The Holy Simplicity of Reformed Catholicism

"God is able to make common bread and wine a most effectual sacrament...both by the work of the Holy Spirit and by the institution of the Lord." Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562)

"The Decline of the Mainline & its consequences have been a disaster for the human race"

Margaret Wilson, Covenanter Martyr of Wigtown. Born 1667 near Wigtown, Scotland, she would become a martyr at the age of 18 for her refusal to swear the Oath of supremacy, declaring only Christ is King and head of the church. She died as the tide rose singing Psalm 25.

"Have you sinned? Come to Church. Tell God, 'I have sinned.' I do not demand anything else of you than this. Holy Scripture states, 'Be the first one to tell of your transgressions that you may be justified.' Admit the sin to annul it. This requires neither labor nor a circuit of

Until Mormons can confess the ecumenical creeds, they have a different Jesus

Duff Darren Colwell Matt Emerson Drew Grumbles Duff, This is perhaps the most ignorant argument that the Anabaptists (who made it first) and the Baptists make. The fathers who were baptizing the children of believers in the 2nd and 3rd centuries were doing so centuries before there was a Roman Catholic church. Tertullian

"Christ's flesh is truly food, and his blood truly drink, and by these foods believers are nourished unto eternal life." John Calvin Institutes 4.17.8

Habemus presbyteros

Genuine question for Protestants: where is John Calvin in the Bible? If he’s not there, does this not contradict sola scriptura?

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Brigham Young’s 56th Wife Guzzling Tylenol Badger C.B. 🇸🇴🌲⚖️ Many of the rigid Presbyterian confessionalists will end up being doggedly low church in all the obnoxious ways and forget to balance it out with the sacramental efficacy of the confessions and Reformers. “Of course we don’t celebrate Easter or Christmas! We are descended from

The covenant made with all the patriarchs is so much like ours in substance and reality that the two are actually one and the same [the Covenant of Grace]. Yet they differ in the mode of dispensation. —Calvin Institutes 2.10.2

Happy Feast of St. John Calvin! 🙏🏽

When we [pray], although we desire what is advantageous for ourselves, we ought also especially to seek the glory of God. —Calvin Institutes 3.20.35

This is one of the public failings of contemporary Anglicanism: we had a distinctive dress that gave us a particular identity and we threw it away to LARP in imitation of a denomination that doesn’t even recognise the validity of our Orders.

The Oxford movement and its consequences have been a disaster for the Anglican communion.

“Even if all men are liars and faithless, still God does not cease to be trustworthy. Even if all men are lost, still Christ remains salvation.”