Archive for July 28th, 2010

Today in Church History: J. Gresham Machen

Yazan: ayong | 28 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Theology

On July 28, 1881, J. Gresham Machen was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The second of three sons born to Arthur Webster Machen and Mary Gresham Machen, Gresham was raised in an affluent Southern Presbyterian home, and his family attended Franklin Street Presbyterian Church, an influential Old School congregation. His upbringing nurtured him less in the [...]

The Good Inquisition

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Categories: Theology

Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment, p. 13: Self-examination; for a man to take his heart, as a watch, all in pieces, to set up a spiritual inquisition, or court of conscience, and traverse things in his own soul; to take David’s candle and lantern (Ps. 119.105) and search for sin; nay, as judge, [...]

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