The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Cessation of Special Revelation
In the opening chapter of the Westminster Confession, the divines of Westminster included a clause that implied that there would no longer be any special immediate revelation form God. Means by which God had once communicated the divine will, such as dreams, visions, and the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, were said to be no longer available. However, many of the authors of the WCF accepted that “prophecy” continued in their time, and a number of them apparently believed that disclosure of God’s will through dreams, visions, and angelic communication remained possible. How is the “cessationist” clause of WCF 1:1 to be read in light of these claims? This book reconciles this paradox in a detailed study of the writings of the authors of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
The Christian in an Age of Terror
These sermons of Lloyd-Jones were preached at Westminster Chapel during and following the Second World War. When the nations of Europe were engaged in fierce combat over issues of immense moral and ethical importance, it was Lloyd-Jones who proclaimed how Christians should view the threat of evil, persecution, and suffering. The Christian in an Age of Terror is remarkably relevant, then, for our own time as it speaks directly to our current world political and religious situation. All readers will find hope, encouragement, and a balanced view of how Christians should live during an “age of terror.”
The Works of Thomas Adams
Adams’s sermons have been admired since their first printing: they “placed him beyond all comparison in the van of the preachers of England, and had something to do with shaping John Bunyan…His numerous works display great learning, classical and patristic, and are unique in their abundance of stories, anecdotes, aphorisms, and puns” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., 1:181) Vol. 1: Sermons of the Old Testament Vol. 2: Sermons of the New Testament Vol. 3: Sermons of the New Testament and Meditations on the Apostles’ Creed
