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Thoughts from some great reformers on national covenanting
WLC: Q. 191. What do we pray for in the second petition? A. In the second petition, (which is,*Thy kingdom come) acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan, we pray, that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed,...
Foolstide?
"Puritans saved their greatest contempt for Christmas. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they successfully prevented any significant celebrations of it. 'Foolstide,' as they called December 25, aroused their special ire for a variety of reasons. In...
Remarriage is adultery…..
So much can be said of this doctrine. Remarriage is illicit unless there is adultery, one dies or 'the unbeliever leaves'. Moses permitted divorce, 'for hardness of heart'....but from the beginning, it was not so'. This is known as the 'except' clause. Everything has...
Wine and the Talmud….
Dr. Jack Lewis states: “Wine was ordinarily used at the Passover and is called ‘fruit of the vine’ in Berakoth 6:1” (1976, 147; for an extended discussion, see Lightfoot 1979, 346ff). Berakoth 6:1 Berakhot, Chapter Six, Mishnah One Introduction According to halakhah...
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