by Scott Bushey | Sep 24, 2014 | miscellaneous
1853 PCUSA General Assembly resolution that was quoted by Peck approvingly in a pastoral letter on the Sabbath. The resolution stated: “Resolved, That the proper observance of the Christian Sabbath is essential alike to the purity and progress of the church, and...
by Scott Bushey | Sep 22, 2014 | miscellaneous
More wisdom from Thomas Watson: “Confession purges out sin. Augustine called it “the expeller of vice”. Sin is bad blood; confession is like the opening of a vein to let it out. Confession is like the dung-gate, through which all the filth of the...
by Scott Bushey | Sep 17, 2014 | miscellaneous
Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath; Jesus is fully God and can do whatever He wants with His creation. The Lord’s day and the 4th commandment are not at odds w/ each other-they are the same. Much like God’s character, the commands of God are perpetual and...
by Scott Bushey | Sep 15, 2014 | miscellaneous
This is the order of things on the part of Adam:– (1.) Paraptoma, the one sin; (2.) Krima, the guilt that thereon ensued unto all; (3.) Katakrima, the condemnation which that guilt deserved. And their “antitheta,” or opposites, in the second Adam...
by Scott Bushey | Sep 14, 2014 | miscellaneous
“All men who read and hear the gospel contained in the Scriptures, are called to the fellowship of Christ, and to receive a full salvation in him, as the free gift of God to themselves. The law, which manifests our sinfulness and danger, and warns us to flee from the...
