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THUS SAITH THE LORD
"Lo, children are an
heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand
of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that
hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak
with the enemies in the gate" (KJV, Ps. 127:3-5).
JOHN CALVIN on BIRTH CONTROL
These
comments by John Calvin where edited out of Calvin's Commentaries by later
editors, and are translated here into English from the original Latin.
+ John Calvin in his
Commentary on Genesis 38:8-10 states:
"Besides, he [Onan]
not only defrauded his brother of the right due him, but also preferred his
semen to putrify the ground, rather than beget a son in his brother's name.
Verse 10: The Jews quite
immodestly gabble concerning this thing. It will suffice for me briefly to have
touched upon this as much as modesty in speaking permits. The voluntary
spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous
thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall to the
ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and
to kill before he is born--the hoped for offspring.
This impiety is
especially condemned, now by the Spirit through Moses' mouth, that Onan, as it
were, by a violent abortion, no less cruelly than filthily cast upon the
ground the offspring of his brother, torn from the maternal womb. Besides, in
this way he tried, as far as he was able, to wipe out a part of the human race.
If any woman ejects a foetus from her womb by drugs, it is reckoned a crime
incapable of expiation and deservedly Onan incurred upon himself the same kind
of punishment, infecting the earth with his semen, in order that Tamar might
not conceive a future human being as an inhabitant of the earth."
- Excerpted from The Bible and Birth
Control by Charles Provan (pp.
67-68), these comments by John Calvin where edited out
of Calvin's Commentaries by later
editors, and are translated here into English from the original Latin. In addition to many arguments against the ungodly practice of birth control,
this book also contains about 35 pages of historic testimony on this point by
Martin Luther, A.W. Pink, the Synod of Dordt, the Westminster Annotations,
Matthew Henry, Matthew Poole, Cotton Mather, Trapp, Usher, Gill, Candlish and
many more! A number of these books are available under the author's name at: http://www.swrb.com/pcopy/photoc.htm. And don't miss the "The Culture of Death
Versus the Lord of Life" quote after resource #4 below.
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Resource 1. PROVAN, CHARLES D.
The
Bible and Birth Control
Martin Luther once
proclaimed that
"the
purpose of marriage is not pleasure and ease but the procreation and education
of children and the support of a family.... People who do not like children are
swine, dunces, and blockheads, not worthy to be called men and women, because
they despise the blessing of God, the Creator and Author of marriage" (Christian
History, Issue
39, p. 24).
Luther also said that
birth control was the equivalent of sodomy (probably because of the likeness
between homosexual wickedness and impotent sex).
John Calvin declared that
birth control was the murder of future persons and the Synod of Dort issued a
Bible commentary which stated that contraception was the same as abortion.
If you are shocked, by
the strong statements from these Godly men, that really is not too surprising,
because Protestant opposition to birth control has largely been forgotten in
our decadent 21th century.
If you want to know about
Biblical principles which oppose contraception, or wish to know what the
Reformers and their heirs thought about this important subject, we certainly
hope that you will get this book!
+++
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+++ (5
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FREE MP3
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1. The Bible and Birth
Control (1 of 5) by Charles Provan
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2. The Bible and Birth
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4. The Bible and Birth
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5. The Bible and Birth
Control (5 of 5) by Charles Provan
Free MP3 at: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sermonid=121403173550
- Two more quotes from
this book:
"...we
have found not one orthodox theologian to defend Birth Control before the
1900's NOT ONE! On the other hand, we have found that many highly regarded
Protestant theologians were enthusiastically opposed to it, all the way back to
the very beginning of the Reformation ...those in favor of Birth Control will
find no one in the orthodox Protestant camp for the first four centuries to
ally themselves with. (Provan, p. 63)
Westminster
Annotations (1657); Calvinist
Commentary
on Gen. 38.9 (by John Ley of the Westminster Assembly) - "...in that there
is a seminal vital virtue, which perishes if the seed be spilled; and by doing
this to hinder the begetting of a living child, is the first degree of murder
that can be committed, and the next unto it is the marring of conception, when
it is made, and causing of abortion: now such acts are noted in the scripture
as horrible crimes, because, otherwise many might commit them, and not know the
evil of them: it is conceived, that his brother Er before, was his brother in evil
thus far, that both of them satisfied their sensuality against the order of
nature, and therefore the Lord cut them off both alike with sudden vengeance;
which may be for terror to those Popish Onanites who condemn marriage, and live
in sodomitical impurity, and to those who, in marriage, care not for the
increase of children, (which is the principle use of the conjugal estate) but
for the satisfying of their concupiscence."
