John Flavel, William Perkins, David Steele, Dr. Steven Dilday, Dr. Reg Barrow and Others About Biblical (Reformed) Worship and Singing the Psalms, With Many Free Reformation Resources On Worship
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By all which, you see where the idolatry of worship lies. The instituting of any, though the smallest part of worship, in and by our own authority, without scripture-warrant, makes it idolatrous, as well as if we worshipped an idol (Ex: 20:5). - John Flavel, The Works of John Flavel, Vol, 4. p. 527 (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
Arminianism In Worship Is Idolatry & Will Worship, & Leads To the Papal Antichrist, by Greg Price (Free MP3 and PDF)
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All things considered, certainly it is no small condemnation of us to behold what an ardent zeal the holy martyrs had in the past, especially in comparison with the nonchalance we demonstrate. For as soon as a poor man of that time got so much as a little taste of the true knowledge of God, he did not hesitate to expose himself to the danger involved in confessing his faith. He would have preferred to be burned alive than to go so far as to commit some outward act of idolatry. - John Calvin on the Puritan Hard Drive
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, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Kevin Reed, Thomas Watson and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Etc.)
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Some one will therefore ask me what counsel I would like to give to a believer who thus dwells in some Egypt or Babylon where he may not worship God purely, but is forced by the common practice to accommodate himself to bad things. The first advice would be to leave [i.e. relocate - GB] if he could... If someone has no way to depart, I would counsel him to consider whether it would be possible for him to abstain from all idolatry in order to preserve himself pure and spotless toward God in both body and soul. Then let him worship God in private (at home - ed.), praying him to restore his poor church to its right estate. - John Calvin,Come Out From Among Them, The Anti-Nicodemite Writings of John Calvin, Protestant Heritage Press, "A Short Treatise," pp. 93-94. John Calvin quote (above) cited in Appendix G in The Covenanted Reformation Defended, by Greg Barrow (Free Online Book)
What's Wrong With Worship In Most Churches? (Many Free Reformation Resources On Reformed Worship!)
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For God is not worshiped of us, but when it is his will to accept our worship: and it is not his will to accept our worship, but when it is according to his will. - William Perkins, Puritan (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
God's Will Versus 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 Pastor Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Pastor 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.)
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Now, if you will prove that your ceremonies proceed from faith, and do please God, you must prove that God in expressed words has commanded them; or else you shall never prove that they proceed from faith, nor yet that they please God; but they are sin, and do displease him, according to the words of the apostle, "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin". - John Knox, Works, Vol. 1 of 6, pp 195-196, (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
False Worship and Well Intentioned Idolatry Brings God's Wrath and Even Death (For Violations Of the Second Commandment Or the Regulative Principle of Worship) by Jim Dodson, John Calvin, John Owen, Greg Price, Jonathan Edwards, W.J. Mencarow, John Girardeau and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Books)
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The human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols. - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book One, Chapter 11.8, Beveridge Edition
Why Is Reformed Worship So Important? The Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers & The Regulative Principle Of Worship (RPW) by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, Greg Price & Others (Free MP3s)
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But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visble representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture. - Westminster Confession of Faith, 21:1 (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
The Westminster Larger (Q&A 107-110) and Shorter (Q&A 49-52) Catechisms On the Second Commandment (Reformed Worship, the Regulative Principle of Worship, Etc.) by Jim Dodson (Free 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.
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So let us hold to this rule, that all human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling his honour underfoot. - John Calvin, "The First Sermon, On Psalm 16:4", cited in Come Out From Among Them: The Anti-Nicodemite Writings of John Calvin, Reed, ed., p. 141 (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
JOHN CALVIN ON SEPARATION FROM FALSE WORSHIP (i.e., non REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE WORSHIP) and WORSHIPPING PRIVATELY IN YOUR HOME
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The Regulative Principle of Worship declares that God alone is sovereign in worship. The Regulative Principle of Worship simply applies the principles of Calvinism (i.e. God's sovereign Lordship) to worship, whereas the view that what God doesn't forbid in worship is permitted is applying the principles of Arminianism (i.e. man's sovereign lordship) to worship. Just as fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in salvation (e.g. "I can cooperate with God in salvation", or "I have a natural freedom to choose Christ"), so fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in worship ("I can cooperate with God in worship by adding what I desire so long as God doesn't specifically forbid it"). But just as God condemns a man-centered salvation, so God condemns a man-centered worship (Col. 2:23 specifically condemns all will-worship, i.e. all worship instituted by man). - Greg Price, Foundation for Reformation: The Regulative Principle of Worship (Free Online Book), p. 10, or on the Puritan Hard Drive
The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) in the New Testament by Greg Price (Free MP3 from the Puritan Worship Series)
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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
The Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price Free MP3 from the Puritan Worship Series)
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Take heed of all occasions of idolatry, for idolatry is devil-worship. Psalm 106: 37. If you search through the whole Bible, there is not one sin that God has more followed with plagues than idolatry. The Jews have a saying, that in every evil that befalls them, there is uncia aurei vituli, an ounce of the golden calf in it. Hell is a place for idolaters. 'For without are idolaters.' Rev 22: 15. Senesius calls the devil a rejoicer at idols, because the image-worshippers help to fill hell. - Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments on the Puritan Hard Drive
Biblical Worship by Kevin Reed (Free Online Book)
Written with a clear view of upholding the biblical tradition of Reformation worship -- with the life and death struggle that was a backdrop to the Reformers' war against the idols clearly in mind. Touches on a number of controversial issues that have arisen as human innovations in worship have become commonplace in contemporary church life -- even among those who wrongly think they are Reformed in their worship doctrine and practice.
