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Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit January 3, 2010 By John Piper This is the first Sunday of our annual, year-beginning, Prayer Week. The very fact that we have such a thing as a Prayer Week raises the question I want to deal with today. But the question is much bigger than Prayer [...]
Help the Children Love the Different People Racial Harmony Sunday January 17, 2010 By John Piper Romans 5:1-11 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we [...]
The Second Book of Discipline (1578) Contents Chapter 1 Of the Kirk and Policy Thereof in General, and Wherein It is Different from the Civil Policy Chapter 2 Of the Parts of the Policy of the Kirk, and Persons or Office-Bearers to Whom Administration is Committed Chapter 3 How the Persons that Bear Ecclesiastical Functions [...]
The First Book Of Discipline (1560) Contents The First Head: Of Doctrine The Second Head Of Sacraments The Third Head Touching the Abolishing of Idolatry The Fourth Head Concerning Ministers and Their Lawful Election The Fifth Head Concerning the Provisions for the Ministers, and for the Distribution of the Rents and Possessions Justly Pertaining to [...]
Preface to the Edition of 1621 by David Calderwood After these dark and dreadful days of barbarous blindness and superstition, wherein by the deceit of dumb dogs, bloody wars have covered the face of this land for many years, it pleased the bountifulness of God, in the riches of his love, as not regarding the [...]
Publisher’s Introduction Works of John Knox The Protestant Reformation gave birth to several notable documents in the Kirk of Scotland. Among those documents, the First and Second Books of Discipline grew out of distinct stages in the development of the reformed Church of Scotland. In 1560, the kirk sent forth its creedal testimony in the [...]
RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES OF THE SCOTTISH MARTYRS by Andrew Syminton They (the Martyrs of the seventeenth century) held the grand Protestant doctrine of the perfection and supreme authority of the Holy Scriptures, and claimed a right to read, and think, and believe, for themselves. They embraced the system of doctrine usually known in this country by [...]
McFEETERS, J.C. Sketches of the Covenanters Stirring accounts of sacrifice and martyrdom for the Reformed Faith that will bring tears to eyes of all but the backslidden. Follows the chain of events which gave Scotland two Reformations and a Revolution. Knox, the National Covenant, the Westminster Assembly, the Field Meetings, and much more is covered. [...]
My 2010 Writing Leave: What? and Why? January 27, 2010 By John Piper From February 4 through March 17, I will be on my annual writing leave (with a couple speaking trips thrown in). Thank you for supporting me in these focused times away. They are not vacation. I usually work longer hours during writing [...]