- The Westminster
Annotations are available at: http://www.swrb.com/catalog/W.htm
+++
Resource 2. BARROW, REG
Birth
Control, Christian Education and the Victory of Christ's Kingdom
In two parts:
1.
"Godless Public Education and Sin" and
2.
"Why Satan Loves Birth Control."
The first section shows
from Scripture how it is a mark of apostasy to send young children, especially
during their formative years, to schools that do not make Christ the Lord of
education. It also encourages family worship and outlines the elements of this
sacred task; giving a helpful list of resources related to both family worship
and Christian education.
The second essay deals
with the practical effects of the pagan practice of birth control upon the
church and the growth of the kingdom of Christ.
+ (Bound
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+
(Hardcover photocopy) $15.00 (US funds)
The tract "Why Satan
Loves Birth Control by Dr. Reg Barrow" is also available for .25
(US funds) each.
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Resource 3.
The best single sermon on the topic of birth control:
Birth Control: The Biblical and Historic Protestant Position by Greg Price
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=513091548421 (Free MP3)
Greg Price also touches on the topic of birth control in this free MP3:
The Revival of Family Religion (Family Worship, Education of Children, etc.) by Greg Price
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1120113519
Also see the SWRB blog, "UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY, ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTIVES (BIRTH CONTROL)."
+++
Resource 4. REFORMATION BOOKSHELF CD (Volume Twenty-two)
++ The
Reformation Family
+ Family, Marriage, Raising Children, Education,
Parental Duties, Family Worship, Courtship, Recreation,
Amusements, Calvinistic Tract Pack, etc.
- AUTHORS ON THIS CD: William Gouge, John Calvin,
Matthew Henry, J.C. Ryle, the Westminster Assembly of Divines, Covenanted
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, J.H. Merle D'Aubigne, B.M. Palmer,
J.W. Alexander, Richard Steele, Samuel Davies, Daniel Defoe, R.L. Dabney, John
Witherspoon, the Reformed Presbytery (RPNA), the famous Synod of Dort
(1618-1619), Thomas Manton, George Gillespie, Samuel Rutherford, C.H. Spurgeon,
Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, John Brown (of Wamphray), John Brown (of
Haddington), Francis Turretin, James Durham, John Howie, William Hetherington,
David Steele, Samuel Miller, John Girardeau, Edward Fisher, Robert Shaw, A.W.
Pink, Loraine Boettner, Augustus Toplady, Andrew Symington, Patrick Fairbairn,
William Roberts, Richard Baxter, William Cunningham, John Anderson, Andrew
Clarkson, David Scott, John Cunningham, George Smeaton, Larry Birger, Francis
Rouse, Dr. F. Nigel Lee, Bill Mencarow, J.A. Wylie, James Douglas, Francis
Nigel Lee, Michael Wagner, the Puritan Reformed Church of Edmonton (Session),
Greg Price, Lyndon Dohms (on PRCE session), Greg Barrow, Dr. Reg Barrow, et al.
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This CD contains:
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+++ FAMILY
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+ GOUGE, WILLIAM
Of Domestical Duties
(1622)
Gouge, a celebrated
Puritan Divine, was a member of the Westminster Assembly and Darling
(Cyclpaedia Bibliographica) calls him "eminently learned and a preacher of
great influence."