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When the Lord brought the testimony of his witnesses out of obscurity in Piedmont, Bohemio, &c., by the ministry of Luther, his contemporaries and successors; then the psalms were restored to their place in the churches of the Reformation. Luther was skilled in music, himself composed many hymns; but he carefully distinguished between the Psalms and his hymns. An old lady in eastern Pennsylvania is said to have in her possession 'a German Psalm-book, published by Luther himself.' The book closes with a collection of Luther's hymns; but the old lady says that in her young days in Germany, 'its directions were rigidly obeyed, and in public worship they sang only the Psalms of David.' The same order, as is well known,prevailed in all the other reformed churches of Europe and the British Isles. - Cited in: David Steele, "Psalms and Hymns," The Original Covenanter Magazine (Vol. 3:1-3:16, March 1881 to Dec. 1884), p. 41 (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
War Against The Idols: The Reformation of Worship From Erasmus to John Calvin (Separation, Idolatry)
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It is the duty of Christians to praise God publicly, by singing of psalms together in the congregation. - The Directory For The Publick Worship Of God, "Of Singing of Psalms" emitted by the Westminster Assembly (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
What Did Jesus Do? A Reformation and Iconoclastic War Against Idolatry, Lies and All Sin, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3)
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But what Augustine says is true, that no one can sing things worthy of God, unless he has received them from Himself [i.e. from God-GLP]. Therefore, after we have sought on every side, searching here and there, we shall find no songs better and more suitable for our purpose than the Psalms of David, dictated to him and made for him by the Holy Spirit. . . . it should accustom itself hereafter to sing these divine and heavenly songs with good King David - John Calvin, Opera, VI:171, cited in Bushell, Songs of Zion, pp.181,182.
WORSHIP: THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP IN HISTORY, by Dr. Reg Barrow
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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 (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
IF YOU NEGLECT DAILY FAMILY WORSHIP (AND EDUCATING YOUR CHILDREN IN CHRIST) YOUR ELDERS SHOULD SUSPEND AND DEBAR YOU FROM THE LORD'S SUPPER
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JOHN KNOX, ON THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP, WRITES: "The matter is not of so small importance, as some suppose. The question is, whether God or man ought to be obeyed in matters of religion? In mouth, all do confess that only God is worthy of sovereignty. But after many - by the instigation of the devil, and by the presumptuous arrogance of carnal wisdom and worldly policy - have defaced God's holy ordinance, men fear not to follow what laws and common consent (mother of all mischief) have established and commanded. But thus continually I can do nothing but hold, and affirm all things polluted, yea, execrable and accursed, which God by his Word has not sanctified in his religion. God grant you his Holy Spirit rightly to judge." - John Knox, Works VI:14, cited in John Knox, True and False Worship (Free Online Book) and the Puritan Hard Drive
Free Online Reformation and Puritan Books, MP3s, Debates and Articles on Puritan and Reformed Worship
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Instrumental Music in Public Worship: The Views of John Calvin: "To sing the praises of God upon the harp and psaltery," says Calvin, "unquestionably formed a part of the training of the law and of the service of God under that dispensation of shadows and figures, but they are not now to be used in public thanksgiving."1 He says again: "With respect to the tabret, harp, and psaltery, we have formerly observed, and will find it necessary afterwards to repeat the same remark, that the Levites, under the law, were justified in making use of instrumental music in the worship of God; it having been his will to train his people, while they were yet tender and like children, by such rudiments until the coming of Christ. But now, when the clear light of the gospel has dissipated the shadows of the law and taught us that God is to be served in a simpler form, it would be to act a foolish and mistaken part to imitate that which the prophet enjoined only upon those of his own time."2 He further observes: "We are to remember that the worship of God was never understood to consist in such outward services, which were only necessary to help forward a people as yet weak and rude in knowledge in the spiritual worship of God. A difference is to be observed in this respect between his people under the Old and under the New Testament; for now that Christ has appeared, and the church has reached full age, it were only to bury the light of the gospel should we introduce the shadows of a departed dispensation. From this it appears that the Papists, as I shall have occasion to show elsewhere, in employing instrumental music cannot be said so much to imitate the practice of God's ancient people as to ape it in a senseless and absurd manner, exhibiting a silly delight in that worship of the Old Testament which was figurative and terminated with the gospel."3 ENDNOTES: 1. On Ps. lxxi. 22; 2. On Ps. lxxxi. 3; 3. On Ps. xcii. 1. - FROM: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF THE CHURCH, By John L. Girardeau (Still Waters Revival Books, [1888] 2000), pp. 63, 64, or as a Free Online Book or Free Online Audio Book (Free MP3s) or Free Video or on the Puritan Hard Drive
A Warning Against Backsliding, False Worship and False Teachers (Originally titled: "Antipharmacum Saluberrimum: Or, A Serious and Seasonable Caveat to All the Saints in This Hour of Temptation"), by John Flavel
Resource Description: Exposes the subtlety of false worship and false teachers and counsels all Christians to remove themselves from under ministries that practice such things. Promotes family religion and house gatherings in times of great declension and apostasy (such as ours). John Flavel (1627-1691) was a English Presbyterian (Puritan) who was ejected for nonconformity to the dictates of the forces of Antichrist in the "great ejection" of 1662.
