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RICHARD
Calvin
and the Sabbath: The Controversy of Applying the Fourth Commandment
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Dr. Dad: Random Thoughts on the
Status of Fatherhood in Modern America
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GANZ,
RICHARD
20 Controversies That Almost
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GANZ,
RICHARD
Free Indeed: Escaping Bondage
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GANZ, RICHARD
Psychobabble: The Failure of
Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative
In chapter one, Dr. Ganz
writes,
"My goal in this book is to
help readers understand that the counseling concepts woven into psychoanalysis
(and its secular psychotherapeutic offshoots) are inherently opposed to the
Word of God. My approach will be to reveal the direct conflict between secular
philosophies and Biblical principles and to strip back to its ugly roots the
psychotherapy that the church has baptized and embraced. My hope is that the
church will stop shuffling her hurting and broken members to the
"experts" who lack the power and perspective of the Word of God, that
pastors will instead seize the opportunities to teach, rebuke, correct, and
train in righteousness a people fit for service to King Jesus."
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and exposes their feet of clay. For those who have wondered whether the
integration of secular psychotherapy with the revelation of God in the Bible is
possible--here is your answer."
-Dr. Jay Adams, professor, Westminster Theological Seminary
"Here is a solid Biblical
approach to counseling from somebody who has seen it from both the
psychological and Biblical sides. Anyone who does Biblical counseling should
read this book."
-Dr. John F. MacArthur, Jr., pastor, author of
Ashamed of the Gospel
"Why is it many evangelical
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emotionally troubled members off to the closest therapist? Both church leaders
and lay persons seem to believe that the psychological "experts" have
the answers for the wounded hearts and souls of God's people. And when churches
do offer counseling, it often is tinged with the secular psychology and
psychotherapy that have infiltrated the church.
Psychobabble explains the dichotomy between
secular and Biblical counseling and shows the danger of incorporating secular
techniques into a Christian approach. This book will arm believers looking for
Scriptural answers to the hurts of a broken world. As anti-Christian bias becomes
increasingly pervasive in secular psychology, the church must look to the true
source of all healing. This book will point the way." (Back cover).
Readers
comments:
Excellent Book About Biblical
Counseling
Ganz's book has shown me that
pursuing a higher degree in the field in which I already have an undergraduate
degree, namely psychology, would be futile. I always felt that the line between
"Christian" psychology and secular psychology was very blurred;
nevertheless, Ganz has confirmed my belief that God's Word is sufficient for
such needs. Why run to the world for answers when we serve the Prince of Peace?
There is so much in God's Word that confirms Ganz's position about Biblical
counseling. I feel that his position on this subject is timely as many
Christians have compromised with the world in this area. It is time for us to
believe what God says in His Word. "Do not be anxious for
anything..." (Phil. 4:6-7). (From Augusta, Georgia United States).
I've been on both sides of the
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believed that the two could coexist; however, I was wrong despite my sincerity.
Psychobabble: The Failure of Modern Psychology and the Biblical Alternative
opened my eyes. Richard Ganz shows his readers that Psychology and Christianity
cannot be united. Throughout this book Ganz shares insights from his own
personal journey, and encourages his readers to take a bold stance for Christ.
This is a book that confronts modern psychotherapy with the Word of God. Within
its pages we see Ganz cutting away the fluff of this "feel good"
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for ever need. (From Wake Forest, North Carolina).
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members, sit back and read. You can easily read this book in a few sittings and
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GANZ,
RICHARD
Secret of Self Control
A longtime Christian counselor suggests a new, practical and powerful approach
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Holy Spirit. Prepare yourself for a study that is at once challenging and
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The Constitutional Documents
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This period of time and thought had great bearing on the foundations of many
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GATAKER,
THOMAS
The
Christian Man's Care, A sermon on Matt 6:33, together with a short catechism
for the simpler sort. 1624.
Thomas Gataker was
a well-known seventeenth century English Puritan minister, and a member of the
famous Westminster Assembly of Divines. There is a 19 page section on Gataker in Thomas Smith's
book "Select Memoirs of the Lives, Labours, and Sufferings, of Those Pious
and Learned English and Scottish Divines..." (http://www.swrb.com/catalog/S.htm). Smith writes that Gataker's
"house was a private seminary, where both Englishmen and foreigners
resorted, and lodged for the benefit of his instructions. His extensive
learning and talents were admired by the great men of his time, both at home
and abroad, with many of whom he held a regular correspondence" (p. 524). His writing was so respected that "The celebrated
Hermanus Witsius collected and published, in one volume, the whole of Mr
Gataker's critical works in the year 1689" (p. 526).
