17th century Particular Baptist divines addressing modern souls…and occasional memes
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ANNOUNCEMENT📢📢: Today we are launching HARBOUR, our new historical republications imprint!
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Harbour exists to serve the church in recovering works of theological, confessional, and historical importance. Its aim is not to develop a random catalogue of old Christian books, but a coherent theological library for the church to use today.
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In November, we will announce Harbour's first publication. It's a devotional classic, written by a seventeenth-century author, with a remarkable history of republication and circulation. But perhaps most remarkable of all is the story of its discovery in an old Oxford library... 👀
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Read the full Harbour launch post here: brokenwharfe.com/introducing…
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You can just raise kids the way the Bible says without imagining them part of a convoluted metaphysical system.
The fundamental problem here is that Scripture is being treated as though it were simply any ordinary book, subject to the same generalized conventions by which we analyze ordinary stories.
But Scripture is not merely a narrative with a protagonist, a conflict, and a resolution. It is divine revelation, progressively unfolding across multiple genres and historical contexts, with its own explicitly revealed theological and interpretive framework.
That framework is Christological, not because we’ve arbitrarily assigned Christ the role of protagonist, but because Christ himself declares that the Scriptures testify of Him (John 5:39; Luke 24:27, 44).
The question must concern how God Himself has taught us to understand His revelation.
You guys obviously don’t know how literary devices and character roles work in narrative literature. 🤦♀️
The main character is the one with the problem. Sin separated humanity (the problem) from the Father (the one with the problem). Therefore, God the Father is the main character.
Jesus fixes the problem. He is the resolution to the problem. Usually in narrative literature the resolution person and the main character are the same person. Thus, tying together theologically that God (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) are One while maintaining the Three Persons.
It’s absolute brilliant narrative writing from a literary perspective.
This is 2nd grade level stuff guys. Literally second grade. Literary devices, character development and character roles are in my second grader’s curriculum. It’s not hard. This is how character roles in narrative literature work.
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That's one of several different answers that will be given when asked. 🧵 nitter.cf/brandon_adams/status/2…
Big, if true
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:23
(it’s true)
Ah, leave it to a political philosopher to turn a disagreement over authority and method into a question of intellectual competence.
It’s much easier to lament the intellectual decline of modern Protestants than to reckon with the possibility that your critics understand the legitimate use of natural reason perfectly well, but remain unconvinced that it establishes your conclusions.
Not every demand for biblical accountability is a demand for a proof text.
An ever needed reminder, for both sides of that verse.
“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.”
Hebrews 13:17
Particularly Modern retweeted
I can't imagine going to church and hearing a voter's guide instead of the law and the gospel.
What a way to end an introduction:
“May the unerring Spirit illuminate the mind, and guide the pen of the writer, that he may not prove an ignorant patron of error, but a well-informed advocate for truth! May the same infallible guide smile on this feeble attempt for the good of the reader, that the minds of the ignorant may be instructed; the consciences of the unawakened alarmed; the hearts of the disconsolate comforted; and real holiness promoted in all into whose hands these pages may come!”
—Abraham Booth, The Death of Legal Hope
Jesus Christ should never be made a scapegoat for political pragmatism. Invoking His name does not sanctify political expediency, nor does appealing to His kingship excuse the compromise of Christian principle for the sake of temporal power.
Christ is not a convenient justification for whatever political arrangement we happen to prefer. His authority is absolute, but our political judgments are not. Confusing the two does not honor His lordship, it presumes upon it.
If we’re one step removed from it then does that make Westminsterian Presbyterians bland evangelicals?
“Christ is all in all."—Colossians 3:11.
“Now, as the only distinction which marks the Christian from other men, and the only essential distinction in the new world of grace, is Christ, we are led to see beneath this fact a great underlying doctrine. In the realm of grace, things are what they seem. Christ is apparently all, because he is actually all. The fact of a man's possessing Christ is all in all in the church, because in very deed Christ is all in all. All that is real in the Christian, all that is holy, heavenly, pure, abiding, and saving, is of the Lord Jesus. This great granite fact lies at the basis of the whole Christian system, Christ is really and truly all in all in his church, and in each individual member of it.”
—Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 20th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Colossians 3:12-14