Many consider this one of
the best books ever written on the family.
It includes eight
treatises:
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1. An Exposition of that part of Scripture out of which Domestical Duties are
raised.
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2. Duties between Man and Wife.
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3. Particular Duties of Wives.
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4. Particular Duties of Husbands.
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5. Duties of Children.
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6. Duties of Parents.
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7. Duties of Servants.
-
8. Duties of Masters.
If you are interested in
family matters it is not likely that you will find a better or more thoroughly
Scriptural book on this topic! Over 700 pages.
***
+ PALMER, B.M.
Husbands, Wives, and
Parents: Their Biblical Place and Duties (1876)
***
+ SCIPIONE, GEORGE C.
The Biblical Battle for
the Family (1993)
A scholarly, yet
practical, look at God's view of the family. Argues that the family is the
basic building block of society. Looks at the family in Western and non-Western
culture. Deals with marriage, children and parenting. Jay Adams reworked the
manuscript.
***
+ SMITH, B.M.
Family Religion, or the
Domestic Relations as Regulated by Christian Principles (1859)
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+ STEELE, RICHARD
What are the Duties of
Husbands and Wives Towards Each Other? (1674, reprinted 1844)
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+++ FAMILY WORSHIP
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+ ALEXANDER, JAMES W.
Family Worship: A
Biblical Duty (1847)
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+ ALEXANDER, JAMES W.
Family Worship: Its
Influence Over All of Life
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+ COVENANTED GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
Directions of the General
Assembly Concerning Secret and Private Worship, and Mutual Edification, For
Cherishing Piety, For Maintaining Unity, and Avoiding Schism and Division: With
An Act for observing these Directions, and for censuring such as use to neglect
Family Worship. And An Act against such as withdraw themselves from the Public
Worship in their own Congregations (1647)
***
+ DAVIES, SAMUEL
The Necessity and
Excellence of Family Religion
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+ DOOLITTLE, THOMAS
How May the Duty of Daily
Family Prayer Be Best Managed for the Spiritual Benefit of Every One in the
Family? (1675, reprinted 1845)
***
+ HENRY, MATTHEW
The Catechising of Youth
and Christ's Favour to Little Children Displayed (1713)
The two sermons noted
above form foundational teaching that every family should be aware of and
practice. A faithful ministry and faithful parents, who catechise their
children daily, will do more for true Reformation and godliness than just about
any other means to this end. Here Henry also adds simple questions to each
question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism to help explain it to beginners.
Very practical!
***
+ HENRY, MATTHEW
A Church in the House: A
Sermon Concerning Family Religion (London, 1704)
Family worship is
presently one of the most powerful weapons in a Christian parent's arsenal of
truth. Read this Puritan sermon and see why!
***
+ PALMER, B.M.
The Family in its Offices
of Instruction and Worship (1876)
The author notes that
"[f]rom the earliest period in the history of the Church, the duty of
family instruction has been emphasized as the most important of all agencies in
perpetuating the knowledge of Divine truth" (emphasis added). Furthermore,
he writes, "each pious household is a separate fibre of those roots by
which the Church of the living God takes hold upon the earth, and preserves its
existence in a sinful world." It is especially important that fathers
study material like this, for if they will not lead their families in
instruction and daily family worship, they have, for all intents and purposes,
denied the faith. For when 1 Tim. 5:8 states, "But if any provide not for
his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith,
and is worse than an infidel," it should be taken to heart. Even if this
verse refers specifically to the material aspects of life, how much more
important are the spiritual duties? This book should be a great encouragement
to those entrusted with these most important spiritual duties and privileges!