This soul-stirring
message is a challenge for people to make spiritual affairs the highest
priority in their lives.
God will take care of all the needs of those who will put Him and His cause
first in their lives. Serving and obeying the Lord should be foremost in the
lives of all Christians. "Their first and principal care should be for the
principal things, that is, for spiritual things, for God's Kingdom and His
righteousness, for sanctification and true holiness. These are the things that
most nearly concern them; and without which they can have no benefit of ought
else. And these are the things that God would have them most to look after: As
for other things, when we have so done, He would have us leave the care of them
wholly to Him" (pp. 44-45).
"Again, spiritual things God would have to be esteemed
as the principal, and to be set in the first place; and temporal things to be
reckoned of as secondary matters, as things accessory unto them.
Whereas worldly men generally take a direct contrary course. They set the cart,
as we say, before the horse. They make Sarah tend on Hagar; the mistress wait
on the hand-maid. They make the principal the accessory, and the accessory the
principal. Take most pains in that, that God would have them to take least in;
and take least pains in that, that God would have them to take most in. First
God's Kingdom and His righteousness, saith Christ, and then riches or those
other things, meat, drink, and apparel. But first riches, saith the World,
moneys and means of maintenance, (for these must be had howsoever) and then
religion and righteousness may a little, time enough, be looked after, when we
are once furnished of the former" (p. 46).
Christ tells us to
put His Kingdom first, and then the necessities of life will be supplied by
God. It is because
Christians ignore this fact that they put worldly concerns first in their
lives. "For why do men neglect to look after God's Kingdom? Forsooth,
because they must build their houses, they must feather their nests first: they
must get something that may be a stay to them hereafter, that they may be able
to defend the world withall. To remove therefore this rubbe, and to rid and
ease men of this care, our Saviour here telleth them, that upon the due seeking
of God's Kingdom and His righteousness, or the righteousness thereof, (for all
commeth to one effect) all these things that men so much desire and look after,
and take so much thought and care for, shall be by God Himself provided for
them, supplied unto them, and cast in thereupon as an advantage thereunto"
(p. 42).
This book provides
powerful encouragement for Christians to put God and His Kingdom first in their
lives. It also contains
a brief and very basic catechism after the sermon.
69 pages.
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GAUSSEN,
L.
Theopneustia:
The Plenary Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures (1854)
"Theopneustia,"
borrowed from Paul, carries with it the idea of divine or verbal inspiration
and thus this book defends the Bible as God's
inspired word (dealing with many evasions and objections to this foundational
doctrine of Christianity). Gordon Clark once commented that this
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GAVIN,
ANTHONY
The
Great Red Dragon; Or the Master-Key to Popery (1854)
Gavin was "formerly one of the Roman Catholic priests of Saragossa,
Spain." This book was first published in 1724, and tells of Gavin's experiences in the late 1600s and early
1700s. In the preface Gavin notes that he feared for his life upon
the publication of the book,
as "the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus" (Rev. 17:6) continued to fill her ordained role in
history, as a persecuting menace to the witnesses for God's truth. This book contains a detailed exhibition of the
harlotries of Rome -- from a former insider -- as well as much information that
is no longer readily available on the wickedness of the man of sin
"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that
is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself
that he is God" (2 Thes. 2:4). 408 pages.
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A History of Popery (1848)
The title continues: "Giving a Full Account of All the Customs of the
Priests and Friars, and the Rites and Ceremonies of the Papal Church. Also, An
Account of the Inquisition at Goa and Macerata, Summary of the Roman Catholic
Faith, the Preservative Against Popery, Together with a History of Papacy in
the United States, to the Present Time." This book provides an antidote to
all the major poisons of Popery to the author's day -- though the Romanists
have since concocted additional deadly antichristian toxins with which to
pollute to the church and contaminate history. Some of what is revealed by this
former Priest, such as "the Pope's joy at the murder of Protestants,"
will no doubt shock the modern reader, but such knowledge is indispensable in
the battle against this beast. Sections on the order of the Jesuits in the
United States and contradictions in Trent (which binds Romanists to our day)
will also supply ammunition to the reader, as we look forward to that blessed
time announced by the heavenly voice, when "her plagues come in one day,
death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for
strong is the Lord God who judgeth her" (Rev. 18:8). 427 pages.