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Dr. Girardeau has defended the old usage of our church with a moral courage, loyalty to truth, clearness of reasoning and wealth of learning which should make every true Presbyterian proud of him, whether he adopts his conclusions or not. The framework of his argument is this: it begins with that vital truth which no Presbyterian can discard without a square desertion of our principles. The man who contests this first premise had better set out at once for Rome: God is to be worshipped only in the ways appointed in His Word. Every act of public cultus not positively enjoined by Him is thereby forbidden. Christ and His apostles ordained the musical worship of the New Dispensation without any sort of musical instrument, enjoining only the singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Hence such instruments are excluded from Christian worship. Such has been the creed of all churches, and in all ages, except for the Popish communion after it had reached the nadir of its corruption at the end of the thirteenth century, and of its prelatic imitators. - R.L. Dabney's Review of Girardeau's Instrumental Music in Public Worship (1889) Excerpted from The Presbyterian Quarterly (July, 1889, no. 9)
Calvinism, Reformation (Reformed) Worship, the Second Commandment and the Regulative Principle by Dr. Steven Dilday (2 Free MP3s)
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Christmas was not celebrated by the apostolic church. It was not celebrated during the first few centuries of the church. As late as A.D. 245, Origen (Hom. 8 on Leviticus) repudiated ...the idea of keeping the birthday of Christ, "as if he were a king Pharaoh." By the middle of the 4th century, many churches in the Latin west were celebrating Christmas. During the 5th century, Christmas became an official Roman Catholic holy day. In A.D. 534, Christmas was recognized as an official holy day by the Roman state.The reason that Christmas became a church holy day has nothing to do with the Bible. The Bible does not give the date of Christ's birth. Nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to celebrate Christmas. Christmas (as well as many other pagan practices) was adopted by the Roman church as a missionary strategy. - The Regulative Principle of Worship and Christmas, by Brian Schwertley (Free Online Book), or on the Puritan Hard Drive
Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy (Many Free Reformation Resources Against the Papal Antichrist's Holy Days, Like ChristMass, Easter, Michaelmas, Lent, Etc. Also includes many Reformed quotes exposing the sin of keeping all Holy Days not instituted by God in His Word, the Bible).
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In 1899, the General Assembly of the PCUS was overtured to give a "pronounced and explicit deliverance" against the recognition of "Christmas and Easter as religious days." Even at this late date, the answer came back in a solid manner: There is no warrant in Scripture for the observance of Christmas and Easter as holydays, rather the contrary (see Gal. 4:9-11; Col. 2:16-21), and such observance is contrary to the principles of the Reformed faith, conducive to will-worship, and not in harmony with the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. - From: Kevin Reed, Christmas: An Historical Survey Regarding Its Origins and Opposition To It (Free Online Book)
Why God Hates Easter, One Of the Papal Antichrist's Obligatory High Holy Days by Brian Schwertley, Greg Price, William Perkins, Dr. Steven Dilday, Dr. Matthew McMahon, Kevin Reed, (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)
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The Regulative Principle of Worship is God's ordained law for worship... You see there is no neutrality in the way in which we approach God in worship. Either we approach the living God according to His revealed Word (i.e. the Regulative Principle of Worship), or we approach Him according to our revealed word. Someone's word is going to expressly guide us in worship. The only question is, whose word will guide us? God's or man's? - Greg Price, Foundation For Reformation: The Regulative Principle Of Worship, free online book.
