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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