The Power of Indwelling Corruption: The Christian’s Reasonable Service – Wilhelmus à Brakel
(1) The complaints of the saints: “O Lord, why hast Thou made us to err from Thy ways, and hardened our heart
from Thy fear?” (Isa 63:17); “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am!” (Rom 7:23-24).
(2) Such texts in which believers confess the power of indwelling corruption: “Iniquities prevail against me” (Ps
65:3).
(3) Such texts in which saints pray to be kept from this. “Keep back Thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let
them not have dominion over me” (Ps 19:13).
(4) Related warnings. “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption”
(Eph 4:30); “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin” (Heb 3:13).
The Nadere Reformatie
Translated into English as Dutch Second Reformation or Dutch Further Reformation, refers to an era in church history during the Dutch Republic from ca. 1600-1750. The representatives of the period endeavored to work out the principles of the Protestant Reformation in family life, church, and society balancing and valuing both orthodoxy and piety. As such the Nadere Reformatie resembles other expressions of the Post-reformation Reformed era including English Puritanism and German Pietism.
Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) was a major representative of the Nadere Reformatie, and a contemporary of Gisbertus Voetius and Herman Witsius. À Brakel’s pastorate in Rotterdam from 1683-1711 was marked by the monumental publication of a four-volume work entitled the Redelijke Godsdienst (The Christian’s Reasonable Service) which was a systematic theology written for the members of the congregation. The work is permeated with practical and experiential application of expounded doctrines, thereby establishing the vital relationship between objective truth and the subjective experience of that truth.
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The Love of Many Shall Wax Cold – Matthew Henry (narration with text)
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Matthew Henry was a 17th and early 18th Century minister of the Gospel in Chester, England, and died in 1714.
Quoting Charles Spurgeon: “First among the mighty for general usefulness we are bound to mention the man whose name is a household word, Matthew Henry. He is most pious and pithy, sound and sensible, suggestive and sober, terse and trustworthy….”
Matthew Henry – (1662-1714), Calvinist biblical exegete Matthew Henry was born near Wales on October 18, 1662 and was primarily home-educated by his father, Rev. Philip Henry, and also at the Thomas Doolittle academy from 1680-1682. Henry first started studying law in 1686, but instead of pursuing a career in law he began to preach in his neighborhood. After the declaration of liberty of conscience by James II in 1687, he was privately ordained in London, and on June 2, 1687, he began his regular ministry as non-conformist pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Chester. He remained in this position for 25 years. After declining several times offers from London congregations, he finally accepted a call to Hackney, London, and began his ministry there May 18, 1712, shortly before his death. Henry’s reputation rests upon his renowned commentary, An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1708-10, known also as
Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible). He lived to complete it only as far as to the end of the Acts, but after his death other like-minded authors prepared the remainder from Henry’s manuscripts. This work was long celebrated as the best English commentary for devotional purposes and the expanded edition was initially published in 1896. Instead of critical exposition, Henry focuses on practical suggestion, and his commentaries contains rich stores of truths. There is also a smaller devotional commentary on the Bible from Henry known as Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary.
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