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Chris Coldwell (NaphtaliPress) has published Presbyterian & Reformed books since 1987. He is the editor of The Confessional Presbyterian journal, an annual publication containing scholarly articles from a Confessional Presbyterian perspective by men from the many conservative Presbyterian & Reformed denominations today. He has a particular interest in the text of the Westminster Standards, and a critical text of the Larger Catechism is running serially in the journal beginning with the 2007 issue.

John Brown of Wamphray: Singing of Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs in Public Worship

Posted 10-07-2007 at 08:33 PM by NaphtaliPress (A Confessional Presbyterian's Blog)
Updated 03-11-2008 at 12:26 PM by NaphtaliPress (modify footnotes with jumps)

The following is the introduction to the In Translatione entry for the 2007 issue of The Confessional Presbyterian journal, p. 276, which should begin shipping to subscribers this week, D.V.

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John Brown of Wamphray
Singing of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
in the Public Worship of God
From De Causa Dei contra Antisabbatarios

John Brown of Wamphray, an exiled minister of the Church of Scotland, was the most important Scottish theologian of the period

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Unsaving Faith

Posted 09-28-2007 at 08:58 AM by NaphtaliPress (A Confessional Presbyterian's Blog)

The following extract comes from James Durham, Christ Crucified: Or, the Marrow of the Gospel in Seventy-Two Sermons on the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah (Naphtali Press: 2001; 2007) 72; 90-91. See the Naphtali Press Store to purchase this book; a nice review is here.

Isaiah 53:1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

4. Consider that when he complains of the [lack] of faith to the report and tidings of the gospel, it...

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A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism 7: Q. 12 & 13

Posted 09-27-2007 at 11:09 AM by NaphtaliPress (A Confessional Presbyterian's Blog)

A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism: Q. 1–50

Q. 12. What are the decrees of God?
A. God’s decrees are the wise, free, and holy acts of the counsel of his will,t whereby, from all eternity, he hath, for his own glory, unchangeably foreordained whatsoever comes to pass in time;u especially concerning angels and men.
t. Eph. 1:11; Rom. 11:33; Rom. 9:14–15, 18.
u. Eph. 1:4, 11; Rom. 9:22–23; Ps. 33:11.

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The Universal Visible Church

Posted 09-23-2007 at 10:02 AM by NaphtaliPress (A Confessional Presbyterian's Blog)

The following is posted in its original form in PDF format at the CPJ website.

In Translatione
John Brown of Wamphray
The Universal Visible Church
From the Preface to Libri Duo

Presented here is a first time translation of a portion of the preface to a Latin work known as Libri Duo, by John Brown of Wamphray (c.1610–1679). Brown was a friend and contemporary of Samuel Rutherford, who had “a great love to dear Mr. John Brown because” he thought he...

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A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism 6: Q. 3 & 4

Posted 09-23-2007 at 09:17 AM by NaphtaliPress (A Confessional Presbyterian's Blog)

[To drum up interest in CPJ, I will be running extracts from “A Critical Text of the Westminster Larger Catechism: Q. 1–50,” which will appear, D.V. in The Confessional Presbyterian 3 (2007) due off the press October 1st. As the work is quite extensive, the full catechism will be presented seriatim across several issues, again Lord willing. NB. Bolded text denotes a variation in wording rather than simply punctuation or other variants less significant .]

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