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The Wonders of the Most High: 125 Years History of the United Netherlands
1550-1675 (c. 1678)
The subtitle reads: "An Indication of the Causes, Ways and Means
Whereby the United Provinces, Against the Expectation of the Whole World, Were
Elevated in Such a Marvelous Way from their Previous Oppression to Such Great,
Awe Inspiring Riches and Acclaim. As Related By Several Eminent Historians, and
Which After the Manner of the Time are Compiled to a Necessary and Profitable
Use."
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were ready to swear the Solemn League and Covenant with their brethren in the
British Isles (before Cromwell and his forces ruined these plans for a united
international Protestant testimony). It shows us that the best Dutch Synods
agreed with the British Covenanters regarding the civil magistrate
(establishments), God's law, anti-tolerationism, historical testimony, true
unity, false teachers, the Sabbath, "Roman feast days," worship, etc.
For example, in the section "The Organ in the Worship Service and the
Singing of Hymns," we read,
"With one word, we judge this and other
novelties, in these carefree days, a useless hindrance. This we also say of the
introduction of new hymn-books, and present day ditties, which we do not find
in God's Word; as also the playing and peeping of organs in the Church. The
former are all against the decrees of our Synods. See about singing in the
Church, the National Synod of Dordt held in 1578, art. 76; the National Synod
held in Middelburg, 1581, art. 51; the National Synod held in the Hague, 1586,
art 62; at which gatherings hymns not found in Scripture are expressly
forbidden (in a footnote: those who would like to know more about singing of
the Psalms, from the Old as well as the New Testament, can read the learned
treatise by S. Omius, called 'Dissertation", the first book. Chapter 5,
cap. 3).
"It is known from Church history, that those
who are after novelties, by introducing man-made hymns and errors, have
corrupted the Congregation. Although these people have no wrong motives, it is
nevertheless not advisable to follow in their steps, since we may receive from
them copper instead of gold, as the Pious Peter Martyr witnessed about the time
hymns were introduced into the Roman Church. See Peter Martyr on 1 Cor. 14:26.
The words of lord van Aldegonde in this respect are remarkable. In the
introduction to his book of Psalms he says, "The experience of earlier
days has taught us that it is often harmful to introduce something which is not
based on the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments." The Synod of
Dordt, 1578, art. 77; of Middleburg, 1581; of Gerderland, 1640, art. 3, have
all dealt with terminating, when determining the place of the organ in the
Church. The statement made by the Synod of Dordt, 1574, art. 50, needs our special
attention; where we read, "Concerning the use of Organs in the
Congregation, we hold that according to 1 Cor. 14:19, it should not have a
place in the Church; and where it is still used when the people leave the
church, it is of no use but to forget what was heard before;" they witness
that it is nothing but frivolity. It is also remarkable that lord Rivet,
contending against the papists, mentions several of their authors, who condemn
the novelty of the Organ, and point out that is is without profit. Rivet,
Cathol. Orthodox. tom. 1, pag. 561."
"To know the reason why Organs should be kept
out of the church, read our learned theologians and their polemics about Organs
against the Lutherans and Papists, see Faukee, about Psalm 45, pag. 20. Also
Lodoc. Larenus, in cap. 12 Esa, pag. 47, where we find the story of the duty of
Middleburg's consistory to do away with the Organ; Hoornbeek disput. 2, de
Psalmodia. thes 7; Rivet, in Exod. cap. 15 vs. 12. Imprimis Gisb. Voetii.
Polit. Eccl. part 1, pag. 548. Hospiniamus de Templis, pag. 309. It would be
better if this and other novelties were not mentioned." (pp. 151-152)
Translated here for the first time from Dutch into English, this book may be
a shocker to those not familiar with the Dutch Reformation and the faithful
pronouncements of her Synods.
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This Was John Calvin
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The Defense of the Faith
Van Til's treatment of Romanism, Arminianism, less consistent Calvinism or the
so-called "classical apologetics," as compared to the Reformed
position, is most enlightening. His work on the myth of neutrality is also very
important. For an easy introduction to Van Til's philosophy, see Pratt's Every
Thought Captive ($14.95).
