Recent content by Martin Marprelate

Wasn't the late lamented Tom Cassidy an IBF? He was certainly Calvinistic, or at least, he believed in particular redemption.

1 John 2:19. 'They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.' If people depart permanently from Christ, they were never His (Matt. 7:23). The Good...

I have no idea. I have only once attended such a church. But until recently, the Free Church of Scotland only sang unaccompanied metrical Psalms, and some of the smaller Presbyterian churches carry that on to this day. But you are aware, I suppose that King David laid down the musical...

Indeed. The Met Tab also donated organs (musical ones, that is!) to smaller churches, but never had one while Spurgeon was pastor. It has one now.

The rational behind a capella singing in churches is that New Testament worship is different from the worship in the Temple. THere is no mention of any musical instruments at all in the N.T. and therefore, it is claimed, we should not have instruments in churches. There is a tiny number of...

It brought a tear to my eye. God bless you, EWF, and be the God of all comfort to you.

It is not true preterism, and certainly not Biblical. What a tendetious post! As if Abraham, Isaac and Jacob turned into apes or elephants when they died! Mankind is both spiritual and physical (Eccl. 12:7). The risen Lord Jesus was also both spiritual and physical (Luke 24:39-43). When He...

I looked at your link and I didn't see this. I personsally favour 'only begotten' as the translation of monogenes. I'm glad I didn't buy myself a new ESV recently.

You are correct about his split with Rome over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, but he never ceased being a Catholic; he just ceased being a Roman Catholic.

I don't want to defend the present shocking state of many Anglican churches, or its hierarchy (I once heard the present Archbishop of Canterbury speak. Not good!). However, the idea that Henry VIII was any sort of Protestant, or that he sparked the Reformation in England is simply not so...

I believe that one can find born-again believers in most churches, even if their teaching leaves much to be desired. The Free Church is in fact baptistic (ex-Brethren), but somewhat doctrine-lite. I know little about the Anglican one. It has a new young Vicar, but reading his monthly...

1 How pleased and blest was I, To hear the people cry, "Come, let us seek our God to-day!" Yes, with a cheerful zeal, We haste to Zion's hill, And there our vows and honors pay. 2 Zion--thrice happy place-- Adorned with wondrous grace, While walls of strength embrace thee round: In thee our...

Yes, obviously there are numrous Messianic prophecies that have been fulfilled. The point about preterism is that it sees AD 70 as the focal point for most Biblical prophecies. That is not a view I agree with but so long as preterists hold to a physical Return of Christ in the future, I regard...

It's not Preterism, it's Hyper-preterism. I make it a point never to fall out with anyone over eschatology, unless he denies the physical return of Christ in glory at the end of the age (Rev. 1:7 etc.).

The Bible doesn't say that God reached out to Lydia in the sense that she could take it or leave it. The Bible says that He opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul, which were , no doubt, the word of God. 'The preaching of the word of God is the word of God' (H. Bullinger). God's...