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John Calvin Against Corruption In Worship


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                   JOHN CALVIN

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

SHUNNING UNLAWFUL WORSHIP BY JOHN CALVIN (FREE SWRB MP3 AUDIO BOOK and FREE SWRB BOOK [TEXT] ONLINE)

  Take heed of all occasions of idolatry (violations of the second commandment - ed.), 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 (emphases added), on the Puritan Hard Drive


What's Wrong With Worship In Most Churches -- False Worship (Violations Of the Second Commandment or the Scriptural Law of Worship or the Regulative Principle of Worship) and Well Intentioned Idolatry Brings God's Wrath and Even Death, by Jim Dodson, John Owen and Others

CLICK HERE FOR  SOME OF THE BEST FREE TEACHING YOU WILL EVER HEAR ON PURITAN AND REFORMED WORSHIP (4 FREE MP3s, scroll down to this information)



 "Worship" offered that is contrary to God's command is devil worship (cf. 2 Chron. 11:15). - Jim Dodson

Foundation For Reformation: The Regulative Principle Of Worship - Greg L. Price (Free online book. Best short book on classic Reformed worship!) Jim Dodson Reformed Presbyterian Scholar

"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.


"Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." - Romans 16:17, KJV

Presbyterian Worship: Old and New by Kevin Reed
A Review and Commentary upon Worship in Spirit and Truth, a book by John Frame (a promoter of idolatry in worship). Kevin Reed shows how John Frame has abandoned the Reformation, both scripturally and confessionally, in regard to worship. He also gives an excellent summary of historic Reformed views and then contrasts them with the novel and idolatrous ideas now being touted by Frame.

If you want to understand Reformed theology (i.e., the whole counsel of God) the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. ... There is no other resource, outside Scripture itself, where you can find so much of God's truth as in the Puritan Hard Drive. - Pastor Greg Price (Covenanter Author and Theologian)

Top Ten Puritan Hard Drive Reviews (So Far)


Gradual Reformation Intolerable: Luther and Calvin On Reforming the Church Against False Teaching and False Worship, By Dr. Matthew McMahon, Greg Price, Dr. Steven Dilday, Brian Schwertley & Others (Free)


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Classic Reformed Worship, What Is It? by John Knox, John Calvin, Greg Price, Samuel Rutherford, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Jim Dodson, David Steele, Kevin Reed, George Gillespie, John McNaugher, W.J. Mencarow, Dr. Reg Barrow, and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Books)


Classic Reformed Worship, What Is It? by John Knox, John Calvin, Greg Price, Samuel Rutherford, Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Jim Dodson, David Steele, Kevin Reed, George Gillespie, John McNaugher, W.J. Mencarow, Dr. Reg Barrow, and Others (Free MP3s, Videos, Books)


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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 that still fancy being known as Reformed.

 

Presbyterian Worship: Old and New by Kevin Reed

A Review and Commentary upon Worship in Spirit and Truth,a book by John Frame. Reed shows how Frame has abandoned the Reformation, both scripturally and confessionally, in regard to worship. He also gives an excellent summary of historic Reformed views and then contrasts them with the novel ideas now being touted by Frame.

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The Vain Worship Of Hypocrites and How False Worship Destroys Nations Under God's Wrath By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, Greg Price, John Knox, Kevin Reed, Westminster Divines, Dr. Steven Dilday, Thomas Watson 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, et al.

 

JAMES JORDAN'S LITURGICAL ANTINOMIANISM - THE ROMANIZING VIEWS OF JAMES JORDAN (John Frame, Doug Wilson, Jeff Meyers, Steve Schlissel, et al.) ON WORSHIP AND HIS INTERPRETIVE MAXIMALISM REFUTED  

 

Puritan Worship Series by Greg Price, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, John Girardeau, David Steele, John McNaugher and Others (57 Free MP3s) 

Singing the Psalms With Jesus and the Idols (Man Made Hymns) of John and Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts, the Trinity Hymnal, Fanny Crosby, and Others By Jim Dodson, John Calvin, W.J. Mencarow, Westminster Divines, Greg Price, Dr. Reg Barrow, et al.

