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:...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant. Genesis 17:14. The Westminster Confession teaches that ‘it is a great sin to contemn or neglect’ the ordinance of baptism...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 23, 2014 | miscellaneous
That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, Church Government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellours and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other Ecclesiasticall...
by Scott Bushey | Mar 17, 2014 | miscellaneous
David J. Engelsma, The Sixteenth-Century Reformation of the Church, p. 63: It is, however, the urgency of the conflict of the Reformed faith with Anabaptism in our day that needs to be sounded and appreciated. If one thinks only of the physical descendants of the...
