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, 139. For Psalm 14, Prof. Calvin notes that the Hebrew term means “foul and putrescent,” odious smelling, for the disorders of the mind and heart. Psalm 14 won’t please the Pelagians and Semi-Pelagians, let alone cut-throat theologians of the post-Kantian varieties. For Joshua 14 and allocation of the land. For Isaiah 3.1-7, Prof. Henry discusses how rulers are chosen by a socio-political compact. We can see where he’ll go, to wit, when God removes competent leaders. For Mathew 3.1-12, Prof. Jamiesson begins the discussion of John the Baptist. For Revelation 8, Prof. speaks of heaven and the seven trumpets. For Bibliology, Prof. Reymond open up locus 2 on the doctrine of God, gloriously citing WSC 4. For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof further works the subject of conversion. For Apostolic Christianity, Prof. Schaff spends down declaiming the bad context in Judea in which the elect Israelites lived and long for “Abraham’s Seed.” For Medieval Christianity, Prof. Schaff begins to explain the missions work in German and France in the medieval period. For the Swiss Reformation, Prof. Schaff explains the “non-apologetic apology” of contemporary Romanist historians about the Counter-Reformation purges in the northern Italian areas that had previous Reformed and Protestant ministries. For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff describes the final shut-down of the Anglo-Romanist, Non-Jurors of Canterbury. Finally, the Russians and Greeks slam the Anglicans as infected with the Lutherano-Calvinist heresies. Well, that didn’t go over well in Canterbury. Westminster Larger Catechism Q. 139. What are the sins forbidden in the seventh commandment? A. The sins forbidden in the seventh commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, adultery, fornication, rape, incest, sodomy, and all unnatural lusts; all unclean imaginations, thoughts, purposes, and affections; all corrupt or filthy communications, or listening thereunto; wanton looks, impudent or light behavior, immodest apparel; prohibiting of lawful, and dispensing with unlawful marriages; allowing, tolerating, keeping of stews, and resorting to them; entangling vows of single life, undue delay of marriage; having more wives or husbands than one at the same time; unjust divorce, or desertion; idleness, gluttony, drunkenness, unchaste company; lascivious songs, books, pictures, dancings, stage plays; and all other provocations to, or acts of uncleanness, either in ourselves or others.