Evening Prayer (1662 Book of Common Prayer)

LECTIONS. John Calvin on the Psalms. Keil & Delitzsch: Joshua. Matthew Henry: Isaiah. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown: Gospels. Matthew Henry: Revelation. Dr. Robert Reymond: Systematic Theology. Prof. Berkhof, Systematic Theology: Soteriology. Dr. Philip Schaff, Apostolic Christianity, Medieval Christianity, Swiss Reformation and Creeds of Christendom. Westminster Larger Catechism, 130-131. For Psalm 14, Prof. Calvin notes that God is the Speaker and Teacher here. His direct views on total depravity. Graeco-Romano-Tractarian boys, do you copy? For Joshua 13, more geography. For Isaiah 3, Prof. Henry asks what happens when a nation has men with boyish minds and boyish understanding? Another stay and prop of society and culture is removed and children rule, albeit in mens’ bodies. For Mathew 2.13-25, Prof. Jamiesson lingers long on his own hours-long contemplation atop a hilltop just up from Nazareth. He gives riveting details in a panoramic view. For Revelation 8.1-6, Prof. Henry speaks of the opening of the seventh seal with the angels and trumpets—the long, continuous outworking of God’s decrees in history. For Bibliology, Prof. Reymond gives the final letter of Francis Schaeffer on the mindlessness and mysticism of godless cosmologies. For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof discusses temporary and genuine conversions. For Apostolic Christianity, Prof. Schaff gives the Jewish bibliography to the OT and history through Josephus, including 4-6th century rabbinic writings. For Medieval Christianity, Prof. Schaff describes 11th century submission of Scotland to Normano-English influences. For the Swiss Reformation, Prof. Schaff describes the tumults in the north Italian valleys between Reformed and Papist factions. For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff finishes the Russian Orthodox Church up to the late 18th century. Westminster Larger Catechism, 130-131: Q. 130. What are the sins of superiors? A. The sins of superiors are, besides the neglect of the duties required of them, and inordinate seeking of themselves, their own glory, ease, profit, or pleasure; commanding things unlawful, or not in the power of inferiors to perform; counseling, encouraging, or favouring them in that which is evil; dissuading, discouraging, or discountenancing them in that which is good; correcting them unduly; careless exposing, or leaving them to wrong, temptation, and danger; provoking them to wrath; or any way dishonouring themselves, or lessening their authority, by an unjust, indiscreet, rigorous, or remiss behaviour. Q. 131. What are the duties of equals? A. The duties of equals are, to regard the dignity and worth of each other, in giving honour to go one before another; and to rejoice in each others’ gifts and advancement, as their own.