A Commentary on the WCF

[Scott Bushey]

Anyone familiar w/ this?

Comments?

 

[crhoades]

I've been looking forward to getting this. Spear contributed a chapter to the Commermoration of the W.A.: To Glorify and Enjoy God, ed. by Carson and Hall entitled The Westminster Confession and Holy Scripture. He traced out the reliance on Whitaker's Disputation on Holy Scripture decisively. He also contributed to the WCF into the 21st Century Vol. I ed. by Duncan on Word and Spirit in the WCF.

Wayne Spear is Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in PA and serves as Clerk of Session of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North Hills, Pittsburgh.

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Faith of Our Fathers: A Commentary on the Westminster Confession of Faith, is a concise book to help readers understand the Confession written over 350 years ago. Wayne Spear gives just enough historical background and paragraph-by-paragraph commentary to help the average lay-person to glean all the treasures the Confession supplies. What is more, Spear demonstrates the value of the Confession in everyday application and devotional use. It keeps us from error and holds up a mirror to self-righteousness. 176 pp. Paper. (Crown & Covenant)

 

[NaphtaliPress]

I have a review copy. It is not a particularly large book and will not replace any older commentaries but it is a good addition to that literature it seems to me and easily read. Not surprisingly, being RP, he says this regarding WCF 21 and psalm singing:

Elements of Worship
Section 5 sets forth the ordinary elements of public worship: reading of Scripture (having its own importance in worship apart from preaching); preaching and hearing the Word; singing of psalms; administration of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper. To understand in more detail what the Assembly believed about each of these, see the Directory for Publick Worship.

The Assembly advocated the exclusive use of the biblical Psalms in praise. With this as the only approved manual for praise, the assembly produced a metrical Psalter containing only the 150 Psalms. The Assembly's Psalter was later revised in Scotland and became the Scottish Psalter of 1650.

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Wayne R. Spear is the brother-in-law of my former pastor. It's a decent commentary, strong on worship but less so on the civil magistrate.