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Thomas Ridgley on the Second Commandment
The following is an excerpt from Thomas Ridgley’s, “A Body of Divinity, wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are explained and defended: being the substance of several lectures on the Assembly’s Larger catechism” (pp. 328-335 of Volume 2 of the 1855 edition) THE SECOND COMMANDMENT. Question CVII. Which is the second commandment? Answer. The…
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Temporary Faith – Thomas Ridgley
There is another kind of faith, which has some things in common with saving faith, and is sometimes mistaken for it, but is vastly different from it. This, in some, is called an historical faith; and in others, by reason of the short continuance thereof, a temporary faith. An historical faith is that whereby persons…
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Thomas Ridgley on the Sixth Commandment
The following in Thomas Ridgeley’s commentary on the Westminster Larger Catechism’s Questions relating to the Sixth Commandment. I have omitted the footnotes and a rather lengthy editors note that appeared in the 1855 edition. Hopefully this commentary will prove to supplement Dr. White’s timely response to John Piper’s apparent denial of the Christians right and…
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Old but Good Books from Google
There are a remarkable number of good old books available in whole or in part at Google Books. Here is a list of a few that I have come across recently. I’ll begin with the what seems to me to be the gem of the collection (links are to Google Books except as noted otherwise):…