by Justin Marple | May 7, 2012 | John Flavel, Quotes, REVIEWS
Of Baptism Flavel compares the water of baptism with the blood of Christ: It resembles it in the Necessity of it; for as the Body cannot live without Water, so neither can the Soul without Christ’s Blood, Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary, that Pattern of...
by Justin Marple | Apr 30, 2012 | John Flavel, Quotes, REVIEWS
Of the number of the Sacraments It is interesting to see Flavel say this concerning anointing the sick with oil: “Which are neither Sacramental Rites, nor of ordinary standing Use in the Church, but extraordinary and temporary for that Age.” Flavel is...
by Justin Marple | Apr 29, 2012 | 2012 Sermons, Isaiah, SERMONS
Isaiah 56:9-57:13 compares the watchmen or elders or shepherds of Israel to sleeping dogs — thus I combined the metaphors of shepherding and sleeping dogs to say that they are sleeping sheep dogs. Most of the examples of their failures as sheepdogs has to do...
by Justin Marple | Apr 26, 2012 | COMMUNITY, Monthly Newsletters
On Matthew 6:24… Grace and Peace from Our Lord Jesus Christ! I was reading an article online that pointed out the chiastic structure of Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the...
by Justin Marple | Apr 23, 2012 | John Flavel, Quotes, REVIEWS
Of the Sacraments What is the main Use and End of Sacraments? A. It is to ratify and confirm God’s Covenant with Believers, Rom 4:21 And he received the Sign of Circumcision, a Seal of the Righteousness of the Faith, that he had yet being uncircumcised, &c....
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