Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Saturday, September 11, 2010

2 Cor.4 and Henry Purcell's Jubilate Deo in D major

The NT lection for Saturday, Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, is 2 Corinthians 4.

Paul connects God's creation-word, "Let there be light," with HM's creation-word of regeneration, namely, the God who has shone into our hearts with the knowledge, salvation and love of Jesus Christ." As we confess in Articles 9-10 of the Articles of Religion, God alone turns us to Himself.

That word is sovereign and effectual, despite the darkness and benighted minds and lives around us. Again, articles 9-10 speak of our falleness and utter helplessness apart from God's redeeming work. Many collects assert the same. Christ is the "Light of the World," Jn.8.12, and He has shon into our minds and life. As we pray, "...in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom."

While Ms. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the US's Primate of the TEC, would call this the "great Western heresy" (salvation), we will stick with St. Paul and the Prayer Book response, the Jubilate Deo, or, Psalm 100.

Where is the outcry against this false teacher, Ms. Jefferts Schori? We Anglicans in the wilderness are led by Scriptures, not apostate teachers such as her. We are not led by non-apostolic successors trashing biblical and doctrinal succession. We are led by the apostolic message and those who maintain, as Pastors, doctrinal succession. Jefferts Schori and hundreds like her are not in that succession. St. Paul's Word stands. In response to it, we sing Psalm 100 heartily.

We host Henry Purcell's Jubilate Deo in D major, Z. 232 as sung by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Psalm 100 is an excellent response to God's sovereign, unilateral and effectual call to life in Christ.

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