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Amusements and the Christian Life
The authors states, " In preparing the following discussion, my aim has
been to illustrate great principles by the light of early history for practical
effects. All the material used is old; much of it is common to historians and
antiquarians, and yet so scattered through and hidden in large works not in
general circulation as to be practically inaccessible and unknown. The writer
has no knowledge of any essay similar to this." Part one deals with
"Popular Amusements and Primitive Christians" and part two with
"Lawful Christian Amusements." In short this book answers the
question: "What was the relation of our Lord's followers, in the first
three centuries, to the amusements of a godless world?" Scripture is also
brought to bear upon this most practical question.
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Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview
George Grant writes, "One of the most common mistakes in modern journalism
is to confuse extremist, racist, and often violent authoritarian political
movements with the political right in general and the religious right in
particular. Fascism is an aberration of liberalism, not of conservatism; it is
the illegitimate offspring of left-wing socialist ideas, not of right-wing
capitalist ideas, and certainly not of Christian traditionalist ideas. The Nazi
Party in Germany was after all the political arm of an occultic National
Socialist movement that overthrew a conservative and democratic republic. This
oft-overlooked fact is brilliantly elucidated in Gene Edward Veith's Modern
Fascism. Not only does he provide a much-needed historical corrective
(connecting the current Neo-Nazi and Skinhead resurgence to its radical roots),
he demonstrates the antipathy that fascism has always had with genuine
Christianity. Thus he argues, the bent toward violent coercion, the malignant
racism, and the almost religious devotion to messianic politics that so
characterize many of today's "hate groups" are all attributes of fringe
liberalism, not Republicanism run amuck. This is an important and sobering book
that transcends mere spatial notions of "left" and "right,"
made ever more relevant by the national mood of self-examination provoked by
the Oklahoma City bombing" (World magazine, May 20/27, 1995, p. 23). Veith
even notes that "the Nazis... in their devotion to the "soil,"
were among the century's first environmental activists." This book
"forcefully argues that fascism is alive and well in our secular,
postmodern age" (Roche), and sets forth Christianity as the only hope for
the future.
(Softcover) $24.95
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture
This book "[p]inpoints the strengths and weaknesses of postmodern thought
and points the way for Christians to take advantage of both," notes E.
Calvin Beisner. The back cover states that "Christ has called us to
proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must
understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter
the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very
points of need."
(Softcover) $24.95
Mistakes in Religion Exposed: An Essay on the Prophecy of Zacharias
(1807)
Directly opposes the spirit that mistakes in religion are matters of small
importance. Using Zacharias as a touchstone of truth, Venn refutes 29 errors,
some of which Protestant martyrs have died in opposition to. Practical theology
dealing with everything from Universalism to assurance.
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(Hardcover photocopy) $19.00 (US funds)
Learning in Christ's School
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Amusements in the Light of Reason, History, and Revelation (1882)
Twenty two chapters titled: "Amusements Designed of God;"
"Amusements Necessary;" "Proper and Improper Amusements;"
"The History of the Theater;" "Testimony Concerning the
Character of the Theater;" "The Testimony of the Church Concerning
the Theater;" "The Well-known Character of Actors and Actresses an
Objection to the Theater;" "The Character of the Plays in Use;"
"The Theater's Defense;" "The Moral Influence of the
Theater;" "The Theater and Christian Life;" "Can the
Theater Be Reformed?;" "The Dance in History;" "The
Testimony of the Church Against the Dance;" " The Dance Unfavorable
to Health;" "The Dance Unfavorable to Intellectual and Social
Development;" "The Dance Requires a Wasteful Expenditure of
Money;" "The Dance Condemned for Its Evil Associations;"
"The Dance Unfavorable to the Right Relation of the Sexes;" "The
Dance Destructive of Christian Life;" "Cards, Billiards, and
Games;" A Closing Word with Professing Christians." 153 pages.