Psalm Singing in Scripture and History, by Dr. Reg Barrow (Free Online Article)
- Hymns of human composition are used so commonly now in public worship by Presbyterian churches that it is difficult to believe that the practice is not a hundred years old, and that in some of the churches it is of very recent date. On the supposition that it is good and dutiful and wise to sing such hymns in worship, it is equally difficult to account for the neglect of the churches at the time of the Reformation, and for generations afterwards. What could have so blinded the reformers as to make them reject hymns and sing the Psalms alone? How could the Westminster Divines, in framing their Confession of Faith and Directory for Worship, have been so unanimous in the blunder that the service of praise is to consist of the 'singing of Psalms?' And apart from the aspect of duty, how could the Presbyterian churches, for about a hundred and fifty or two hundred years after the Westminster Assembly, have been so insensible to the power of hymns as an attractive addition to their public services? We cannot by any means understand how it was that, if it was dutiful to use hymns in worship, the reformers did not discover the Scriptural warrant for the duty, especially as hymns had been used for centuries by the Church of Rome. Nor can we understand how they rejected the hymns and used the Psalms alone, unless on the supposition that they believed the use of hymns to be part of the will-worship of Rome. If they were wrong on this point, then Rome and our modern Presbyterian churches are right. In that case, the Puritans and Covenanters were fanatics, and Romanists were truly enlightened! And most of our Presbyterian churches of the present day were fanatical too, and did not become truly enlightened and liberal till they got back to the Romish practice! - James Dick, Hymns and Hymn Books (1883), emphases added, on the Puritan Hard Drive
HYMNS, THE REFORMATION, THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY & EXCLUSIVE PSALMODY (PURITAN WORSHIP & FREE MP3s)
Why God Killed Nadab and Abihu For False Worship (Much Free On Biblical, Puritan and Reformed, Worship!)
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- 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. - FOUNDATION FOR REFORMATION: THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP, by Greg Price (Free Online Book About Sola Scriptura and the Regulative Principle of Worship)
The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship), by Pastor Greg Price (Free MP3, Puritan Worship Series)
The Regulative Principle of Worship (RPW) in the New Testament, by Pastor Greg Price (Free MP3, Puritan Worship Series)
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.
What's Wrong With Worship In Most Churches -- False Worship (Violations Of the Second Commandment Or the Regulative Principle of Worship) and Well Intentioned Idolatry Brings God's Wrath and Even Death, by Pastor Jim Dodson, John Owen and Others
The Vain Worship Of Hypocrites and How False Worship Destroys Nations Under God's Wrath, By Pastor Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Pastor Greg Price, John Knox, Kevin Reed, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, Thomas Watson and Others (Free MP3s)
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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
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)
John Calvin Quote: The Primacy Of Faithful Biblical Worship
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John Calvin wrote, "If it be asked, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing 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, viz., a knowledge first, of the right way to worship God; and secondly of the source from which salvation is to be sought. When these are kept out of view, though we may glory in the name of Christians, our profession is empty and vain." - Cited in, Carlos Eire, War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship, p. 198, citing John Calvin's great book, On the Necessity of Reforming the Church (FREE ONLINE)
Why Most Worship Is Actually Idolatry, Which God Hates, According To the Bible (the Second Commandment Or The Regulative Principle Of Worship, RPW) By John Calvin, Pastor Jim Dodson, John Calvin, , the Westminster Assembly, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Kevin Reed, Thomas Watson, Greg Price and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Etc.)
What's Wrong With Worship In Most Churches? -- False Worship (Violations Of the Second Commandment Or the Regulative Principle of Worship) and Well Intentioned Idolatry Brings God's Wrath and Even Death, by Jim Dodson, John Owen, Jonathan Edwards, Greg Price, John Calvin, Kevin Reed, David Steele, William J. Mencarow, John Flavel, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Girardeau, John McNaugher and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Books, Kindle, Etc.)
Why Is Reformed Worship So Important? The Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers & The Regulative Principle Of Worship (RPW) by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, Greg Price & Others (Free MP3s)
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John Calvin on the Regulative Principle of Worship: "...which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart." "...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, Commentary on Jeremiah 7:31
John Calvin Thunders Against False Worship
JOHN OWEN QUOTE: PURITAN WORSHIP (WITH FREE MP3s BY JOHN OWEN, JOHN CALVIN, et al. ON BIBLICAL WORSHIP)
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Arminianism In Worship Is Idolatry and Will Worship, and Leads To the Papal Antichrist, by Greg Price (Free MP3)
Classic Calvinist Worship, What Is It? by John Knox, Greg Price, John Calvin, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Jim Dodson, Samuel Rutherford, Kevin Reed, John McNaugher, W.J. Mencarow, David Steele, Dr. Reg Barrow, George Gillespie and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Books)
"We glorify God by believing. ... Faith knows there are no impossibilities with God, and will trust him where it cannot trace him." - Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity, p.12, On the Puritan Hard Drive
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We glorify God by believing. Rom 4:20. 'Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God.' Unbelief affronts God, it gives him the lie; 'he that believeth not, maketh God a liar.' 1 John 5:10. But faith brings glory to God; it sets to its seal that God is true. John 3:33. He that believes flies to God's mercy and truth, as to an altar of refuge; he engarrisons himself in the promises, and trusts all he has with God. Ps. 31:5. 'Into thy hands I commit my spirit.' This is a great way of bringing glory to God, and God honours faith, because faith honours him. It is a great honour we do to a man when we trust him with all we have, when we put our lives and estates into his hand; it is a sign we have a good opinion of him. The three children glorified God by believing. 'The God whom we serve is able to deliver us, and will deliver us.' Dan 3:17. Faith knows there are no impossibilities with God, and will trust him where it cannot trace him. - Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity, p.12 (on the Puritan Hard Drive), emphases added. This quotation was located using the Master Search Index on the Puritan Hard Drive, during a search for word "unbelief."
