Daily Prayer (1662 Book of Common Prayer)

LECTIONS. John Calvin on the Psalms. ISBE: Genesis. Keil & Delitzsch: Joshua. Matthew Henry: Isaiah. ISBE: Matthew. 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, 163-166.

For Psalm 15, Prof. Calvin comments on those who “fear the LORD.”

ISBE on Genesis: delightfully describes Exodus and Joshua as more immediate fulfillments of the Abrahamic covenant, but also the rest of OT and CH history.

For Joshua 15, Joshua gives more land-matters.

For Isaiah 3.16-25, Prof. Henry comments about the shallow, show-boating women in Judah’s time.

ISBE on Matthew: comments on Papias’s citation of the “logia” or Gospel in Hebrew, interpreted as best as one could. Of course, the 20^th century writer “know-it-all” and, willy nilly, dismisses Papias of Hierapolis. These 20^th century types again.

For Mathew 3.1-12, Prof. Jamiesson takes a detour from this to the Lucan passage that brings in the larger and latter life of John the Baptist.

For Revelation 9.1-11, Prof. Henry discusses the destruction of Abaddon, or, the Destroyer from the bottomless pit.

For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond continues to choke on Ligoniers’ apologetics.

For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof discusses “faith” in the pre-reformation period. It’s too shallow. He comments on Tertullian, Augustine and Aquinas. This is an unhappy section.

For Apostolic Christianity, Prof. Schaff speaks about the Graeco-Roman preparation for Christianity, fully a western approach that misses the eastern approach.

For Medieval Christianity, Prof. Schaff addressed the German missionaries before Boniface.

For the Swiss Reformation, Prof. Schaff talks about the Peace of Cappel, 1529.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff introduced John Adam Moller and his Romanistic Symbolics.

Westminster Larger Catechism, 163-166

Q. 163. What are the parts of a sacrament?
A. The parts of a sacrament are two; the one an outward and sensible sign, used according to Christ's own appointment; the other an inward and spiritual grace thereby signified.

Q. 164. How many sacraments hath Christ instituted in his church under the New Testament?
A. Under the New Testament Christ hath instituted in his church only two sacraments, baptism and the Lord's supper.

Q. 165. What is baptism?
A. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself, of remission of sins by his blood, and regeneration by his Spirit; of adoption, and resurrection unto everlasting life; and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church, and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord's.

Q. 166. Unto whom is baptism to be administered?
A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, but infants descending from parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, and obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized.