It is proverbial among male poets and playwrights to speak of the frailty or inconstancy of woman. But Biblically speaking, constancy is a virtue of both sexes and inconstancy is a vice equally descriptive of both sexes. Puritan writer Samuel Torshell (1605-1650) makes this point by comparing Ruth and Reuben in his treatise The Woman’s ...
John Wells, “How We May Make Melody In Our Hearts to God in Singing of Psalms” in The Morning Exercises at Cripplegate, Vol. 2, pp. 76-77: 1. Singing is the music of nature. The Scriptures tell us, the mountains sing (Isai. xliv.23;) the valleys sing; (Psalm lxv.13;) the trees of the wood sing (1 Chron. ...
Greg Peters at The Scriptorium provides a fascinating analysis of Dante’s Ante-Purgatory found in the Divine Comedy. Here’s how it begins . . . For many Protestant Christians today the doctrine of Purgatory (especially in its medieval articulation) is blatantly wrong. The need for such a place is mainly the result of the medieval concepts ...
One of the drums I will never tire of beating is this: All biblical worship is rooted in and made possible by the cross of Christ. In my experience, the contemporary church (and any church, for that matter) is always in danger of neglecting the gospel in its songs. I said it this way in ...
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A sound . . . came from heaven . . . they saw . . . The gift had to be visible, so that the disciples might be roused through their physical senses. We are so slow to think about the gifts of God that unless he wakes up all our senses, his power passes ...
Matthew Henry, like Thomas Vincent before him, summed up the first table of the Decalogue this way, writing on Ex. 20.1-11: The first four of the ten commandments, which concern our duty to God (commonly called the first table), we have in these verses. It was fit that those should be put first, because man ...