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Postmillennialism (Free Reformation MP3s, Reformed Books & Puritan Quotes)
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Postmillennialism (44 Free Reformation MP3s, by Pastor Jim Dodson, scroll down to the link in the middle column: "More free MP3s and PDFs in Jim Dodson's Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism series". Defends Biblical [Reformation] Historicism and Postmillennialism from every book of the Bible and every chapter in Revelation! Outstanding exegesis that is extraordinarily edifying!)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets (23 Free SWRB MP3s, Classic Reformation Historicism and Postmillennialism), Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, by Pastor Jim Dodson
Postmillennialism and Revelation 20, by David Silversides (Free MP3)
Completely refutes Amillennial from Scripture, while defending Biblical Postmillennialism.
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Because of their outlook upon the future all Scottish missionary leaders took the long-term view in evangelization, that is to say, they did not regard the number of individual converts in the present as the first consideration, but rather that energy should be deployed in work which would have the maximum influence upon nations in subsequent generations. - Iain Murray, The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation Of Prophecy
Pauline Eschatology by Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Scholar Jim Dodson (3 Free MP3s and PDFs)
God's Plan For the Church Through History To the End Of the Millennium, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3 & PDF)
The Restoration of the Jews (Israel) In Reformed Eschatology (Free MP3s, Videos, etc.)
Civil Government (Politics) & The All Encompassing Worldwide Victory/Advance Of The Reformed Faith, Prayer, & Postmillennialism, By Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)
Worldwide Victory Of The Reformed Faith
GODLY GOALS OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
Interpreting Prophecy: Reformation Keys
- "Another instance in which posterity is recognized in covenant obligation is found in Joshua 9:15. This covenant was made between the children of Israel and the Gibeonites. Between four and five hundred years after that time, the children of Israel are visited with a very severe famine, in the days of David. 2 Sam. 21:1. And it is expressly declared by the Lord that, 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.' And at the same time, v. 2, that very covenant is recognized, and the breach of it is stated, as being the formal reason of the divine displeasure. Now, had it not been for this covenant, the extirpation of the Gibeonites would not have been imputed to Israel as a thing criminal; for they were comprehended in Canaanitish nations, which God had commanded them to root out." - William L. Roberts, The Reformed Presbyterian Catechism (1853, emphases added), pp. 139-140, on the Puritan Hard Drive
Covenants and Covenanting (Introduction), by Greg Price (7 Free MP3s)
A Defense of Covenanting & the Solemn League & Covenant (21 FREE MP3s), by Greg Price (The definitive free audio series about covenanting!)
Covenanting In the Bible and In the Future (As Prophesied In Biblical Prophecy), By Pastor Jim Dodson, Pastor Greg Price and Pastor James Willson (Many Free SWRB MP3s, PDFs and Videos)
What Are Terms of Communion? What is Close Communion? What is Occasional Hearing? What Is Biblical Separation? By Pastor Greg Price and Dr. Michael Wagner (Free Covenanter MP3s)
Covenanter Terms of Communion (19 FREE MP3s), by Greg Price (An amazing series of messages!)
Free: Great Reformed Commentary on Revelation (David Steele's Note On the Apocalypse) and Much More!
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Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870), by David Steele (Free MP3s, Free Online Book, Printed Book, etc.)
Lectures Upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation (1814), by Alexander McLeod (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Book, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Text, DjVu)
Revelation Audio Commentary, by Pastor W.J. Mencarow (117 Free MP3s)
This series is a splendid overview of the history of Puritan and Reformed thought on Revelation, referencing many Reformation source documents. A great place to start if you are wondering what the book of Revelation is all about.
The Victory of the Reformation In History, Prophesied In Revelation (Classic Protestant Historicalism or Historicism In Prophesy), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Why Many More People Will Be Saved Than Lost: Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #20, Pauline Eschatology #2 (2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Etc.), by Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Scholar Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
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Christ Converting Nations (Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #17, Synoptic Gospels), by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
The Biblical Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards, Westminster Divines, Dr. F.N. Lee, David Steele & Others (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos, Books, PDFs, Etc.)
Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870) by David Steele (Free MP3s, Free Online Book, Printed Book, etc.)
Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Ministers Dr. Steven Dilday, W.J. Mencarow and Greg Price (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Etc.)
Postmillennialism (Free Reformation MP3s, Reformed Books & Puritan Quotes)
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Free: Best Reformed Commentaries, Sermons & Books On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Pastors W.J. Mencarow, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jim Dodson and Greg Price & Others (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Kindle, Etc.)