Jim Dodson's Ye That Love the Lord, Hate Evil (Psalm 97:10) and God's Temporal Judgments Are Signs Of Everlasting Hell To Come For All Who Are Not Christians (Free MP3), With Related Free Reformation Resources About Hell, God's Wrath, Etc

False Doctrine and Heresy Are Great Sins, and Judgments From God, By Robert Baillie (Westminster Divine), John Brown of Haddington, Jim Dodson, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), Greg Price and Others (Free MP3s, Books, Videos, Etc.)

Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechism Commentaries by Jim Dodson, the Westminster Divines, Thomas Watson, Thomas Boston, Thomas Ridgeley and Others (Free MP3s, Books, Videos, Etc.) (See the material on the second and fourth commandments)

Are Easter, Christmas, Other Popish/Pagan Holy Days (Not Authorized In the Bible), Man-Made Hymns and Musical Instruments In Worship, Etc., Idols? - According To the Classic Reformed View Of The Second Commandment (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos, Books)

A Refutation of Religious Pluralism by John Brown of Haddington and Greg Price (Free MP3 Audio Book, Free Online Text, Kindle, PDF Books, etc.)

                         
 

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"For nothing is more wicked than to contrive various modes of worship without the authority of the word of God." - John Calvin, Commentary On John

  

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Why Is Reformed Worship So Important? (1 of 2) The Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers & The Regulative Principle Of Worship (RPW) by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)

Dr. Steven Dilday Reviews & Recommends the Puritan Hard Drive

An excellent introductory treatment of classic Reformed teaching about the regulative principle of worship (or what is sometimes called "the Scriptural law of worship"). Contrasts biblical Reformed teaching about worship with Lutheran, Roman Catholic, etc., errors and superstitions.

 

JOHN KNOX ON THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP

 

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, emphases added (Free Online Book)

 

250x250-Faded-Silversides-Quote Why Is Reformed Worship So Important? (2 of 2) The Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers & The Regulative Principle Of Worship (RPW) by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)

 

Regulative Principle of Worship in the New Testament (Free MP3 About The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series)

 

Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (Free MP3 About The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series)

 

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,

A Golden Chain, or the Description of Theology

 
Many more free Reformation resources follow the loan offer below.

SHUNNING UNLAWFUL WORSHIP BY JOHN CALVIN (FREE MP3 AUDIO BOOK)

 

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Against Antichrist's Innovations In Worship (Free Reformation MP3s, Videos & Books)

 

Reformed Worship & Singing the Psalms (Free MP3s)

 

Christmas Is A Roman Catholic Missions Strategy (Free Reformation Resources & Quotes)

Calvinism, or the Sovereignty of God, in Worship (Free Online Books Against Arminianism In Worship)

 

FREE VIDEO: Regulative Principle of Worship in the New Testament (Second Commandment In Worship) by Greg Price

 

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Gradual Reformation Intolerable: Luther & Calvin On Reforming the Church Against False Teaching and False Worship By Dr. Matthew McMahon, Greg Price, Dr. Steven Dilday, Brian Schwertley & Others (Free)

A Warning Against Backsliding, False Worship and False Teachers by John Flavel, John Calvin, Greg Price, Samuel Rutherford, Greg Barrow, George Gillespie, Dr. Reg Barrow & Others (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)

Biblical Worship by Brian Schwertley (Many Free Books, MP3s & Video)

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)

The Puritans On Exclusive Psalmody (Free MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.)

Why God Hates Easter, One Of the Papal Antichrist's Obligatory High Holy Days by Brian Schwertley, Greg Price, William Perkins, Dr. Dilday, Dr. McMahon, Kevin Reed, (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)

Corrupt Worship & God's Anger With the Church and the Nations, Or, A Commentary On Micah By Greg Price (23 Free MP3s)

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The Preaching of the Puritans by Dr. Joel Beeke, Jonathan Edwards, Greg Price, Charles Spurgeon, Al Martin, A.W. Pink, Dr. Dilday, Charles Bridges, R.L. Dabney, Richard Baxter, et al. (Free MP3s, Videos, etc.)

