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. EDT. CCC. Westminster Larger Catechism, 67-68.

For Psalm 17, Prof. Calvin shows how God deigns to our level to support us.

ISBE on Genesis: Prof. R. K. Harrison believes Gen 1-36 comes from previous histories and are from either clay tablets or possibly vellum. He emphasizes, contrary to the Graffies, that writing was present in Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylon and elsewhere, again, showing lack of research by the Graffies.

For Genesis 1: Prof. Keil deals with duplicatives in the Pentateuch, resolving issues with that.

For Joshua 15, Joshua gives another real-estate lesson on the Ephraimites.

For Isaiah 5.8-17, Prof. Henry comments on worldliness and worldly mindedness affecting the Judaites.

ISBE on Matthew: Dr. Dagner notes the eschatological interest of Matthew.

For Mathew 4.1-11, Prof. Jamiesson begins a long section of applications to the listen from the Temptation story.

For Romans, Prof. Hodge presses forward on 1.8-9 as preparatory to the larger Gospel.

For Revelation 12.1-11, Prof. Henry discusses the woman and dragon, the church-devil conflict of the ages.

For Systematic Theology, Prof. Hodge is still loitering around on natural theology.

For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond cites a wonderful quote by Cyril of Alexandria in a letter to Nestorius on the glories of the divine and human nature, noting that God the Son never surrendered His attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, or omniscience.

For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof tours the Hebrew and Greek terms for sanctification as holiness and separation.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff offers commendable comments on Jesus Christ from Napoleon and Goethe.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1049), Prof. Schaff discusses the forward-and-backward movements in the Christianization of Scandinavia.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff introduces Heinrich Bullinger, Zwingli’s successor.

EDT on the Oxford Movement: notes that these Oxfordians generated a wide literature from evangelicals.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff notes the several schoolmen, the University of Paris, and three Popes who held out for Maculate, not Immaculate, Conception.

CCC: offers some long-talking, warrantable however, on the value of catechesis.

Westminster Larger Catechism 67-68:

Q. 67. What is effectual calling?
A. Effectual calling is the work of God's almighty power and grace, whereby (out of his free and special love to his elect, and from nothing in them moving him thereunto) he doth, in his accepted time, invite and draw them to Jesus Christ, by his word and Spirit; savingly enlightening their minds, renewing and powerfully determining their wills, so as they (although in themselves dead in sin) are hereby made willing and able freely to answer his call, and to accept and embrace the grace offered and conveyed therein.

Q. 68. Are the elect only effectually called?
A. All the elect, and they only, are effectually called; although others may be, and often are, outwardly called by the ministry of the word, and have some common operations of the Spirit; who, for their willful neglect and contempt of the grace offered to them, being justly left in their unbelief, do never truly come to Jesus Christ.