***
+ WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY OF
DIVINES
The Directory For
Family-Worship (1647) and The Directory for the Publick Worship of God (1645)
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+ MARRIAGE
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+ DEFOE, DANIEL
A Treatise Concerning the
Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed (1727)
The title continues:
"Showing: I. The nature of matrimony, its sacred original and the true
meaning of its institution; II. The gross abuse of matrimonial chastity, from
the wrong notions which have possessed the world, degenerating even to
whoredom; III, The Diabolical practice of attempting to prevent child-bearing
by physical preparations; IV. The fatal consequences of clandestine or forced
marriages, through the persuasion, interests, or influence of parents and
relations, to wed the person they have no love for, but oftentimes an aversion
to; V. Of unequal matches, as to the disproportion of age; and how such, many
ways, occasion a matrimonial whoredom; VI. How married persons may be guilty of
conjugal lewdness, and that a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife;
Also many other particulars of family concern." From the author of
Robinson Crusoe and many other writings. 104 pages.
***
+ GIBSON, JAMES
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)
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+ RAISING CHILDREN
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+ DABNEY, ROBERT LEWIS
Parental Responsibilities
(1879)
***
+ GAMBLE, DAVID
Dr. Dad: Random Thoughts
on the Status of Fatherhood in Modern America
***
+ HENRY, MATTHEW
Sober-Mindedness Pressed
Upon Young People
***
+ HOUSTON, THOMAS
Works: Doctrinal and
Practical (Volume 2 of 4, 1876)
Contains the third
edition of "Youthful Devotedness: Or, The Youth of the Church Instructed
in the Duties of Practical Religion." This first section was written
because the author was "most deeply impressed with the conviction that one
of the most urgent and important duties of the Church in the present day is to
give all attention to the training of the young; and to excite (the Christian
community--RB) to earnest, persevering prayer on behalf of its baptized
members." Also contains Houston's "The Fellowship Prayer-Meeting: The
Institution, Nature, History, and Advantages of Select Christian
Fellowship." 401 pages.
***
+ LYE, THOMAS
By What Scriptural Rules
May Catechising Be So Managed, As That It May Become Most Universally
Profitable (1674, reprinted 1844)
Based on "Train
up," or catechise, "a child in the way he should go," or in his
way: "and When he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).
Shows that there are several texts of Scripture from which the learned conclude
that this mode of Catechising was used in the apostles' days, and by the
apostles themselves and their immediate successors; and this in imitation of
the Jews who had "a form of knowledge and of the truth in the law,"
(Rom. 2:20), out of which they instructed the ignorant, and taught babes.
***
+ LYE, THOMAS
What May Gracious Parents
Best Do for the Conversion of Those Children Whose Wickedness Is Occasioned By
Their Sinful Severity or Indulgence?
***
+ NEWTON, RICHARD
Nature's Mighty Wonders
(1871)
Lessons for the use of
children designed to show the wisdom and goodness of God as they appear in the
works of nature. A one-of-a-kind book of 185 pages.
***
+ POLLOK, ROBERT
Tales of the Covenanters
(1894)
"(F)rom 1824-5 he
wrote his oft-reprinted Tales of the Covenanters, consisting of Helen of the
Glen, Ralph Gemmell and The Persecuted Family, originally published separately
and anonymously. These celebrate the Covenanting heroes and martyrs of the
Killing Times" (Needham cited in Cameron, ed., Dictionary of Scottish
Church History & Theology, p. 662). 253 pages.
***
+ RYLE, J.C.
Duties of Parents
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+ EDUCATION
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+ WAGNER, MICHAEL G.
Private Versus Public
Education: The Alberta Debate (1995)
Though focusing on
Alberta, the principles dealt with in this book can be applied throughout
Canada, and in any other nations where home/private education is taking place.
Describes the historical background and major episodes in this debate and then
assesses the three major arguments made against private schools. Concludes by
showing the superiority of private education and exposing the self serving
nature of the public educator's agenda. This is Wagner's Master's Thesis.
***
+ GRAVES, F.P.