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The Shorter Catechism Explained From Scripture
In the opinion of B.B. Warfield,the Westminster divines left to posterity not
only "the most thoroughly thought out statement ever penned of the
elements of evangelical religion" but also one which breathes "the
finest fragrance of spiritual religion." Their most influencial work, The
Shorter Catechism, was intended a a teaching basis for an introduction to the
Christian Faith. No London pastor made more effective use of it than Thomas
Vincent (1634-1678) and when his "explanation" was first published in
1674, John Owen, Thomas Watson along with 38 other signatories to the Preface,
declared their belief that it would "be greatly useful to all Christians
in general." Numerous reprints were to verify their judgement of this
Puritan classic (back cover). This is one volume in the Puritan Paperbacks
series from Banner of Truth.
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A Treatise of the Right Institution, Administration, and Receiving of the
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper (c. 1659)
Vines was one of the Westminster Divines appointed by parliament to prepare the
Confession of Faith; also one of the assistant divines appointed to treat with
the king at the Isle of Wright. He argued (for divine right Presbyterianism
against the Prelates) along with Alexander Henderson at the negotiations of
Uxbridge. A Covenanter, he refused the engagement in 1649 and was ejected from
his position as master of Pembrokehall College, Cambridge. "He was mighty
in the scriptures, and an interpreter one amongst a thousand. He was an
accomplished scholar, a perfect master of the Greek, an excellent philologist,
and an admirable orator... He was accounted the very prince of preachers, a
thorough Calvinist... a zealous puritan" (previous summary adapted from
Thomas Smith, Select Memoirs... of Pious and Learned English and Scottish
Divines, pp. 609-611). This is one of the most elaborate works on
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VINKE, PETER
Protestants Separated for Christ's Name's Sake (1675, reprinted 1845)
Explains and defends the
Reformers reasons for separation from Rome. Exhibits the major points of disagreement, these being the sufficiency
of Scripture, the doctrines of grace (salvation), and purity of worship. Elaborates
on each major area, explaining the numerous points of division specifically.
Provides, for the modern reader, some excellent points to consider concerning
which churches to join and which churches to leave. Ultimately comes to the
conclusion that,
God
never did require of us to join with any person or church in their sins; much
less that we should sin in order to the obtaining of salvation at his hands. God's rule is, that we should not 'do evil that good
may come of it.' (Rom. 3:8) And were the communion with their church never so
useful, yet if it cannot be had without sinning, it must not be had at all. If
the terms and conditions of communion with them have any thing of sin in them,
they had as good tell us that we should fly in the air, or count the sands on
the sea-shore; and in case we did not, that then they would not receive us into
their communion, or that, being in, they would cast us out. For such things as
are morally impossible, (as an assent to any error, or a consent to any false worship,
must needs be,) are as unreasonably required of us, as any thing that is
naturally impossible could ever be. And if on this account there be a rent from
them, the fault is in them that require such things at our hands; as, being
contrary to the mind and will of God, cannot be done by us. We, being innocent,
nay, commendable in the forbearing of them, (as the innocent person is in the
case of a divorce,) must needs be free... (i)t is sometimes necessary to
forsake a visible church. Nay more: it may be necessary to believe and act
directly contrary to the authority of the present church (if we are to remain
faithful to God--RB).
In this regard one more representative
quotation is provided,
One
would think that washing of hands, and the wearing of broad phylacteries, were
matters so indifferent, as that they could not be displeasing unto God,
especially when commanded by the church, and recommended too by tradition; yet
our Saviour assures us, (though they thought to please God the better by them,)
[that] it made all the rest of the Pharisees' worship but vain and
unacceptable. (Matt. 15:9) Worship is
indeed the marriage-duty which the church of God is to pay unto none but unto
Him who is married unto her; (Jer. 3:14;) and God hath declared himself to be
"a jealous God," and that he will not permit any creature to partake
that marriage-rite together with him. (Exod. 20:5) Hence it is that idolatry is
so often called 'adultery,' and a 'going a-whoring from God.' (Ezek. 23:30) And
in this, amongst other things, to be sure they agree, that as amongst men for
every fault, though heinous ones too, there cannot be a separation between man
and wife, but for adultery there may; so God is pleased not to give a bill of
divorce to any church or people for any sin so much as for idolatry. When once
they become overspread with that sin, then it is that God says unto them,
'Lo-ammi, Ye are not my people.' (Hosea 1:9).
