Reformation CD#17 - The Reformation Against Antichrist 3 of 4
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Includes easy-reading summaries of the Protestant refutation of Popish and sub-Protestant arguments (in favor of a Christ-denying innovation) promoting the use of musical instruments in public worship. Three chapters deal with the synagogue. Harper was professor of theology in the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Xenia, Ohio. 101 pages.

Formerly titled "A Godly Letter of Warning, or Admonition to the Faithful in London, Newcastle, and Berwick, 1554," this letter is written asa warning against defection from the Reformed religion and against giving countenance to the idolatrous worship then being practised, in England, by public authority.

Driven from England by Romanist persecution, Knox argues,

The Mass was especially odious in Knox's sight and he "calls his people to separate from compromising associations with idolaters; the Lord's people must never condone false religion, or give the impression that corrupt worship is a matter of indifference" (notes Kevin Reed in his editor's note to this letter found in theSelected Writings of John Knox, p. 146).

The editor of Knox's Works notes that "[t]his letter of Knox's is written in a very impressive and eloquent manner, highly characteristic of the author." Reed says it "breathes with a prophetic and apostolic spirit." Knox speaks to our day as if he were standing right in front of us. Listen to the Reformer,

Romish idolatry still runs rampant today in many nations, not to mention numerous other devilish systems of deceit and false worship (e.g. secular Humanism, Socialism, pluralism, Fascism, godless democracy, independency, etc.). Most of these idolatrous manifestations of false gods are even countenanced and protected by civil authority. The plagues of God (spiritual ignorance, moral relativism, AIDS/homosexuality, debt, godless public education, feminism, etc.) are also evident everywhere -- even in many so-called "churches."

In the letter appended to this work, Bullinger, in answering "[w]hether obedience is to be rendered to a Magistrate who enforces idolatry and condemns true religion..." states, "death itself is far preferable to the admission of idolatry." These powerful convictions, granted by the Holy Spirit to men such as Knox and Bullinger shook the nations.Read Knox and the other old Reformers and see if "zeal for the Lord's house does not consume you." Anything less will not give the results that these men attained -- which included nations bowing to the Lordship of Christ, the overthrow of idolatry and superstition, and the sound of Psalmody echoing throughout the land!

This book is included among the many other FREE books in the "FREE bonus books" file on the CD.

David Laing, ed. (three large volumes, 1841 ed.).Baillie was one of the Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly and these volumes cover the period from 1637 to 1662 -- some of the most momentous days in the history of the Reformed faith. These letters contain anintimate insider's lookat these days of international religious drama, national covenants, and the writing of the greatest religious Confession ever given to men, theWestminster Confession of Faith($C29.98 hardcover; $C24.98 softcover).A major source for 17th century Church history and a totally unique compilation -- peering into the very heart of Reformation!

"The Reformation from Popery in the sixteenth century was the greatest event, or series of events, that has occurred since the close of the Canon of Scripture; and the men who are really entitled to be called the 'Leaders of the Reformation' have a claim to more respect and gratitude than any other body of uninspired men that have ever influenced or adorned the church," says Cunningham.

Robert Demaus' biography of this great Reformer was done so well that "it was but natural that the book should at once become the standard authority on the subject, which it is now admitted on all hands to be(p. 5)." The England that Tyndale was born into was spiritually dark due to the religious dominance of the Romish Antichrist. At that time the Bible "was practically unknown, either to clergy or to people. The Convocation of the province of Canterbury had expressly forbidden any man to translate any part of Scripture into the English tongue, or to read such translation without the authority of the bishop, an authority not very likely to be granted (p. 32)." But this was to be expected. "If the Pope was in very deed the antichrist foretold by the apostles, then it was not surprising that he should use every effort to keep the people in ignorance of that Divine rule which would so completely expose the baselessness of his pretensions; it was only natural that the Holy Scriptures should be buried in unknown tongues, and that the meaning of the passages which occurred in the services of the Church should be obscured by whimsical, allegorical interpretations(pp. 82-83)." Thus Tyndale decided to undertake "the translation of the New Testament into the English tongue, as the noblest service that he could render to his country, and an indispensable preliminary to any possible reformation of the abuses which abounded in the Church (p. 83)."This book, then, recounts Tyndale's heroic efforts to produce an English-language Bible.

Demonstrates from early church history that the post-apostolic church held "the view that the true and proper psalmody of the New Testament Church, no less than of the Old Testament Church, is the inspired Psalter, or Book of Psalms... Not otherwise can the attitude of the Church in the second, third and fourth centuries in relation to praise be accounted for satisfactorily," notes the author.

Part of the famous Scots series, this book (of 152 pages) chronicles the life of the Presbyterian Pastor know as the"Lion of the Covenant."

Instructions for the right receiving of the Lord's Supper (128 pages). Extensive, searching, and full of spiritual vigor -- in short, a real eye opener!

"After the death of the regent Mary of Guise, Knox and five others drew up the Scots Confession, which parliament approved. The authority of the pope was abolished and celebration of the Mass became illegal" (Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith, p. 208).

Purity of worship always becomes a primary concern during times of real Reformation, as Owen persuasively points out.

Wagner shows how modern Evangelicals have been swallowed up by the beast (civilly and ecclesiastically -- and especially in regard to doctrine) in that they now deny the most important biblical attainments of the Protestant Reformation. Arminianism (the decisionalistic free-will heresy) and man-made innovations in worship are rampant. If the Reformers were around today they would testify, as Wagner does, against modern evangelicalism -- in that the modern evangelicals have adopted more of the basic tenets of Rome than of the Reformation. "(T)he Scriptural theological attainments of the Reformation have been abandoned by modern North American Evangelicalism; and to make matters worse, an unscriptural disdain for doctrine has immunized many evangelicals from a recovery of Reformation truth," states Wagner. This book seeks to repudiate and remedy the deformation of evangelicalism.

Contains papers read at the Ter-Centenary Scottish Reformation commemoration in August of 1860 by Cunningham, Begg, Symington, Hetherington, M'Crie, Wylie, Binnie and others. Notes that "Next to the advent of our blessed Saviour, the Reformation from Popery is the most remarkable and glorious event recorded in modern history." Shows how the Reformation affected every area of life in Scotland.

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