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...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jan 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Debrecen Synod (1567) said, “all marks and organs of idolatry and the Mass are totally forbidden in the second commandment— indeed, everywhere in the New Testament,” and with several proofs from Scripture prove that “idols and the marks and purposes of...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
He who is the beginning of all things, must likewise of necessity be the end of them all; and then are our intentions rightest and purest, when we are most possessed with the desire of that highest end, the glory of God, and look straightest unto it. And if this...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Jan 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Strive after well-grounded Assurance of a good spiritual state. Labour not only, That God, Christ, Grace, and Glory may be yours: but also, That ye may know assuredly they are yours. Assurance is possible; For God’s Spirit is given to help us to it, &c. Many have...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Dec 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
Yet it ought to be observed, that we cannot become acceptable to God without being united in one and the same faith, that is, without being members of the Church; for it is not necessary for us to run to Jerusalem, or to Mount Zion, because in the present day Zion is...
by C. Matthew McMahon | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
There is but one God essentially considered: and in this the Scripture is clear, and so in this Book [Revelation], chap. 1. and last; although there be a plurality of Persons mentioned, yet it is ever God spoken of as One, in the singular number; and thus He is still...
