[quote=Backwoods Presbyterian;443547] Quote:
Originally Posted by panta dokimazete  Quote:
Originally Posted by Backwoods Presbyterian Thomas Aquinas, who is more Roman than anyone in history, also wrote against the use of instruments in worship.
The premise seems very weak.
Not sure what your point is?
15 I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat beasts,
With the smoke of rams;
I shall make an offering of bulls with male goats. Selah.
? | 1) Aquinas, as many others of the time, used the phrase "of the Jews" to describe the old economy.
2) If the Psalms are proscriptive for NT worship (as you claim) why do you not follow what they teach completely? | Yes but dont we offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God? Which is a matter of conviction to conversion to deliverance. Since we are to go to God and tell Him what we want to do, since that is our response to His demands in the covenant, but since they did not remind themselves daily as we preach to ourselves so that we are being obedient in this form of delivering us from ever thinking that this is all He wants. Because even in the old testament they did not depend upon the means as being able to make them acceptable to God. Since in other Psalms it was more than just the sacrifice that David understood. They had a gospel understanding by the Holy Spirit in some ways that was more real by their longing than we take for granted today looking back. This was a conviction that David was going to be single hearted by His longing to understanding of the future Redeemer. So that in this way he saw the means as just the means.
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Tom
New Life PCA
Florida
He means that no part of our life is to be unoccupied, and to afford room, as it were, for the wish to enjoy some other object, but that whatever else may suggest itself to us as an object worthy of love is to be borne into the same channel in which the whole current of our affections flows. Augustine
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