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This is the New Testament
containing marginal notes which were heavily influenced by John Calvin, John
Knox, and many other leaders of the Reformation. The Geneva Bible was the
predominant English translation during the period in which the English and
Scottish Reformations gained great impetus. Iain Murray, in his classic work on
revival and the interpretation of prophecy, The Puritan Hope ($16.95), notes that, "... the two
groups in England and Scotland developed along parallel lines, like two streams
originating at one fountain. The fountain was not so much Geneva, as the Bible
which the exiles newly translated and issued with many marginal notes... it was
read in every Presbyterian and Puritan home in both realms" (p. 7). This
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popularity among the faithful is obvious: the marginal notes promoted a
full-orbed, nation-changing Protestantism! This 1602 New Testament edition
contains no Psalter and thus parallels the original 1560 edition on this count
-- though a Psalter was added by the English [London] printers to the 1599 Geneva Bible (listed below).
This edition also includes four introductory essays.
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Genesis by
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Commentary
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GEORGE,
R.J.
The
Badge of Popery: Musical Instruments in Public Worship
Explains from Scripture, Protestant
history, and the Presbyterian standards why the Reformers termed the use of
musical instruments in public worship "the badge of Popery." Also appended is a large section defending exclusive Psalmody. This is an easy-reading
introduction to these subjects setting forth the historic Presbyterian and
Reformed understanding of biblically regulated worship. 74 pages. NOTE: The section on
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The Covenanter Vision
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nature of the covenants and covenant obligation. Gives a history of the
covenants and shows the basis of covenanting. A good introductory study of
covenants and covenanting.
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Close Communion
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Theory; 2. The Visible Discipleship Theory; 3. The Restricted Communion Theory;
4. The Occasional Communion Theory; and 5. the Close Communion Theory. Shows
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Church fellowship and answers objections to the doctrine of close communion. An
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Political Dissent
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example by defending Covenanter dissent and separation from the constitution
and government of the United States (while also demonstrating the Biblical
grounds for such a position). Upholds the absolute Kingship of Christ, laying
out the straight and narrow path, regarding civil government, that has been
trod by faithful Reformers of the past.
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Secret Societies
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destructive to the church, state and family.
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The Public Worship of God:
Its Authority and Modes, Hymns and Hymn Books (1868)
Gibson was Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History at Free Church
College in Glasgow. Written to promote the glory of God and the purity of His
worship. The chapters deal with Praise, Public Worship, Alleged Authority for
Human Hymns, Historical Argument for Human Hymns, How Hymn Books Were
Introduced into Public Worship, Instrumental Music, and a Review of Hymnbooks.
An important book given the fact that, "[t]he public worship of a church
is a decisive measure of its true spiritual condition" (Kevin Reed, John
Knox the Forgotten Reformer [on the new PHP CD, $98.98], Presbyterian Heritage
Publications, p. 79).
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Marriage Affinity Question:
or, Marriage to the Sister of a Deceased Wife Fully Discussed, in the Light of
History, Ecclesiastical and Civil Law, Scripture, Reason, and Expediency (1854)
A fascinating work which upholds many general Scriptural principles brought to
light at the Reformation; while also dealing with the specific questions at
issue. Over 200 pages.
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The Vindication of Mr. James
Gilchrist (1716)
A defense of separation from the backsliding Church of Scotland, by a
contemporary of John MacMillan -- based on biblical and covenanted
Reformation attainments and principles.
48 pages.
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Why Do You Wear It? Or, The
Fashionable Professor (1858)
Answers four questions. 1. "What is the mind of Christ with respect to
Christian adorning their persons with jewelry, and gay and costly attire?"
2. "What is the effect of such adorning upon the individual?" 3.
"What is the effect on the church?" 4. "What is the effect upon
the world?" 128 pages.
