tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30532817162056482552024-03-19T08:55:08.087-04:00Reformed AnglicansWe are Confessional Calvinists. Some of us are also Reformed Prayer Book Churchmen.Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.comBlogger5975125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-5757672781596924282024-03-19T08:54:00.001-04:002024-03-19T08:54:13.747-04:00Historical Theology (Dr. Allison): Church Government in the Modern Perio...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/NdNSG5511y4?si=pLuwfHARQ5MLCkFZ" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NdNSG5511y4/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">In the modern period, women’s ordination, complementarianism,
and egalitarianism have emerged as modern issues. The Pentecostal and Baptacostals
(several) led the way in the late 19</span><sup style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">-early 20</span><sup style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> centuries.
The mainliners followed suit in the last half of the 20</span><sup style="color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> centuries.
Multi-site churches and megachurches following the business model of sales and marketing
also developed.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-89111739885703631012024-03-18T18:03:00.001-04:002024-03-18T18:03:23.088-04:00Doctrine of God (#1): Preface and Being of God<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F_Odb6voedE/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/F_Odb6voedE?si=XV7dVRA8TkX5dLdw" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-37250202361342964072024-03-18T16:54:00.001-04:002024-03-18T16:54:14.891-04:00Historical Theology (Dr. Allison): Church Government/Middle Ages/Reforma...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/MfOSRsHFw5M?si=Annua83foKbhGFhv" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-7599863848513458422024-03-18T14:36:00.002-04:002024-03-18T14:36:17.101-04:00Historical Theology (Dr. Allison): Church Government (#2)<div><div style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 107%;">Three views of church government with variants
have informed church history: (1) 3 tiers of Bishops, Presbyters and Deacons
(some with Cardinals and the Pope); (2) 2 tiers of Presbyters and Deacons (yet
with Synods for regional governance); and, (3) Congregationals with Elder/s and
Deacons with local governance only. Polycarp, Ignatius, Clement of Rome,
Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Cyprian of Carthage, and Jerome are put
forward. The 2-order view dominated while Ignatius and Cyprian advanced a more 3-tiered
view. Jerome strongly argued for a 2-tiered view based on Biblical exegesis,
his strong skill-set. Also, a Bishops was largely viewed as co-equal with
Presbyters or Primus inter Pares.</span> Cyprian argues with Stephen of Rome over
Petrine supremacy, Novatianism, and rigorism regarding the lapsed—Cyprian against
Petrine and Stephen for. Constantinople 381 and 451 Chalcedon noted Rome’s primacy
of honor, yet their equality with Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch closely behind.
This bone of contention will continue through several Romish Popes until Gregory
the Great and Constantinople’s Patriarch would throw down for the title of “universal”
Petrine supremacy. </span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/gWP0NuTiEkU?si=v97cldIeOVN9GSlf" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gWP0NuTiEkU/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-15682433864901351502024-03-18T12:47:00.001-04:002024-03-18T12:47:08.656-04:00Historical Theology (Dr. Allison): Church Government (588ff.)<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_E9NbPIZYCA/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_E9NbPIZYCA?si=oxmsn1qujWJWgjGy" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-9470652128696046472024-03-18T12:36:00.001-04:002024-03-18T12:36:30.766-04:00If Ye Love Me (Thomas Tallis) | The Mancunium Consort<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/JGdvcHA9es8?si=LGJF8ZcVsqw5Eibi" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-65301879015023720842024-03-18T11:52:00.001-04:002024-03-18T11:52:51.795-04:00O sacred head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale)<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/R_OBbjAfVrI?si=KNzXyV0UzMR8r3Ad" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-73786231826838541792024-03-14T13:09:00.004-04:002024-03-14T13:09:27.124-04:00Historical Theology: Effectual Calling and Regeneration (487ff.)<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/iurw9JWAH54?si=xHB9A0rQtR_1af_I" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iurw9JWAH54/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Calvin
thoroughly develops God’s sovereignty in relation to redemption. Arminianism, Dordt,
Wesleyan-Romanism like Trent, Finneyist-Tridentinism, Edwardseanism, the 1740 and
