Bill,

Nice post. The same exhortations can be directed at many of us presbyterians as well! The reformed faith is about far more than a few isolated distinctives--it is the system of truth revealed in the Scriptures. We would all do well to have much more familiarity with the whole system! I just came across this statement in Manton today that goes along with this idea.

5. Order is a help to memory. Heads of doctrine are as cells wherein to bestow all things that are heard from the word. He that is well instructed in the principles of religion will most easily and firmly remember divine truths. Methodus est catena memoriae, to link truths one to another, that we may consider them in their proportion.

Sounds like a good reason to catechize!

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Rev. Adam King
Minister in the RPCNA
Pastor-Elect awaiting installation at Trinity Reformed Church
Wichita, KS