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, April 12, 2014

Palm Sunday, 2014: "All Glory, Laud and Honor"

Our parish will sing this for tomorrow's Lord's Day, 13 Apr 2014.


This 2013 rendition is from King's College, Cambridge, which, by way of one small digression, was the Collegiate Church in which Charles Simeon took communion. He was required to be there as an entering student. As he prepared for it, he, however, found himself quite unprepared. He began reading and preparing himself.


As a result, Mr. Simeon came to repentance unto life and justifying faith in Christ's merits alone. It's all there in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the service for Holy Communion. If the walls could talk...


He then spent several decades at Holy Trinity, Cambridge influencing younger Churchmen as an old Prayer Book Anglican.

Anyways, Palm Sunday 2014 tomorrow. Another year of Eastertide is before us. May we walk in the Shekinah Glory and Light of Israel's final David, Prophet, High Priest and Redeemer...with Revelation before our mind's eye.  Yeah, Commander of all things.  Regards.




 

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