Peter Ramus and the
Educational Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
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+ COURTSHIP
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+ DEFOE, DANIEL
Religious Courtship:
Being Historical Discourses, On the Necessity of Marrying Religious Husbands
and Wives Only (1743)
***
+ Also see Greg Price's
Christian Education in the Home: Help! My Daughter Wants to Date (1994) in the
FREE books folder on this CD.
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+ RECREATION
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+ ANDERSON, GEORGE
The Use and Abuse of
Diversions (1733)
***
+ ASSOCIATE PRESBYTERY OF
MIAMI
Amusements and Levity: A
Pastoral Letter
***
+ BRAINERD, THOMAS
The Influence of Theaters
***
+ GOSSON, STEPHEN
The School of Abuse
(1579)
The title continues:
"Containing a pleasant invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters,
and such like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth; Setting Up the Flag of Defiance
to their Mischievous exercise, and overthrowing their Bulwark, by Profane
Writers, Natural reason, and common experience: A discourse as pleasant for
Gentlemen that favour learning, as profitable for all that will follow virtue"
(spelling modernized--RB). Very rare!
***
+ THOMPSON, ELBERT N.S.
The Controversy Between
The Puritans and the Stage (1903, Yale Studies in English)
***
+ VASS, L.C.
Amusements and the
Christian Life
***
+ VERNON, S.M.
Amusements in the Light
of Reason, History, and Revelation (1882)
***
+ WINCHESTER, S.G.
The Theatre (1840)
***
+ WITHERSPOON, JOHN
A Serious Inquiry Into
the Nature and Effects of the Stage (1812)
Also includes
Witherspoon's letter respecting play actors and a sermon, on the burning of the
theatre at Richmond, by Samuel Miller. An introductory address by several
ministers in New York (including Samuel Miller), dissuading Christians from
attending theatrical representations, prefaces this work. 199 pages.
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+ CALVINISTIC TRACT
PACK
*********************
+ NUMEROUS AUTHORS
Calvinistic Tract Pack
Contains numerous
Calvinistic tracts and newsletters (100+) covering many subjects.
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+++ Also contains the
101 FREE bonus books and articles listed in the summary for Reformation
Bookshelf CD #1 ( http://www.swrb.com/Puritan/reformation-bookshelf-CDs.htm ).
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+++ Also free on this
CD are the following audio (MP3) tracks:
-
J.H. Merle D'Aubigne - Family Worship: Motives and Directions for Domestic
Piety (1827)
-
F.N. Lee - Daily Family Worship
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F.N. Lee - Seventh Commandment: The Bible and Sexual Purity (Miscellaneous
Topics Series 8/10)
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F.N. Lee - Youth and Their Relaxation (Miscellaneous Topics Series 9/10)
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William Gouge - Particular Duties of Christian Wives (1/3)
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William Gouge - Particular Duties of Christian Wives (2/3)
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William Gouge - Particular Duties of Christian Wives (3/3)
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Greg Price - Bringing Our Children to Christ (Mark #46, Mark 10:13-16)
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Greg Price - Blasing the Devil's Lies About Sex and Marriage
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Greg Price - Family Worship (2/2)
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Greg Price - Puritan View of Marriage and the Family #15 (Training Children and
Parental Duties #2)
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Greg Price - The Revival of Family Religion
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Greg Price - Covenanted Motherhood
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Greg Price - Lawful Divorce in the Bible
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Greg Price - Infant Baptism as Covenant Keeping
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Greg Price - What Does Baptism Accomplish?
