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...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
V. Particular churches how they may be known, whether they be true churches or not. And hereby we believe every particular church may be discerned, whether it be a true church gathered in the Lord, even by those things whereupon the Lord hath willed them to be built,...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Heretics are they, who maintain stubbornly against the plain light of truth, any doctrine which overthrows directly, or by necessary consequence the fundamentals of Christian faith. The Rules. I. Not every Error makes an Heretic. For either there is an error against...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
“It were much to be wished that suitable steps against this evil had been taken in the Protestant churches soon upon the initial purification of doctrine. And moreover, that the idolatrous images, which have been and still are one of the principal abominations under...
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...