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Islam In The Bible, 1 of 2 (What The Book Of Revelation Foretells About The Muslims), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Islam In The Bible, 2 of 2 (What The Book Of Revelation Foretells About The Muslims), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
How The Church Of The Apostles Was Hijacked By Rome (A History Of Apostasy And The Growth Of Antichrist), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3) (Free MP3)
Biblical Prophecy, by Pastor Jim Dodson (44 Remarkable Free MP3s About Classic Reformation Eschatology)
Prophecies Of God Destroying His Enemies Throughout History & In The Days Before The Coming Millennium & Victory Of His Church, by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
The Lord Rejects Religious Toleration And Humanistic Egalitarianism: Letter To The Church At Pergamos, by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
The Symbol Of The Protestant Reformation (Classic Reformed Teaching/Doctrine On Biblical Prophecy/Eschatology & The Reformers!), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3)
Revelation Audio Commentary, by Dr. Steven Dilday (250+ Free MP3s To Revelation Chapter 11, With Much More To Come, Lord Willing, As Of This Writing)
If you are looking for a detailed contemporary Reformed audio commentary on Revelation, with much practical application, this is the best you will find.
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)
The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
Revelation and How Antichrist Gains A Foothold In the Church, In Your Heart and In Your Family by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free MP3)
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Now, Christians, the more great and glorious things you expect from God, as the downfall of antichrist, the conversion of the Jews, the conquest of the nations to Christ, the breaking of all yokes, the new Jerusalem's coming down from above, the extraordinary pouring out of the Spirit, and a more general union among all saints, the more holy, yea, the more eminently holy in all your ways and actings it becomes you to be. - Thomas Brooks, The Crown and Glory of Christianity, 1662, Complete Works (on the Puritan Hard Drive), 1867, p. 444
Many Antichrists? by Dr. Steven Dilday (5 Free MP3)
How Reformed Churches Imitate the Papal Antichrist, the 4th Trumpet Revelation, Etc. by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
Prophecy, Reformed Apologetics, Presuppositionalism, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, Gordon Clark and R.C. Sproul by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3,fourth item down at this link)
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 of the book of Revelation. See the 11 sermons that follow this sermon at "Revelation Audio Commentary by Dr. Steven Dilday" for much more detail about what the book of Revelation teaches about the rise and fall of Islam.
Christ Will Completely Destroy Islam As Prophesied In The Bible, Book Of Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
The Mystery of Iniquity Worketh by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
Commentary On Revelation, Part 3, Historicism, Preterism, Futurism, Idealism and Revelation 1 by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
PREMILLENNIALISM AND AMILLENNIALISM REFUTED FROM SCRIPTURE, BY MODERN DAY PURITAN MINISTER GREG PRICE (SWRB Blog)
Covenanting In the Bible and In the Future (As Prophesied In Biblical Prophecy) By Pastor Jim Dodson, Pastor Greg Price and Pastor James Willson (Many Free SWRB MP3s, PDFs and Videos)
FREE MP3s & PDFs: PRETERISM REFUTED - PARTIAL PRETERISM & FULL PRETERISM REFUTED - PASTOR GREG PRICE (SWRB Blog)
The Beast and False Prophet, Reformation Eschatology, By Greg Price (4 Free MP3s)
Who Is the Beast of Revelation and 666? By Greg Price (5 Free MP3s)
Reformation Historicism On 666 and the First, Sea, Beast Of Revelation 13 By Greg Price (4 Free MP3s)
Antichrist Unmistakably Revealed, by Pastor Greg Price, John Calvin, Dr. Steven Dilday, John Owen, W.J. Mencarow, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, George Gillespie, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, VIdeos and Books)
Identifying the Ten Horns In the Book of Revelation & the Little Horn, by Greg Price (Free MP3 & PDF)
Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom (1/2) by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Reformation Eschatology, The Millennium & the Victory of Christ's Kingdom (2/2) by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Israel Turns To Christ (1/2) The Restoration of the Jews by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Israel Turns To Christ (2/2) The Restoration of the Jews by Greg Price (Micah Series, Free MP3)
Commentary On the Westminster Confession of Faith by Jim Dodson (Ongoing Series, Free SWRB MP3s, Splendid Teaching On the Best Confession Of Faith Ever Written!)
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Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3); The 1,260 Days Of Revelation (The Year Day Theory In Classic Protestant Eschatological Thought and Scripture), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3); and the Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation
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Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 32, Revelation 10, Antichrist, the Great Apostasy by Jim Dodson (Free MP3 & PDF)
Biblical Prophecy & Postmillennialism 38, Revelation 16, The Great Apostasy Ending, Armageddon, Downfall of Antichrist, 666, Etc. by Jim Dodson(Free MP3 and PDF)
Precisely Identifying the Great Apostasy
Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Ministers Dr. Steven Dilday, W.J. Mencarow and Greg Price (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Etc.)
The Fall Of Babylon the Great & Covenanting, by Archibald Mason (Free MP3 Audio Book, PDF) & Related Resources
The Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Origins of Futurism and Preterism
Notes on the Apocalypse or A Commentary on the Book of Revelation (1870), by David Steele (Free MP3s, Free Online Book, Printed Book, etc.)
