by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
Chapter 28 of the WCF: I. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
Ultimately, even the present day Presbyterian is ‘reforming’ back to the bible; sadly, what we hold dear is not what Westminster held-it is a ‘deformed’ understanding. We are much closer than the ‘Particulars’, obviously, but not...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
“The Westminster Assembly instructed the Houses of Parliament to see that Anabaptist and Antinomian errorists were restrained:[…] (4) That all Ministers who teach or divulge, Baptizing of Infants to bee unlawful, The Morall law to be no rule for a Christian to...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
The Westminster Assembly instructed the Houses of Parliament to see that Anabaptist and Antinomian errorists were restrained: […] (4) That all Ministers who teach or divulge, Baptizing of Infants to bee unlawful, The Morall law to be no rule for a Christian to...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
John Calvin regarded the Anabaptist notion of re-baptism as a great evil:[W]e are baptised only once, and if we return for a second baptism, this is in effect wishing to negate the true baptism which was ordained by God […]John Calvin, Sermons on 2 Samuel:...