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GILFILLAN,
JAMES
The
Sabbath Viewed in the Light of Reason, Revelation, and History, with Sketches
of Its Literature (1882)
A massive and thorough book
which covers so much ground that it is almost impossible to do justice to it in
a short book summary. We will simply say that if you
are interested in any aspect of the Sabbath question you will almost certainly
find much help here. Major heads include:
"Sketches of Sabbatic Controversies and Literature;" "Proofs,
From Reason and Experience, of the Excellence and Divine Origin of the
Sabbath;" "Testimony of Revelation to a Sacred and Perpetual
Sabbath;" "Evidence from History for a Weekly Day of Rest and
Worship;" "The Sabbath Defended Against Opposing Arguments, Theories,
and Schemes;" "The Claims of the Sabbath Practically Enforced."
Includes a general index and an index of texts. 635 pages.
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GILPIN,
RICHARD
Demonologia
Sacra. Or, A Treatise of Satan's Temptations: In Three Parts (1677)
The First Part
(175 pages)
Gilpin writes in great depth
about the work of Satan in the world. His primary
focus is on Satan's strategy and tactics for keeping people away from God and
their spiritual duties. But he also deals with the reality of Satan
and his demons, and the actual power that they have. For example, he notes that
genuine witchcraft receives its power from Satan. "The real Effects done
by the Power of Witchcraft, show it not to be Delusion: Such are the
Transportation of Persons many miles from their Habitations, and leaving them
there; their telling things done in remote Places; raising of Storms and
Tempests, Vomiting of Pins, Needles, Stones, Cloth, Leather, and such like, and
these some of them attested by sober and intelligent Persons who were
Eye-witnesses (p. 32)."
Satan acts in less
conspicuous ways to divert Christians away from spiritual things. When "he foresees our Advantages or
Mercies, he bestirs himself to prevent or hinder us of them; if Ministers set
themselves to study and preach Truths that are more piercing, weighty or
necessary, they may observe more molestations, interruptions, or
discouragements of all sorts, than when they less concern themselves with the
business of the souls of men. He foresees what Sermons are provided, and often
doth he upon such foresight endeavour to turn off those from hearing, that have
most need, and are most likely to receive benefit by them (p. 56)."
Gilpin points
out that Satan knows each person's weaknesses, and devises temptations for
people that will be most difficult for them to resist (p. 72). Satan is able to influence other people, including friends
and relatives, to encourage us to do things that will ultimately prove harmful
to us spiritually (p. 74). He has many tactics to keep people away from
spiritual light. Among them is the attempt "to draw on a hatred against
the Light, by raising in the minds of Men a prejudice against the person that
brings or offers it: if he that warns or reproves, express himself any thing
warmly, or cuttingly against his brother's Sin, this the Devil presently makes
use of; and those that are concerned think they have a just cause to stop their
ears, and harden their necks, because they conceive, that anger, or ill-will,
or some such base thing did dictate those (though just) rebukes (p. 113)."
The Second Part
(246 pages)
This part covers two main
themes: Satan's efforts at corrupting men's minds
with errors, and his efforts to disturb the peace and comfort of Christians.
Many different tactics are used by Satan in each instance. For example, Gilpin
notes that "Men are soon persuaded to take that for Truth which they see
will be advantageous to them (p. 264)." An
example of his manner of disturbing Christians is over-scrupulousness.
Gilpin refers to this as "scrupulosity of Conscience. Satan vexeth the
Conscience and distracteth the Mind, by raising up needless groundless fears
concerning a Man's Practice (p. 329)."
The Third Part
(216 pages)
The final part consists of Gilpin's careful analysis of Satan's temptation of
Christ in Matthew 4. Gilpin points out the various tactics used by
Satan against Christ, and shows that these are the very tactics that Satan
still uses today against Christians. One temptation
he notes in particular is the temptation to doubt God's goodness due to
unfavourable providences. When we encounter a bad situation in our
lives, we are tempted to distrust God. If we fall into this temptation, instead
of trusting the Lord to work things out, we can be led to try to remedy the
situation by our own means (apart from God), and thereby easily fall into a
sinful course.
"Satan is not discouraged
easily, nor doth he always desist upon the first repulse, but frequently renews
the assault, when he is strongly and resolutely resisted (p. 90)."
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The Cause of God and Truth
An exegetical work on the five points of Calvinism and reprobation. The Preface
states that "this work was published at a time when the nation was greatly
alarmed with the growth of Popery," and that rather than just
"lopping off the branches of Popery, the axe should be laid to the root of
the tree, Arminianism and Pelagianism, the very life and soul of Popery."