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Politicae
Ecclesiasticae (in Latin)
"Voetius ranks among the
most influential Dutch Reformed theologians of all time. He represents the
mature fruit of the so-called Dutch Nadere Reformatie -- a primarily
seventeenth and early eighteenth century movement that paralleled English
Puritanism in both time and substance.
Voetius was to the Nadere
Reformatie (usually translated as the Dutch Second Reformation) what John Owen,
often called the prince of the Puritans, was to English Puritanism. Though
largely unknown and ignored by English-speaking scholarship, Voetius is nearly
as much an in-house name to students of Dutch Post-Reformation orthodoxy as
Owen is to students of English Puritanism."
- Joel Beeke in Gisbertus
Voetius: Toward a Reformed Marriage of Knowledge and Piety at http://heritagebooks2.org/bookstore/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=4617 and
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"In 1619 he played an
influential part in the Synod of Dort, and in 1634 was made professor of
theology and Oriental science at the University of Utrecht."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisbertus_Voetius
"Voetius hated
Arminianism. He saw it for what it was: a wholesale attack on the very heart of
the Reformed faith and, fundamentally, a return to Roman Catholicism and its
doctrine of salvation by works... So trustworthy was he considered to be
that he was voted delegate to the Synod of Dordrecht (1618-'19). At the Synod
he made major contributions to the defeat of the Arminians and the writing of
our precious Canons. When Bogerman, the president of the Synod, angrily
dismissed the Arminians from the Assembly and forbad them to return, Voetius
supported his actions...
Although Dort was a might
victory for the Reformed faith, Arminian poison continued to affect the
churches, and Voetius spent all his life doing what he could to root out this
pernicious evil.
Yet, his interest in the
Reformed faith was not merely in its intellectual coherence and internal
harmony. Voetius was a godly and pious man. One of the first books, if not the
first, was entitled "Proof of the Power of Godliness." His thesis in
this book was that, while Arminianism is destructive of Christian morality, the
orthodox faith gives attestation to itself in a godly and upright life. The
book was not the writings of a man who did not live what he believed. He was
firmly convinced, and showed it in his own life, that the Reformed faith, when
embraced wholeheartedly, led to Christian piety... Voetius was an earnest and
sincere Christian, and a most devoted servant of the Church. Few men have in
any age exercised greater influence over the Church of their time and
country."
- Gijsbert Voetius: Defender of
Orthodoxy, http://www.prca.org/books/portraits/voetius.htm.
Joel Beeke's summary of
one of Voetius' major works:
Voetius' massive four-volume Politicae
Ecclesiasticae, edited
from his Saturday debates on church government, is divided into three major
sections. The first section consists of debates relative to ecclesiastical
matters and actions. Voetius wrestles with the nature of the instituted church,
the concepts under which church government operates, and the character of
church discipline. Under "actions" he discusses the church's handling
of liturgy, psalmody, church organs, administration of the sacraments,
catechesis, fasting, days of contrition and thanksgiving, marriages, and
funerals. He also includes a treatise dealing with ecclesiastical liberty,
church property, pastoral remuneration, and church administration.
"Voetius, in his great work, the Ecclesiastical Polity, elaborately argues against the use of instrumental music in the Christian church, and among the arguments which he advances employs this: "Because it savors of Judaism, or a worship suited to a childish condition under the Old Testament economy; and there might with equal justice be introduced into the churches of the New Testament the bells of Aaron, the silver trumpets of the priests, the horns of the Jubilee, harps, psalteries and cymbals, with Levitical singers, and so the whole cultus of that economy, or the beggarly elements of the world, according to the words of the apostle in the fourth chapter of Galatians... Gisbertus Voetius argues at length against the use of instrumental music in churches in his Ecclesiastical Polity, a work which is held in high estimation among Presbyterians. The argument is cha