Morning Prayer and the Litany (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, 90-93.

For Psalm 17, Prof. Calvin comments on the insensate minds of the rich and prosperous without any thoughts for God and acting entitled.

ISBE on Genesis: Prof. R. K. Harrison comments on the Sumerian deluge narrative, a background to Genesis 6-9.

For Genesis 1: Prof. Keil sets sail on Genesis 1.1-2.4.

For Joshua 18, Joshua speaks of the land allocation to the Benjamites.

For Isaiah 5.8-17, Prof. Henry speaks of God humbling the proud and that magnifying His attributes.

ISBE on Matthew: Dr. Dagner speaks of the “tension” between Law and Grace in Matthew’s Gospel without much elucidation.

For Mathew 4.1-11, Prof. Jamiesson again continues on the Temptation.

For Romans, Prof. Hodge comments on the Justitia aliena, a righteousness outside of the human workings, a righteousness of, from, and by Christ and imputed to God’s children.,

For Revelation 12.1-11, Prof. Henry speaks of the conquering Christians loving God more than life—in the battle of the ages—the enmity between the “Seed” of Even and that of the Serpent.

For Systematic Theology, Prof. Hodge is still discussing natural theology and its insufficiency as a program of salvation.

For Theology Proper, Prof. Reymond discusses the immutability of God in His Person, decrees and works. As usual, he quotes verses with the Hebrew and Greek points.

For Soteriology, Prof. Berkhof comments on regeneration and functioning sanctification, the latter as synergistic in view of exhortations and warnings with petitions to diligent use of the means of grace.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (0-100) Prof. Schaff continues to expatiate on the “Star of the Magi” from Genesis.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1049), Prof. Schaff continues to talk about the political imposition of Christianity in northern Germany amongst the Wends.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff gives the 10 rules he wrote to his son as he left for theological studies at Stasbourg, Wittenberg and Vienna. Classic.

EDT on process theology: a contemporary movement of the “dipolar God”—involved in the endless process of the world, primordial, transcendent with timeless perfection and the immanent attribute as part of the cosmic process.

Westminster Larger Catechism 90-93:

Q. 90. What shall be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?
A. At the day of judgment, the righteous, being caught up to Christ in the clouds, shall be set on his right hand, and there openly acknowledged and acquitted, shall join with him in the judging of reprobate angels and men, and shall be received into heaven, where they shall be fully and forever freed from all sin and misery; filled with inconceivable joys, made perfectly holy and happy both in body and soul, in the company of innumerable saints and holy angels, but especially in the immediate vision and fruition of God the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, to all eternity. And this is the perfect and full communion which the members of the invisible church shall enjoy with Christ in glory, at the resurrection and day of judgment.

HAVING SEEN WHAT THE SCRIPTURES PRINCIPALLY TEACH US TO BELIEVE CONCERNING GOD, IT FOLLOWS TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY REQUIRE AS THE DUTY OF MAN

Q. 91. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
A. The duty which God requireth of man, is obedience to his revealed will.

Q. 92. What did God first reveal unto man as the rule of his obedience?
A. The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in the estate of innocence, and to all mankind in him, besides a special command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, was the moral law.

Q. 93. What is the moral law?
A. The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding every one to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience thereunto, in the frame and disposition of the whole man, soul, and body, and in performance of all those duties of holiness and righteousness which he oweth to God and man: promising life upon the fulfilling, and threatening death upon the breach of it.