19</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"> century revivals are discussed.</span></div><div><br /></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-60501362292719822892024-03-09T12:03:00.004-05:002024-03-09T12:03:36.467-05:00United Reformed Synod (#3): Apostolic Succession?<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_4YtlRBicm4?si=girkXvur0g3AgbqJ" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apostolic Succession? What is it? What is it not?</span></span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-11055250725557467172024-03-09T09:38:00.004-05:002024-03-09T09:38:41.356-05:00Historical Theology #3 (Dr. Allison): Effectual Calling and Regeneration...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/UC3A0knnd7c?si=JI_FgZQfBirVPX-p" width="480"></iframe><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Soteriological monergism would appear, disappear, and reappear in various permutations through the Middle Ages down to the days of the Reformation. Luther was monergistic until he wasn’t (e.g. baptismal regeneration like the Anglo-Papists and Anglo-Babylonians), while Calvin, the WCF, and the old RECers were soteriologically monergistic with coherence, consistency and cogency. Calvin thoroughly developed God’s sovereignty in relation to redemption. Shame about the Anglo-Babylonians though.</span></span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-51058473815959696702024-03-08T16:46:00.004-05:002024-03-08T16:46:34.074-05:00Historical Theology #2 (Greg Allison): Regeneration, Conversion, Effectu...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/F7jDjxApv-U?si=AYOIU5qdeow_jlvN" width="480"></iframe><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Augustine’s
(or the Bible’s) view of original sin, predestination, human depravity and total
inability, effectual grace, and the gifts of saving faith and repentance are set
off again Pelagius and Cassian, a crypto-Pelagian or half-Pelagian. The 417 Council
of Carthage followed Cassian. However, the Word and sovereign God converted Clovis
and the pagans of Boniface’s times, believing that God’s Word and instruction were
the instruments of God’s working. These issues would appear and reappear through
the middle ages down to the days of the Reformation.</span></div><div><br /></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-55390584015761876702024-03-07T17:14:00.005-05:002024-03-07T17:14:34.891-05:00Historical Theology (Greg Allison): Regeneration, Effectual Calling and ...<div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Regeneration, Conversion and
Effective Calling (474-497). </span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: .25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Faith, repentance
unto life, regeneration, being born again, effectual calling, and the instruments
of God’s Word and sacraments (God’s Word enacted externally but internally to the
elect) are closely allied. Monergism strongly characterizes the early church: the
NT itself, Barnabas, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian,
Theophilus and Augustine stress the divine Giver, effectual communication of faith
and repentance, and monergistic regeneration. Slippage to synergism and theft of
the divine glory will creep into the woodwork over time. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/R4KMc3I_jlU?si=bNpEHZAceid6IZhP" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-86720078701789739552024-03-07T16:01:00.003-05:002024-03-07T16:01:24.514-05:00Dr. Thomas Cranmer: Williams, 188ff: 1552-1553<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/LPZJ9ny09Bo?si=pW1fPYFuznWoeFQS" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LPZJ9ny09Bo/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1552 BCP. The Parliament of 1552 passed the Act of Uniformity for Dr. Cranmer’s third project—a 1552 revision of the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. As early as 1550, Dr. Cranmer was consulting with Bucer and Vermigli. Objections were raised about vestments, prayers for the dead, invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Prayer of Consecration. The Communion service was altered from “The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee, preserve they body and soul unto everlasting life” to “Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.” This reflected Cranmer’s view from Christ-in-the-crumbs to Christ-in-the-heart of believers. This was an “assault” on Babylonian (and Lutheran) views. In 1559, Elizabeth put both statements back-to-back. The 1552 funeral rite precluded influence upon the departed by prayers by the living. Stone altars on the eastern end were replaced by wooden Tables, rood screens were removed, the Agnus Dei was expunged, and ordinary bread replaced leavened bread. The 1552 was scheduled for use nationally on All Saints’ Day, although a dust-up occurred with John Knox on 19 Sept 1552 about kneeling at Communion. Cranmer was appointed to investigate and he issue his acidic sarcasm and dagger was seen, “[Communicants} might as well lie down on the ground and eat their meat like Turks or Tartars.” So much for this alleged gentleness, frequently averred, but infrequently noted. The acerbic remark resulted in the “Black Rubric” which forbad adoration of the host. The Reformed view would prevail in Anglican history until the 19th century Anglo-Papists and Anglo-Babylonians arose in England and at Nashotah House in the USA.