Lectures Upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation (1814) by Alexander McLeod (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Book, PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Daisy, Text, DjVu)
How Reformed Churches Imitate the Papal Antichrist, the Fourth Trumpet Of Revelation Solved, Classic Reformed Eschatology (Historicism), Etc., by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free Reformed MP3)
Mystery Babylon the Great (Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism 39, Revelation 17), by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
Postmillennialism and Revelation 20, by David Silversides (Free MP3)
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The Biblical Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards, Westminster Divines, Dr. F.N. Lee, David Steele & Others (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos, Books, PDFs, Etc.)
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History of Redemption (Salvation) #16: God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Jonathan Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards (Free SWRB MP3)
History of Redemption (Salvation) #15: God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards (Free SWRB MP3)
The Eschatology of Victory in the Old and New Testaments (and in History), by Dr. F.N. Lee
Prophecy Fulfillment In Scripture, by Jonathan Edwards, Dr. F.N. Lee, Greg Price, W.J. Mencarow, et al. (Free Reformed MP3s, Puritan Books and More!)
A HISTORY OF THE WORK OF REDEMPTION, by JONATHAN EDWARDS (All 16 Free MP3s, SWRB Digital Download, Etc.)
Jonathan Edwards On Revelation, The Overthrow Of Antichrist & the Eschatology Of Victory (Free MP3)
The Fall of Babylon the Great, by the Agency of Christ, and Through the Instrumentality of His Witnesses: In Four Discourses (1821) by Archibald Mason
History of Redemption (Salvation), God's Work, Creation To Judgment Day, With Edward's Postmillennial Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards (SWRB Digital Download)
Jonathan Edwards On Eschatology, Prophecy, the Last Days, Antichrist, and 666 (FreeMP3)
Islam (Muslims) Rise and Fall In Bible Prophecy, In the Book of Revelation
The Eschatology of George Gillespie (Westminster Divine): An Introductory Analysis and Evaluation, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free SWRB MP3)
Postmillennialism, By Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Rutherford (Westminster Divine), Thomas Brooks, et al.
Postmillennialism (44 Free Reformation MP3s, by Pastor Jim Dodson, scroll down to the link in the middle column: "More free MP3s and PDFs in Jim Dodson's Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism series". Defends Biblical [Reformation] Historicism and Postmillennialism from every book of the Bible and every chapter in Revelation! Outstanding exegesis that is extraordinarily edifying!)
Reformation, Restoration Prophets (23 Free SWRB MP3s, Classic Reformation Historicism and Postmillennialism), Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, by Pastor Jim Dodson
The Roman Catholic (Jesuit) Origins of Futurism and Preterism (Counter Reformation Heresies!)
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Puritan Postmillennialism, Reformation Eschatology (Historicism), and the Restoration Prophets: Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, by Pastor Jim Dodson (23 Free SWRB MP3s, Defends Classic Reformation Historicism and Postmillennialism, With Many Comments On Classic Reformation Worship, the Millennium, Christ's Witnesses, Martyr-Like Faithfulness, and Much More! )
The Lord Jesus Christ's Mediatorial Reign, He Is King Of Kings and Lord Of Lords
The Establishment Of Gospel, Reformation, Truth Over All Nations Before the Second Coming, by Pastor Jim Dodson (Free SWRB MP3)
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BEST FREE SERMONS ON UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION (12 FREE MP3s) - The Absolute Sovereignty of God (and Free Grace) In the Salvation of Unworthy and Helpless Sinners, By Dr. FERRELL GRISWOLD
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The Sovereignty of God, by Al Martin (17 Free MP3s)
An amazing series of messages focusing on the sovereignty of God in the Bible, by the man some consider the Spurgeon of our generation.
God's Absolute Sovereignty (Predestination) and Man's Full Responsibility and Free Agency (In the Bible) - Free Reformation Resources (MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.)
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"It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are truly and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus. By this truth I make my pilgrimage into the past, and as I go, I see father after father, confessor after confessor, martyr after martyr, standing up to shake hands with me ... Taking these things to be the standard of my faith, I see the land of the ancients peopled with my brethren; I behold multitudes who confess the same as I do, and acknowledge that this is the religion of God's own church." - Charles Spurgeon, Spurgeon's Sovereign Grace Sermons, Still Waters Revival Books, p. 170
THE DOCTRINE OF ABSOLUTE PREDESTINATION, BY JEROME ZANCHIUS (FREE SWRB AUDIO BOOK)
Charles Spurgeon: "To Deny Calvinism Is To Deny the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
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ARMINIANISM ANOTHER GOSPEL: JOHN CALVIN, CHARLES SPURGEON, JONATHAN EDWARDS, JOHN OWEN, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD AND OTHER CALVINISTS REFUTING THE HERESY OF ARMINIANISM. (FREE BOOK & FREE MP3s)
There Can Be No Compromise Between Calvinism and Arminianism, Refuting Arminian Heresy. by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)
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Charles Spurgeon: "What is the heresy of Rome, but the addition of something to the perfect merits of Jesus Christ--the bringing in of the works of the flesh, to assist in our justification? And what is the heresy of Arminianism but the addition of something to the work of the Redeemer? Every heresy, if brought to the touchstone, will discover itself here. I have my own private opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor." (C. H. Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 1, 1856)
Calvinism In the Early Church Fathers: Ignatius (Student of the Apostle John), Cyprian, Augustine, et al. (Free MP3s & More, By William Cunningham, Dr. Matthew McMahon, W.G.T. Shedd, Dr. Curt Daniel, John Calvin, Dr. Kenneth Talbot, Jerome Zanchius, et al.
