by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Moreover the rule which distinguishes between pure and vitiated worship is of universal application, in order that we may not adopt any device which seems fit to ourselves, but look to the injunction of him who alone is entitled to prescribe. Therefore, if we would...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 14, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Sacraments, Worship
“How absurd a tenet is this, which holds that there is some particular worship of God allowed, and not commanded? What new light is this which makes all our divines [i.e. theologians] to have been in the mist, who have acknowledged no worship of God, but that which...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 13, 2020 | God, Jesus Christ, Theology
Detective Harry, and his buddy Lieutenant Columbo, are sitting in a church classroom after everyone else leaves, including the teacher, ruminating in the truths they had just been walked through concerning God as sovereign. Harry is perplexed. Columbo: Harry, what’s...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 12, 2020 | Ecclesiology, Idolatry, Worship
“2. The Nazarites having made this vow were no more to serve God as they liked, but were bound |414| to follow the law appointed by God for Nazarites (Num. 6); their eating, drinking, and sacrifice were appointed of God, which lets us see that albeit God will...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 11, 2020 | Idolatry, Uncategorized, Worship
§6. The Bishop has yet a third dart to throw at us: If the church (he says)[1] has power, upon occasional motives, to appoint occasional fasts or festivities, may not she, for constant and eternal blessings, which do infinitely excel all occasional benefits, appoint...
