by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 25, 2020 | Covenant, God, Jesus Christ, Theology
For in election it belongs to the absolute right that God, according to his most free good pleasure, destines sinful and guilty men to salvation; and although all are equal, yet he elects this one instead of another, as in the case with Esau and Jacob … In...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 22, 2020 | church history, Covenant, Ecclesiology, God, Jesus Christ, Reformation
That the Lord’s supper ought not to be celebrated privately, by one person alone may be proven; 1. Because it is a communion, and is the sign of our communion with Christ: but a private supper is no communion. 2. Because it is a solemn thanksgiving; and we ought all...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
God would have us upon the Sabbath rest from all other works, that we may be free to converse with him. Therefore it is so much the more inexcusable if we have nothing else to do , [if we should] deny to converse with God as he requireth of us. If a friend should come...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
That the Lord’s supper ought not to be celebrated privately, by one person alone may be proven; 1. Because it is a communion, and is the sign of our communion with Christ: but a private supper is no communion. 2. Because it is a solemn thanksgiving; and we ought all...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have also no difficulty in conceding to you, that there is nothing more perilous to our salvation than a preposterous and perverse worship of God. The primary rudiments, by which we are wont to train to piety those whom we wish to gain as disciples to Christ, are...