A.W. Pink's Sovereignty of God (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Books and Other Formats)
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)
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 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
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.)
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)
Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy That Violates the Second and Fourth Commandments, and the Regulative Principle Of Worship
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.
The Vatican's Deal With Communist China and Globalist Tyrants: She Met With Pope Francis and Globalists at the Vatican and Now This Attorney Warns of Their Global Communist Agenda, Climate Change Being Used For These Satanic Purposes, Etc.
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God Is Sovereign Over Worship = The Regulative Principle Of Worship = Calvinism In Worship (and Refuting Heretical Arminianism In Worship)
Charles Spurgeon: "To Deny Calvinism Is To Deny the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
BEST FREE SERMONS ON UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION (12 FREE MP3s) - The Absolute Sovereignty of God (and Free Grace) In the Salvation of Unworthy and Helpless Sinners, By Dr. FERRELL GRISWOLD
Postmillennialism (Free Reformation MP3s, Puritan Books and Reformed Quotes), by Jonathan Edwards, John Murray, Samuel Rutherford, Dr. Steven Dilday, Iain Murray, Thomas Brooks, Greg Price, Pastor Jim Dodson, Dr. F.N. Lee, David Silversides and Others
The Biblical Eschatology of Victory, by Jonathan Edwards, Westminster Divines, Dr. F.N. Lee, David Steele & Others (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos, Books, Etc.)
Identifying the Great Apostasy, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3); The 1,260 Days Of Revelation (The Year Day Theory In Classic Protestant Eschatological Thought and Scripture), by W.J. Mencarow (Free MP3); and the Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation
John Flavel's Mystery of Providence (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free and Discounted Books Online, etc.), Puritan Quotes On Providence, and Many More Free Reformed Resources On Providence
The Antichrist (Man of Sin) and Interpretations of the Book of Revelation (Eschatology, Prophecy) Among the Early Church Fathers by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3s)
Why Many More People Will Be Saved Than Lost: Biblical Prophecy and Postmillennialism #20, Pauline Eschatology #2 (2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Etc.), by Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Scholar Jim Dodson (Free MP3 and PDF)
Imprecatory Prayer, Reprobation & God's Glory, With Other Free MP3 Sermons By Dr. Steven Dilday & Others
Prayer & Reformed Theology (93 Free MP3s On Prayer, Puritan Quotes On Prayer, Etc.)
Puritan (Westminster, Covenanter) Fast Sermons (1640 to 1653), Complete 34 Volume Set, by Many Prominent English Puritans, Westminster Divines and Scottish Covenanters of the Second Reformation (Including Rutherford, Watson, Owen, Manton, Gillespie) - Still Waters Revival Books
The Westminster Annotations and Commentary on the Whole Bible (Six Volume Set, 1657) Annotations Upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament: This Third, above the First and Second, Edition so enlarged, As they make an entire Commentary on the Sacred Scriptures: The like never before published in English. Wherein the Text is Explained, Doubts Resolved, Scripture Parallel'd, and Various Readings observed; By the Labour of certain Learned Divines thereunto appointed, and therein employed, As is expressed in the Preface
Free: Best Reformed Commentaries & Sermons On Revelation & Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Pastors W.J. Mencarow, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jim Dodson and Greg Price (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Kindle, Etc.)
God's Amazing and Awe-Inspiring Attributes In Scripture and the Westminster Confession Of Faith, With Practical Reformation Applications, By Dr. Steven Dilday (6 Free MP3s), Stephen Charnock, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon and Others
Puritan Quote: The Omniscience (Infinite Knowledge) of God, by Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)
"We glorify God by believing. ... Faith knows there are no impossibilities with God, and will trust him where it cannot trace him." - Thomas Watson, A Body of Divinity, p.12, On the Puritan Hard Drive
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John Calvin Quote: The Primacy Of Faithful Biblical Worship
JOHN OWEN QUOTE: PURITAN WORSHIP (WITH FREE MP3s BY JOHN OWEN, JOHN CALVIN, et al. ON BIBLICAL WORSHIP)
Why God Killed Nadab and Abihu For False Worship (Much Free On Biblical, Puritan and Reformed, Worship!)
Reformed Quotes By John Calvin, John Knox, The Westminster Assembly, Thomas Watson, John Flavel, William Perkins, David Steele, Dr. Reg Barrow, Greg Price and Others About Biblical (Reformed) Worship and Singing the Psalms, With Many Free Reformation Resources On Worship
Instrumental Music In Public Worship Quotes & Free Reformation Resources By John Calvin, The Westminster Assembly, John Knox, John Girardeau, Martyr, Chrysostom, Hislop, Barrow, Dilday, Dodson, Price, George, et al.
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