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19 April 2015 A.D. Rev. Van Horn on WSC Q.15 Editors. “April 19: Van Horn on WSC Q.15.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 19 Apr 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/04/april-19-van-horn-on-wsc-q-15/ . Accessed 19 Apr 2015. April 19: Van Horn on WSC Q. 15 STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn Q. 15. — What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created? A. — The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was their eating the forbidden fruit. Scripture References: Gen. 3:6 . II Cor. 11:3 . Ps.49:12 . Questions: 1. Why did God forbid our first parents to eat this fruit? He forbade them because He was making a test of their obedience. It was not that the fruit had in itself any evil. It was God’s method of seeing whether or not they recognized His Lordship over them. 2. Were our first parents guilty of sin before they tasted...

12 April 1443 A.D.   Henry Chicheley Dies—62 nd of 105 Archbishops of Canterbury: Lawyer, Diplomat, & Lollard-Heresy-Hunter Hind, George. "Henry Chichele." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03656a.htm .   Accessed 26 May 2014. Henry Chichele   (Or Chicheley) Archbishop of Canterbury , b. at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, England , 1362; d. at Oxford , 12 April, 1441. He was the son of Thomas Chichele, a yeoman, and Agnes, daughter of William Pyncheon. Eucated by William of Wykeham at St. John the Baptist's College, Winchester , he passed from there to New College, Oxford . He took the degree of B.C.L. in 1389-90, and the degree of LL.D. in 1396. Llanvarchall, in the Diocese of St. Asaph , was his first living, and he held in succession the rectory of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, the archdeaconry of Dorset, together with a prebend of Salisbury (1397), a canonry in the c...

12 April 1443 A.D.   Henry Chicheley Dies—62 nd of 105 Archbishops: Lawyer, Diplomat, & Lollard-Heresy-Hunter Henry Chichele (also Checheley ) ( c. 1364 – 12 April 1443), English archbishop , founder of All Souls College, Oxford , was born at Higham Ferrers , Northamptonshire , in 1363 or 1364. Chicheley told Pope Eugene IV , in 1443, in asking leave to retire from the archbishopric, that he was in his eightieth year. Contents   1 Early life 1.1 Education 2 Career 2.1 Legal career 2.2 Royal service 2.3 Later career 3 Relations with the papacy 4 Death 5 Citations 6 References Early life Chichele was the third and youngest son of Thomas Chicheley, who appears in 1368 in still extant town records of Higham Ferrers as a suitor in the mayor's court, and in 1381–1382, and again in 1384–1385, was mayor : in fact, for a dozen years he and Henry Barton, schoolmaster...