Evening 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, 190. For Psalm 16, Prof. Calvin notes that David obligates himself to God and the reverse cannot happen since God is all-sufficient and Self-Sufficient, standing in no need of the creature, nor deriving any glory from him, etc., as per the glorious Westminster Confession. ISBE on Genesis: Dr. Harrison lays out more scholarly rebuttals of the whims and imprecisions of the Teutonic reveries of Graff-Wellhausen: Bissell, J. Orr, Baxter, A.H. Sayce, J. Dahlse, H.M Wiener, B.D. Eerdmans and, of course, another Lion of old Princeton, Prof. W.H. Green, who laid down a Waffle House slap-down on the Germans. And then came WW1 and WWII, destroying all that hot monarchialism. For Joshua 15, Joshua gives more on geography. For Isaiah 4.2-7, Prof. Henry notes that Messiah’s kingdom is coming. ISBE on Matthew: Dr. Hagner notes the five-fold structure of Matthew, although he nods to the alternation between teachings and mighty deeds. For Mathew 3.13-17, Prof. Jamiesson comments on the Worthiness of Jesus being baptized, hinting at vicariousness without saying it. Fulfilling all righteousness, circumcision, baptism, and all the legal ordinances. For Revelation 10.8-11, the angel directs John to eat the little book—tasty to the tongue, but bitter to the stomach. It is a prophecy of nations, tribes and kings to come. For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond repeats himself on the evidentialists and their circularities and stone-throwing at the presuppositionalists. For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof repeats himself on the nature of saving faith. For Apostolic Christianity, Prof. Schaff gives an overview of Seneca on the extent of total depravity. For Medieval Christianity, Prof. Schaff gives the negative side of Boniface, the Apostle to Germany, and his abuses of Gallic and Scots-Irish missionaries. If not connected to the Popes, Boniface believes one is an interloper. He was the Pope’s man in Germany. “My way or the highway. My ideology or you get steam-rolled and cancelled.” For the Swiss Reformation, Prof. Schaff proceeds to discussing events leading up to the Second War of Cappel where Zwingli will fall. For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff begins the trek through the translation of the “Confession of Trent,” 1564, the hermeneutical requirement of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). It opens with the Nicene Creed with the Filioque clause. We’ll be alert to the half-Christology and half-soteriology that undermines the citation of the Nicene Creed. Westminster Larger Catechism 190: Q. 190. What do we pray for in the first petition? A. In the first petition (which is, Hallowed be thy name), acknowledging the utter inability and indisposition that is in ourselves and all men to honor God aright, we pray, that God would by his grace enable and incline us and others to know, to acknowledge, and highly to esteem him, his titles, attributes, ordinances, word, works, and whatsoever he is pleased to make himself known by; and to glorify him in thought, word, and deed: that he would prevent and remove atheism, ignorance, idolatry, profaneness, and whatsoever is dishonorable to him; and, by his overruling providence, direct and dispose of all things to his own glory.