Edward VI’s death. Edward died 6 July 1553 of, apparently, tuberculosis, at age 15. Controversies swirled about Edward’s new will, replacing Henry’s (that had been ratified by Parliament). Lawyers and Privy Council members made Lady Jane Grey the new Queen, should Edward’s anticipated death come. Cranmer rejected the move, but was pressed by Edward, the lawyers and others to sign it. Sixteen provisions were included, the second of which was “to not suffer any piece of religion to be altered.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Life as Dr. Cranmer once knew it was about to change.</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-65464028251366285372024-03-07T13:10:00.002-05:002024-03-07T13:10:10.538-05:00New Testament Introduction #:1 Dr. Theodore Zahn, 1.1ff.<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/eB-5tPNe0Gg?si=6IbHFz02lo-stDwL" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Aramaic and possibly dialects were used by Jesus in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to a Syrian-Phoenician woman. Hebrew was also used in the synagogues. Greek and Latin were used variously, but Aramaic and dialects were widely used in provinces of Palestine and locales. Yet, the Gospels were taken into Greek within a few decades, e.g. Syrian Antioch. The twelve Apostles used Aramaic.</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-61221226812952609312023-08-16T11:49:00.001-04:002023-08-16T11:49:02.878-04:00George Smeaton: "The Holy Spirit" (p. 73, #7)<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Smeaton enumerates the extraordinary and ordinary gifts of the Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians 12-14. He prepares to turn to the epistles of Paul, Peter, James and Jude in the next session. Prof. Smeaton is working diachronically from Genesis up to this point. Not a fact of general or redemptive providence is outside the minutest or grandest detail of history. History is the outworking of the eternal decrees of the Triune God. That's why the Greeks, Romanists, Anglo-Catholics and Arminians defame the Triune God with their hair-splitting obfuscations, defamations of God and the bowings to the idol of free will, while destroying the effectuality of divine grace.</span></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/546sxViG2E4" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-85255351078865530672023-08-15T16:22:00.003-04:002023-08-15T16:22:51.713-04:00Jerome Zanchius: "Absolute Predestination" (p. 72, #6)<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/leJr9yE3hzs" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Those that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">deny the power of God in doing as He wills with his creatures and who trumpet/exclaim against the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> against the unconditional decrees as cruel, tyranni</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">cal, and unjust...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Either they know not what they say....the vast majority including these American Anglican Bipsters in hats and drapes...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Nor know what they affirm...being ignorant...as many are...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Or, as for the leaders in the Roman, Greek, Anglo-Catholic, Wesleyan or Arminian orbits...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">are willful blasphemers of His name and are perverse rebels against his Absolute Sovereignty....</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To such divine Sovereignty, they will, at last, however obstinately, be forced to submit. The heavenly Chorus will sing "Alleluias" when Babylon falls. </span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-63581274873529654132023-08-15T14:04:00.003-04:002023-08-15T14:04:16.331-04:00A. W. Pink's "Sovereignty of God" (p. 54. #5): The Father, Son and Holy ...<div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/SIoOymoiN6Y" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-8183606917028592862023-08-15T10:49:00.003-04:002023-08-15T10:49:13.482-04:00John Owen's "Display of Arminianism" (Vol. 10, p.55ff., #7)<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Bcv_1HwFZzk" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ARMINIANS BELCH BLASPHEMIES AGAINST GOD AND TRUMPET THEIR PRAISES TO THEIR OWN WORKS. Dr. Owen exposes the corruption to the Trinity and His works by the Arminians. Election becomes God's post-election, following man's meritorious life of perseverence. Then God elects at the end of the dying man's life. It upends and inverts predestination. Episcopisu, Arminius and the Remonstrants clearly aver and affirm that God is often frustrated and fails of His designs. The more crafty and ingenioius ones, limiting the damage, refer only to salvation-issues allowing God to run the galaxies and nations. This resistibility to God's sovereign will is taught by Romanists, Greeks, Anglo-Catholics, ACNA and REC Bishops and others in the mainline and evangelical worlds, truth be told. NAPARC Churchmen are surrounded by doctrinal deficits between the ears of collars from seminaries. Time to fight back and exalt God. Slam the devilish profanations for what they are. Courage and clear thinking, with humility, with clear plain-talking, is the order of the day for collars and thoughtful Churchmen.</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-40682207454883999892023-08-10T12:47:00.004-04:002023-08-10T12:47:23.540-04:00Augustus Toplady's "Doctrinal Calvinism in the Church of England" (p. 10...<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Rev. Toplady retails the Papal execrations and anathemetizations of Janenism and his work on Augustine. The Romanistic anti-Jansenism was Europe-wide and ordered the withholding of last rites to any Jansenist (pro-Augustinian). Toplady briefly tours Aquinas showing his lucid moments, but then Acquinas's contradictions on the role of merit-mongery and the treasury of the saints' merits, that is, grace starts the regenerative process of infusa gratia, but election may be lost and perseverence is no guarantee, thus, aligning with anti-Jansenist forces and Tridentine theology., Rome likes to boast of Augustine, yet damns and excommunicates Jansenists. Many Jansenist propositions are Calvinist which, by inference, extends the condemnations to Calvinists and the Church of England (Calvinistic until it wasn't). Toplady also descants on the ignorance of Misters John Wesley and Walter Sellon, the latter being an ardent agent of Wesley. Toplady discourses on Aquinas's contradictions, Semi-Pelagian propositions, free will and more, in contrast to St. Augustine the Greater. The Church of England has lost this as have the mainliners in the United States including the PCUSA. The Biblical call to elevate, discourse and teach the doctrine of God has never been more necessary than for the 21st century. Such is the foundation for all church services, individual lives, and for others inside and outside the church. Law and Gospel. So, here we are in 2023 with only 550,000 Calvinists in the USA with a population of 330 million. ACNA and the REC are badly compromised and the Bishops pulls the drapes of the theological living room. The Anglo-Catholics are Arminians and Romanists on soteriology and the Trinity. "We're surrounded. Excellent. Fire in every direction. They won't get away this time" (GEN "Chesty" Puller, USMC). "Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast and hit 'em often" (ADM "Bull" Halsey, PACFLT Commander, USN). Although Toplady does not address the Trinitarian aspect, it is one of the branches of predestination, or, better said, predestination is one branch of Trinitarian orthodoxy. Send the memo to the FCE, REC, and ACNA Bishops who are mum and inert on God's sovereign decrees.</span></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/yLPAtruGV78" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-13981931004247330312023-08-09T18:53:00.003-04:002023-08-09T18:53:46.770-04:00Lorraine Boettner's "Reformed Doctrine of Predestination" (p. 57ff, #7)<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Boettner sets forth in plain talking the common sensical view of total inability.</span></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/icH7XRHdCWs" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-50146498237862291822023-08-09T14:39:00.002-04:002023-08-09T14:39:10.689-04:00Calvin's "Institutes" (3.22f, p. 185, #7): Predesination and Election<div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Calvin invokes Ephesians 1 and Romans 9 while rebutting the Arminian view of foreseen merits. The Arminians post-date Calvin, but the arguments come down through history with other names and similarities--of election based on man's meritorious and foreseen works, rather than originating from God's sovereign grace. Anglo-Catholics all embrace the Arminian heresy of works-salvation. BTW, Calvin's view of predestination has a long lineage of supporters before, during and after the Reformation. The old REC Church once embraced Reformed and Calvinistic thought, although now it's optional and should not be taught according to Sutton.</span></div><div><br /></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4tsd5meWMRg" width="480"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-90947922570124421892023-08-07T11:18:00.001-04:002023-08-07T11:18:59.360-04:00INTERVIEW: Bishop Don Lerow (ACC) & Rev. Donald Veitch (WCF-BCP-TFU): "A...