18 September 2015 A.D. 7th of 39 Articles, “Of the Old Testament”—(Calvinistic) Archdeacon James Calfhill (Colchester)
18 September 2015 A.D. 7th
of 39 Articles, “Of the Old Testament”—(Calvinistic) Archdeacon James Calfhill
(Colchester)
Jones, Thomas R. “An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles.”
NewScriptorium. N.d. http://newscriptorium.com/assets/docs/anglican/39-articles/jones39reformers.htm. Accessed 7 Jun 2015.
An Exposition of the Thirty Nine Articles, By the Reformers:
Extracts carefully and fully selected from the Works of Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer,
Hooper, Jewel, Philpot, Pilkington, Coverdale, Becon, Bradford, Sandys,
Grindal, Whitgift, Etc.
Article VII—Of the Old Testament.
The Old
Testament is not contrary to the New; for both in the Old and New Testament
everlasting life is offered to Mankind by Christ, who is the only Mediator
between God and man, being both God and Man. Wherefore they are not to be
heard, which feign that the old Fathers did look only for transitory promises.
Although the Law given from God by Moses, as touching Ceremonies and
Rites, do not bind Christian men, nor the civil precepts thereof ought of
necessity to be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian
man whatsoever is free from the obedience of the Commandments which are called
Moral.
Archdeacon Calfhill, D.D. – “If they say that this commandment” (the second)
“concerneth the Jews only to whom the law was given; I answer with all the
fathers of the Church, that it was moral and not ceremonial: therefore it
bindeth as well us as them.” – Pref. to Treatise on the Cross.
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