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Greg Price - Circumcision's Spiritual Significance
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Greg Price - Baptism as New Testament Circumcision
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Greg Price - Holy Children
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Greg Price - Worldwide Calvinistic Unity and Loving One Another (1 John Series
(18/27)
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Greg Price - History of the Assembly at Westminster
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Westminster Divines / Assembly - Westminster Shorter Catechism (1648) Original
Unedited Edition
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Westminster Divines / Assembly - Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) &
the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) Original Unedited Edition
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Westminster Divines / Assembly - Westminster Larger Catechism 1/2 (1648)
Original Unedited Edition
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Westminster Divines / Assembly - Westminster Larger Catechism 2/2 (1648)
Original Unedited Edition
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John Howie - Biographia Scoticana: or, A Brief Historical Account of the Lives,
Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
(14/21) (Second edition, corrected and enlarged, 1781)
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Greg Price - Christmass Condemned By Christ 1/3
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Greg Price - Christmass Condemned By Christ 2/3
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Greg Price - Christmass Condemned By Christ 3/3
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+++ THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AGAINST
PORNOGRAPHY, ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTIVES +++
+ REVISED STATUTES
OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE 43rd CONGRESS, 1873-74.
PUBLISHED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S PRINTING OFFICE IN 1878.
SEC. 2491. All persons
are prohibited from importing into the United States, from any foreign country,
any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print,
picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or
other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature,
or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of
conception, or for causing unlawful abortion. No invoice or package whatever,
or any part of one, in which any such articles are contained shall be admitted
to entry; and all invoices and packages whereof any such articles shall compose
a part are liable to be proceeded against, seized, and forfeited by due course
of law. All such prohibited articles in the course of importation shall be
detained by the officer of customs, and proceedings taken against the same as
prescribed in the following section: Provided, That the drugs hereinbefore
mentioned, when imported in bulk and not put up for any of the purposes
hereinbefore specified, are excepted from the operation of this section. [See
1785.]
+++ The CULTURE of DEATH VERSUS the LORD of
LIFE +++
"If you can't
control consumption, then you have to control the consumer... It's better just
to convince the victims to kill themselves, so that's what they did.1 They
convinced them that the laws of God about human sexuality were all wrong.2
The government and the
media and the academics promoted the demise of the family with easy divorce,
government welfare,3 and intrusion into the family.4 They created the new
counterfeit 'rights' to destroy the real rights.5 They encouraged women to work
outside the home and abandon their children,6 and after all, a new car is more
important
than another child,
right?7 A working mother can't be tied down to five children.8
In effect, they convinced
almost everyone, contrary to the law of God, to perform VOLUNTARY GENOCIDE on
themselves by limiting the size of their families.9
Then they promoted
homosexuality. Any way you cut it, no matter how long 'Adam and Steve' are
'married,' no matter how many times they do whatever it is they do to each
other, THEY WILL NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN. So you remove a big slice out of the
reproductive population by promoting sodomy.10 Then there was AIDS...11 And
look, if you can't get rid of the suckers any other way and you need to cull
the herd, then why not convince them to kill their own children? So you
legalize abortion and promote it as an alternative method of 'birth control.12
Besides, that cheapens
human life and softens up the suckers for the next step: killing off the old
folks.13 First you bake the cake of human concern for 'dignity in death,' and
then you pour on the icing of self interest: it cost lots to keep the old
'useless eaters' alive. Don't be selfish; make way for the next generation, not
a mild inducement in a society that worships youth.
A by-product of the
euthanasia industry is suicide at all ages. You know, we all have to go
sometime, so why not be like God and decide for ourselves when we'll go? And
they introduced the death cult in rock music.14 That convinced the young ones to
kill them selves before they got to breeding age and cluttered up the scene
with still more children. All this was part and parcel of the same cult of
death worship. You know what Scripture says:
'all
those who hate me love death."15
And in judgement the God
of life abandoned them to the de sires of their heart. They wanted death, and
that's what they got. Lots of it... So gradually, gradually, the government
conquered group after group. They convinced the people that they couldn't be
responsible for themselves, that only the government had the wisdom necessary
to make the hard decisions forced upon us by the complicated modern world. And
this is the essence of slavery: the free man gives up responsibility for
himself.16
I'm always amused by
people who want to reject the so-called 'harsh laws of God.' But Jesus said,
'Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.'
He's the God of life, and
His law is the law of life.17
The law of men is the law
of death."18
1.
Cf. Jacqueline Kasun, The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of
Population Control (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius, 1988).-RB (Reg Barrow)
2.
For a succinct and excellent explanation of the law of God concerning sexuality
(i.e. the seventh commandment) see The Westminster Larger Catechism in the
Westminster Confession of Faith (in the free books file on each Reformation Bookshelf
CD at http://www.swrb.com/Puritan/reformation-bookshelf-CDs.htm), questions and
answers 137-139, also found on pages 222-225 of the printed edition at
http://www.swrb.com/catalog/W.htm .-RB
3.
Cf. David Hall, ed., Welfare Reformed: A Compassionate Approach (Presbyterian
and Reformed Publishing/Legacy Communications, 1994).
4.
Cf. George Grant,The Family Under Siege: What the New Social Engineers Have in
Mind for You and Your Children (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany House
Publishers, 1994).
5.
Cf. Steve Schlissel, The Right to Death (cassette) and E. Calvin Beisner, Man,
Economy, and the Environment in Biblical Perspective (Moscow, ID: Canon Press,
1994).-RB
6.
Charles Church, A Word on Working Mothers (Mt. Carmel Publications, n.d.) or
Jane Schulz, The Christian Woman's Place (n.p., n.d.) at
http://www.swrb.com/catalog/S.htm.
7.
Cf. Charles Provan, The Bible and Birth Control (Monongahela, PA: Zimmer
Printing, 1989 at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/P.htm).
8.
Cf. Mary Pride, The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality (Wheaton, IL:
Crossway Books, Thirteenth printing 1993) or Mary Pride, All the Way Home:
Power for Your Fam ily To Be its Best (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, Second
printing 1989).-RB
9.
Cf. Charles Provan, The Bible and Birth Control (Monongahela, PA: Zimmer
Printing, 1989 at http://www.swrb.com/catalog/P.htm).
10.
Cf. George Grant, Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of
the Closet (Moody Press/Legacy Communications, 1993), George Grant or the video
Gay Rights - Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda (Hemet, CA: Jeremiah
Films, 1993).-RB
11.
Cf. Steve Schlissel AIDS and the Wrath of God (cassette).-RB
12.
For "a pro-life weapon of unprecedented might" obtain a copy of the
video Hard Truth co-produced by American Portrait Films, The Center for
Bio-Ethical Reform and Reel to Real Min istries from
http://www.swrb.com/music/videos.htm.
13.
See the video The Right to Kill (Cleveland, OH: American Portrait Films, 1989)
at http://www.swrb.com/music/videos.htm .-RB
14.
Cf. The video set Hells Bells: The Dangers of Rock 'n' Roll written and
produced by Eric Holmberg (at http://www.swrb.com/music/videos.htm) for
documentation regarding this point.-RB
15.
Proverbs 8:36-RB
16.
Cf. Erik von Kuehnelt-Ledden, Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to
Hitler and Pol Pot (Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1990). To be tempered with
Samuel Rutherfurd, A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience
(London, England: Andrew Cook, 1649, http://www.swrb.com/catalog/R.htm) and
George Smeaton, The Scottish Theory of Ecclesiastical Establishments
(Edinburgh, Scot land: Lyon & Gemmell, 1875,
http://www.swrb.com/catalog/S.htm).-RB
17.
See the Puritan book The True Bounds of Christian Freedom (Edinburgh, Scotland:
Banner of Truth, [1645] 1978) by Samuel Bolton (at
http://www.swrb.com/catalog/P.htm), for more study concerning the Lord's
perfect law of life.-RB
18.
This entire quotation, excepting the footnotes, is taken from: Franklin Sanders,
Heiland (Hamilton, Bermuda: Machrihanish Limited, 1986), pp. 176-181. This
novel is set in 2020 A.D. when America is divided into two societies: the
Insiders and the Freemen. One is founded on the worship of death - the other on
a new obedience to God (backcover). It takes a look at one scenario of where
the ideas being promoted today, both Godly and ungodly, could lead us in a
quarter of a century.
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