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The remainder of the title
reads: "So as the Present Erastian Controversy Concerning the Distinction
of Civil and Ecclesiastical Government, Excommunication and Suspension, is
Fully Debated and Discussed, from the Holy Scriptures, for the Jewish and
Christian Antiquities, from the Consent of Later Writers, from the True Nature
and Rights of Magistracy, and from the Groundlessness of the Chief Objections
made Against the Presbyterial Government, in Point of a Domineering Arbitrary
Unlimited Power." In short, this book deals with the biblical view of the
separation of church and state, and is especially pertinent concerning the
modern political climate, in which the old Erastian tree of civil
ecclesiastical interference is growing strong and spreading much poisonous
fruit. As with just about everything else Gillespie wrote, this book has been
widely recognized as THE classic in its field.
Three major sections cover "Of the Jewish Church Government;"
"Of Christian Church Government;" and "Of Excommunication from
the Church, and of Suspension from the Lord's Table." Lachman, in his
Preface writes, "It presents the classic
Reformed point of view, one now little heard and perhaps less understood.
Gillespie writes carefully and clearly, in many respects resembling the better
known John Owen in the clarity and power of his reasoning."
Bannerman states, "This famous treatise is unquestionably the most able,
learned, systematic, and complete work on the Erastian controversy in
existence. It deserves, and will repay, the most careful study" (The
Church of Christ, vol.
2., p. 432). Beattie (Memorial Volume, p. xxxvi, 1879) called this book, "the ablest plea for Presbytery ever made."
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An Assertion of the
Government of the Church of Scotland in the Points of Ruling Elders, and of the
Authority of Presbyteries and Synods (1846, reprinted from the 1641 edition)
Also found in volume one of the Presbyterian's Armoury this work is not
included in Gillespie's Works. The first part deals with Ruling Elders and the
second is written "Concerning the Assemblies of the Church of Scotland,
and Authority Thereof." A postscript is appended in answer to a treatise,
written in Gillespie's day, against Presbyterial government. "Incomparably
the best account of the constitution of our national Church which has ever
appeared," noted Principal Lee (cited in the Treasury of the Scottish
Covenant, p. 302).
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GILLESPIE,
GEORGE
A
Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies Obtruded on the Church of
Scotland
(1637, reprinted from the 1660 edition)
George Gillespie was one of the
Scottish commissioners to the Westminster Assembly, the youngest member there,
and undoubtedly one of the most influential. William Hetherington observes
"The effect produced by this singularly able work may be conjectured
from the fact that within a few months of its publication, a proclamation was
issued by the Privy Council, at the instigation of the Bishops, commanding that
all copies of the book that could be found be called in and burned by the
hangman. Such was the only answer that all the learned Scottish Prelates could
give to a treatise written by a youth who was only in his twenty-fifth year
when it appeared"
("Memoir," from the Works of George Gillespie, p. xviii.). James Bannerman notes,
"This was Gillespie's first work, and it may be
truly said to have settled the controversy which called it forth, so far as
argument was concerned. No answer to it was ever attempted by the Prelatic
party; and no answer was possible. It displays singular acuteness, learning,
and force of reasoning; and the thoroughness of the discussion is as remarkable
as the power with which it is conducted" (The Church of Christ, vol. 2., p. 435). Possibly the best uninspired book ever written on
biblical worship, an extensive and thorough masterpiece that leaves no stone
unturned. For advanced study.
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The Eschatology of George Gillespie: An Introductory Analysis and Evaluation
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GILLESPIE,
GEORGE
Ezekiel's
Vision of Millennial Glory, Preparation for Coming Reformation and a Remedy for
Backsliding and Lukewarmness (1644)
This sermon, read by elder
Lyndon Dohms (1998), was originally preached to England's House of Commons
"At Their Late Solemn Fast, Wednesday, March 27, 1644." It is taken
from volume one of Gillespie's two volume Works ($24.98 P, $34.00 HP). It gives great insight into the covenanted unity,
uniformity and worldwide Reformation sought by the majority of the Westminster
Divines and the best of the civil leaders of Gillespie's day.
Gillespie searchingly deals with the individual, the church and the state, while painting a Scriptural picture of prophesied earthly victory (I