Cutting Off Your Personal Idols by Michael Bruce (Free MP3), Soul Idolatry Excludes Men Out of Heaven by David Clarkson (PDF, Printed Book) & More

Biblical Worship: The Regulative Principle of Worship in History by Dr. Reg Barrow

Christmas Condemned By Christ (1/3) Puritan Teaching On Roman Catholic Holy Days by Greg Price

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Christmass Condemned By Christ 2/3 Puritan & Reformation Teaching On Roman Catholic

(Antichrist)/Pagan Holy Days (Easter Too) by Greg Price

Christmass Condemned By Christ 3/3 Puritan & Reformation Teaching On Roman Catholic

The Regulative Principle of Worship in the Old Testament (The Second Commandment In Covenanter, Puritan and Reformation Worship) by Greg Price (Puritan Worship Series).

Sola Scriptura And the Regulative Principle of Worship by Brian Schwertley

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PASTOR GREG L. PRICE REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE

  

Pastor Greg Price Reviews & Recommends the Puritan Hard Drive "I was one of those who had profited much from using the plethora of out-of-print Reformation materials offered by Still Waters Revival Books in the 62 CDs (Puritan CDs and Reformation CDs) for a number of years in  my ministry -- works that I could only have found in select libraries (usually hundreds of miles away from my residence).

 

With the CDs, it took a little while to go to the index of each set, locate the documents I needed, and then find the correct CD. Of course, the time was always well spent in finding that particular document that I needed.

 

However, now that I have the Puritan Hard Drive, I am able to use my time much more efficiently in finding that particular document I need by quickly searching for it and finding it in a matter of seconds. It's like going from "dial up" to "high-speed" Internet!

 

And for all of those documents that have a font that are in block letters, I am able to simply cut and paste from the Puritan Hard Drive to my own document with ease.

 

Amazing surprises do come in small packages!

 

If you want to understand Reformed theology (i.e., the whole counsel of God) the Puritan Hard Drive is unsurpassed, outside the Bible itself. The First and Second Reformations gave us the most faithful Scriptural teaching and preaching since the time of the Apostles, and there is no other resource, outside Scripture itself, where you can find so much of God's truth as in the Puritan Hard Drive.

 

May the Lord continue to use this most profitable tool to promote a Third Reformation that encompasses the whole world (Isaiah 2:2-4)!"

 

- Greg L. Price (Author, Theologian, Covenanted Presbyterian Pastor, USA) Free online books, MP3s and videos by Greg Price and at Sermonaudio (SWRB considers Greg Price to be the most doctrinally sound preacher alive today, because he holds completely to the original Westminster Standards and all the biblical attainments of the Second or Covenanted Reformation.) 

 

"Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing." - Philippians 3:16, which applies just as much to the family, the church and the state, as it does to the individual.

 

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PASTOR W. J. MENCAROW REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE  

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Nothing like it has ever been available before!

If you don't have it you are almost certainly not learning as much as you could about God, or growing in grace at a pace that the Puritan Hard Drive, by the grace of God, facilitates.

There is no other way to get such easy, convenient and inexpensive access to so many great works from the best Reformation and Puritan preachers and teachers, past and present --  and the study software on the Puritan Hard Drive is out of this world in terms of usefulness!

If necessary, sell what you have (that does not draw you closer to God) to get the Puritan Hard Drive, and prayerfully use it until you become, by the Lord's sovereign and sanctifying grace, the most extraordinary Christian you can be (for His glory!)."

