Evening Prayer (1662 Book of Common Prayer)

LECTIONS. John Calvin on the Psalms. ISBE: Genesis. Keil: Genesis. Keil & Delitzsch: Joshua. Matthew Henry: Isaiah. ISBE: Matthew. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown: Gospels. Romans: Prof. Hodge. Matthew Henry: Revelation. Prof. Hodge: Systematic Theology. 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, 5-9.

For Psalm 16, Prof. Calvin comments on firmness and fixity of David’s focus on God’s providence. The lesson pertains to the reader with similar fixity, thus breaking the masks and illusions of this world and breaking their allure and deceits of lying theism and suppressor-theism.

ISBE on Genesis: Prof. R. K. Harrison further maims the man-parts and manhood of the desperate JEDP speculators and peculators. J + E, yet JE existed which the scholarly speculators tried to explain away their difficulty by postulating another source or a conflation of the two sources which violated their own sacrosanct canons. Desperate expedients were used to ameliorate the awkward problem. Meanwhile, few noticed while gullible seminarians were “assured of scholarly results” about “dubious and vague histories” larded with folklore, myth and legends, thus allowing other things to be dismissed including peccates origine, or original sin. It still in the OT attic.

For Genesis 1: Prof. Keil gives a structural overview of the Pentateuch of the Kingdom of God from Creation through its OT form until Deuteronomy.

For Joshua 15, Joshua talks about more land deals.

For Isaiah 4.2-7, Prof. Henry notes that God’s Reformed Church, with changed and Godly lives, is protected.

ISBE on Matthew: Dr. Dagner notes that a few scholars believe that Matthew’s Gospel was a liturgical volume based on the Jewish festal year.

For Mathew 3.13-17, Prof. Jamiesson lingers on the issue of the word “tempted” in connection with Jesus’s temptation.

For Romans, Prof. Hodge argued for the authenticity of Paul’s Epistle. Nowhere is its authenticity challenged and for cause.

For Revelation 11.1-2, Prof. Henry notes that the church as the true temple is safe and protected while the false church is not.

For Systematic Theology, Prof. Hodge discusses mysticism of the school of Schleiermacher and his progeny making the human emotional sense the media of revelation.

For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond takes us God’s name as Jehovah.

For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof continues his discussion on the forensic act of God in His tribunal declaring, as an act, the sentence of acquittal. He is carefully distinguishing justification from sanctification.

For Apostolic Christianity, Prof. Schaff gives a list of varied apocryphal Gospels.

For Medieval Christianity, Prof. Schaff further describes the Christianization of German via Charlemagne, various new bishoprics and monasteries.

For the Swiss Reformation, Prof. Schaff tells the story of Zwingli’s widow who lost her husband, son, brother, brother-in-law and others. Bullinger took the widow into his home.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff quotes the condemnation of Jansenism by the Papal Bull, Unigentus (1713), and reasserted by several subsequent Popes throughout the 18^th century, to wit: “…false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, rash, injurious, seditious, impious, blasphemous, suspect of heresy and savoring her heresy itself, near akin to heresy, several times condemned, and manifestly various heresies, particularly those contained in the infamous propositions of Jansenism.”

Westminster Larger Catechism 5-9:

Q. 5. What do the Scriptures principally teach?
A. The Scriptures principally teach what man is to believe concerning God, and what duty God requires of man.

WHAT MAN OUGHT TO BELIEVE CONCERNING GOD

Q. 6. What do the Scriptures make known of God?
A. The Scriptures make known what God is, the persons in the Godhead, his decrees, and the execution of his decrees.

Q. 7. What is God?
A. God is a Spirit, in and of himself infinite in being, glory, blessedness, and perfection; all-sufficient, eternal, unchangeable, incomprehensible, everywhere present, almighty, knowing all things, most wise, most holy, most just, most merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

Q. 8. Are there more Gods than one?
A. There is but one only, the living and true God.

Q. 9. How many persons are there in the Godhead?
A. There be three persons in the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one true, eternal God, the same in substance, equal in power and glory; although distinguished by their personal properties.