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zHo-__k7xTA" frameborder="0"></iframe>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-42994162958318098412023-08-03T13:59:00.002-04:002023-08-03T13:59:03.990-04:00John Owen's "The Holy Spirit" (p. 42. #5)<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/4uSSTrRnfao" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Dr. John Owen concluds Chapter 1 on the general principles in the orientation to the subject. All good things come from Him, the Holy Spirit, along with the Father and the Son. Dr. Owen moves on to Chapter 2 on the names and titles of the Holy Spirit. Very enriching study.</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-79218709333987179132023-08-02T12:56:00.003-04:002023-08-02T12:56:47.080-04:00Prof. George Smeaton's "The Holy Spirit" (p.66, #6)<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/dcNPaqdx-ZE" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0d0d; font-family: Roboto, Noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Prof. Smeaton enumerates the extraordinary and ordinary gifts of the Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent Holy Spirit in the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians 12-14. He prepares to turn to the epistles of Paul, Peter, James and Jude in the next session. Prof. Smeaton is working diachronically from Genesis up to this point. Not a fact of general or redemptive providence is outside the minutest or grandest detail of history. History is the outworking of the eternal decrees of the Triune God. That's why the Greeks, Romanists, Anglo-Catholics and Arminians defame the Triune God with their hair-splitting obfuscations and defamations of God.</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053281716205648255.post-55276048619797898782023-08-01T17:52:00.003-04:002023-08-01T17:52:52.245-04:00Bishop Gillin (REC) & Rev. Donald Veitch (WCF-BCP-TFU): "Bishop Sutton" ...<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/UJ9W9mbKj80" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Video #1 on the same issues is found at: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--highlight-text-decorator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 8px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1px;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxO_tUz6bdE&t=0s" rel="nofollow" style="align-items: center; display: inline-flex; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target=""> <span class="yt-core-attributed-string--inline-flex-mod" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-flex; height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" class="yt-core-attributed-string__image-element yt-core-attributed-string__image-element--image-alignment-vertical-center yt-core-image yt-core-image--content-mode-scale-to-fill yt-core-image--loaded" src="https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon.png" style="align-self: center; background: transparent; border: 0px; display: inline-block; height: 10px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; min-width: 1px; object-fit: fill; padding: 0px; visibility: inherit; width: 14px;" /></span> • Bishop Gillin (RE... </a></span></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
We offer the 260 pictures from the heretical “Anglican Office Book.” This is a public matter. “English Churchman,” Editorial. </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFNpNThoMjdSLXM3U0ZQbGZKV0t1R2hzNVFWQXxBQ3Jtc0trRU1hY0tJYVRfWU5YTEZfQ3lnYk9zSjVEM182TW14RkFEZXc4RHVEazc2czBiZWJCdHU3Q1Y0SF9oTTM3NVowY2V0UHVSNE9nM3dUSVJGNVZiZkVlbGQyYXM5SWZhMVVqRmVpTFhjZG1rRFM5OHRFOA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.englishchurchman.com%2F59946-2%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0C15tC3Elrmr6AQOMC86FHOMuEKfw9KAKik9G_9apqTtphECPEnWWg5lA&v=UJ9W9mbKj80" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.englishchurchman.com/5994...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Installment #1: There are 260 such heretical Collects in Sutton's "Anglican Office Book." Here's installment 1. And Sutton "highly commended" this as an "immense" benefit, treasury and resource. </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWVKS08yNHF1WXdPVkZlSlNBZmNoTFlsOThoUXxBQ3Jtc0tuTWZIOXBOOGt5ZzQyS280T3JWdHdBZHdEb2NrX2tYRXY1X014M18wM2hRVTJ5bXNNZWJLRFBzWkdiaHNiQjI5WGpYdTRJNU56LVppaVI1MmNpdHViaWxEU2ZFbGtHSXdnT25GV2RKckdSSklTZFkyZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%2F%3Ffbid%3D10160913224385288%26set%3Dpcb.10160913236310288&v=UJ9W9mbKj80" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . Installment #2 of the 260 heretical Collects: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbl85N3dDcm1meWRYb1NUWHNFWnJtVWdsaHEwUXxBQ3Jtc0ttTFRmU3QySEpaVG1qbmhyMVBsTGxxLXc3STRuOVVvN05YMWh6Qzk0Unk4RTNZNWI1MWlULUZrTFFKYTdMekRrQm9pcGhtQ210cGRyRkg3NVJJczRFT3pDUGt3Z2xjeDNDRVFfRDJlWG1fX2F1MGlOTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%2F%3Ffbid%3D10160913237640288%26set%3Dpcb.10160913247580288&v=UJ9W9mbKj80" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . Installment #3 of the 260 heretical Collects: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbFl6b2ZVbi1BMTFFY3Y0MXdqQTE3eUNHMEgwQXxBQ3Jtc0ttbGFZa1NYeGVMeW5VUGE0ZjJWQm85WnUtdUV4OW85elA5UEJxV1R2WURqbTNvcmE4UzUyRVpDLXZnX3lxMUNBV2piQVlRQU1jU3dSMTA3aUxaV0Q3ODhMYzhFUk9ubFVTQXgwMU5DOWVheUpuMVJwTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%3Ffbid%3D10160913248970288%26set%3Dpcb.10160913257670288&v=UJ9W9mbKj80" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . Installment #4 of the heretical Collects: </span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #065fd4; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--display-type yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color" force-new-state="true" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa3poMU5DaHBTQ0hmSXlfMzd5RllfTzN3aFg1Z3xBQ3Jtc0tuQVpxVVhXYmxkSFZlSjlFSnhYM3ZCczNSdGl6ZV9yWkYyaXRjU0wtNnF6OUstbzZyeWI0cEU3dlZqVHRnUnBkMnR0VFAwZ0ZpRG9zWjI5YjZocmJzc2RJdFFNWlBhWDVHMkt1VlpiWW1KMWxTQVV4MA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto%2F%3Ffbid%3D10160913258830288%26set%3Dpcb.10160913264760288&v=UJ9W9mbKj80" rel="nofollow" style="display: inline; text-decoration-line: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...</a></span><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); border: 0px; color: #131313; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> . Sutton will not apologize or repent.
“Dear Mr. Perez, your outrageous accusations have been passed along to me. For your information I only commended the Anglican Office Book as a "resource." That means I do not agree with everything in it. There is much helpful devotional material for faithful REC Anglicans who want to follow the hours of prayer in an Anglican Way. There is also material with which I don't agree. That's why in my Forward I only referred to it as a "resource." Have you actually read my Forward? For your information, the only Book with which I agree on everything is God's infallible, inerrant Holy Scriptures. As a seminary professor I recommend many good books that have parts to them with which I wouldn't agree. In fact, I don't know of any book I'd recommend except the Bible with which I'd agree on everything. To infer from my commending a book as a resource that I or the REC are Anglo Catholic is grossly inaccurate, wrong, and a lie. Neither I nor the REC are Anglo Catholic. I caution you in listening to the false accusations of a mentally unbalanced liar. I have challenged him in personal correspondence, and he offers no substantial documented proof. He accuses me of saying things that I didn't. I have asked him for the names of people to whom he claims I have made statements, and he will not give them to me. He will not give them because he's relying on rumor, gossip, and secondhand information that are not true. And, if you don't know he claims to be a member of the Reformed Episcopal Church but he is not a member of a Reformed Episcopal congregation. In fact, he currently attends the liberal Episcopal Church. I therefore caution you in using false information to slander my good name and ministry. I don't know if you are a member in the REC. I'm checking to find out. If you are and you persist in slandering your Presiding Bishop then I will pursue church discipline against you. It will not go well and you will find yourself outside of our church. Furthermore, you are mis-using social media in the United States. You have no permission to use REC mailing lists and websites. If you continue I will have to report you to the American authorities. Instead, I exhort you to talk to me personally as the Scriptures teach before you take such a public approach to defiling my name with inaccurate and false accusations. My personal email is psalmwhosoever@aol.com. I'll gladly correspond with you about any of your concerns about me or the REC. I will pray for you that you will behave as a Biblically faithful Christian. Scripture says that if you have a grievance or accusation against a brother, you should go to him first in private (Matthew 18:15ff.). You have not done this with me. Instead you are using social media to publicly slander me and my ministry with lies. I will hear and talk with you if you come directly to me. I exhort you in the Name of Jesus Christ to follow the Scriptures."</span></div>Donald Philip Veitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15665661062267720132noreply@blogger.com0