Quotes Dec 5

"For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by Him, the slaves of sin that He may give us freedom, blind that He may enlighten, lame that He may cure, and feeble that He may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all grounds of glorying that He alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in Him?" -- John Calvin, Letter to the King of France.

A church that does not say the historic creeds on a regular basis is like a nation that does not remember her 'War of independence' or her 'fFight for Freedom'. She has forgotten where she has come from. She has forgotten who she is. She has despised her mother. For the great historic creeds are the wisdom of her mother passed down through the centuries and across the millennia. Ignorance can be excuse to a point, but not ingratitude. Our mother Kirk has left us with a rich inheritance and we would do well to guard the good deposit with thanksgiving. -Jonathan Gibson and Mark Earngey, Worshipping in the tradition. Principles from the past for the present.  in Reformation Worship,P63

If necessary, the ministers of the word are admonished not to go too much beyond the school of their text in their preaching. Rather they should as much as possible take all their ugh teaching, admonishment,exhortaton, rebuke, and comfort from the present text . -Martin Micronius, On the preaching of the word, ch 8 in Reformation Worship,P517