- W.J. Mencarow (Author, Pastor of Reformation Church, Boerne, Texas [San Antonio area] with free MP3 sermons on Sermonaudio

Editor of The Paper Source Journal, etc. Pastor Mencarow has also been interviewed on numerous radio and TV programs (including "Good Morning America"), most networks and in major U.S. newspapers and magazines.  We also recommend that you listen to what may be the best audio commentary ever recorded, on the book of Revelation, by W.J. Mencarow (100+ free MP3s as of this writing), on Sermonaudio.

DR. C. MATTHEW McMAHON REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE


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It holds some of the most priceless Reformed works of God-centered and Christ-glorifying truth that were ever penned.

 

Most students, ministers and scholars of the Bible would never personally acquire even half the literal number of books on the Puritan Hard Drive, much less the extreme caliber of its contents.

 

In God's providence modern day Christians have been chosen to be the recipients of both a theological and practical blessing. May we not squander it."

 
- Matthew McMahon, Ph.D.
, A Puritan's Mind (Pastor, Author, Seminary Professor, etc.) Over 200 free MP3s by Dr. McMahon are free online at Sermonaudio.

 

DR. STEVEN DILDAY REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDS THE PURITAN HARD DRIVE

Dr. Steven Dilday Reviews & Recommends the Puritan Hard Drive "For a number of years now, I have followed, and benefited from, the work of Still Waters Revival Books, particularly the Reformation and Puritan Bookshelf CD sets... and now the Puritan Hard Drive.

The Puritan Hard Drive is a remarkable accomplishment!

The common Christian can now have a world-class Presbyterian and Reformed library at his fingertips, for only pennies per volume.

I do not think that it is an exaggeration to say that the Puritan Hard Drive presents an historic and singular opportunity.

The works on the Puritan Hard Drive have been invaluable to me in sermon preparation and in improving personal and familial piety. If these had been the only blessings attached to the reading of these documents, the expense (even if it had been much greater) would have been justified; but there is more here.

In this present time, a great many Presbyterians (particularly in North America) have forgotten and implicitly (perhaps unwittingly) rejected their Presbyterian heritage. Strangely, Westminster confessing churches have rejected the theological distinctives of the Westminster Standards.

Although the Westminster Assembly produced a beautiful statement of soteriological Calvinism, the histories clearly demonstrate that soteriology was not the principle focus, nor chief interest, of the Assembly. The Westminster Assembly was primarily concerned with uniformity in worship (in accordance with the Regulative Principle), the form of church government (Presbyterianism jus divinum), and Church-State relations (the Establishment Principle). It is a sad irony that the great and distinctive attainments of the Westminster Assembly have been ignored and rejected by so many Westminster confessing churches.

However, we may yet entertain the hope that these great attainments are rejected largely because of ignorance. The best books on these subjects have not been readily available; but (thanks be to God) they are available again on the Puritan Hard Drive.

For anyone interested in recovering our Presbyterian and Reformed past, the Puritan Hard Drive is a must.

It is my hope and prayer that the Puritan Hard Drive will be used by God to bring to light the things that were hidden, to call to remembrance the things that were forgotten."

- Dr. Steven Dilday, Pastor (free MP3 sermons online at https://www.sermonaudio.com/PRCNOVA). Dr. Dilday is currently translating (from Latin to English) the "Synopsis" written by the Puritan Divine, Matthew Poole. This project when completed will consist of approximately 82 volumes. Many free MP3s messages by Dr. Dilday are also at: HISTORY OF HOLY DAYS (CHRISTMAS, EASTER, CHRISTIAN SABBATH, JEWS, etc.), IDOLATRY, ICONOCLASM, etc., The History of the Service of Song: Real Reformation, Faithful Worship And Praising The Lord Jesus Christ Through Songs by Dr. Steven Dilday and a collection of some of Dr. Dilday's most important messages at Sermonaudio.

 

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"The Puritan Hard Drive has been such a superb blessing to me personally and for my ministry, that I lack words to adequately praise the Lord! " - Richard Bennett (former Roman Catholic priest who now preaches Reformation truth), Berean Beacon

  

 

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