Grant
Puritan Board Graduate
I picked up this little booklet thanks to a snippet shared by @Reformed Covenanter . Thus far, I can immediately tell it is going to be very edifying and full of jewels and I’m only on page 5. A quote from Pg. 4-5:
I. What is the doctrine of Scripture as understood by Presbyterians in regard to the acceptable way of worshipping God?
The importance of this question as practically settling the whole debate needs not to be argued. Man as a sinner, as all true Christians will admit, has no right to approach into God’s presence at all. The amity which previously existed in Eden was broken up by the fall. God “drove out the man,“ and He alone is entitled to say whether, and on what conditions, he shall ever again be permitted to approach His throne. It is manifest presumption on the part of fallen creatures to dictate to God either that there shall be worship at all or what form it shall assume. In entering the courts of earthly monarchs, even where a right to enter is conceded, every rule and form of the court must be carefully observed; and far more is this important in the entering, by gracious permission, into the immediate presence of the King of kings and Lord of lords.
I. What is the doctrine of Scripture as understood by Presbyterians in regard to the acceptable way of worshipping God?
The importance of this question as practically settling the whole debate needs not to be argued. Man as a sinner, as all true Christians will admit, has no right to approach into God’s presence at all. The amity which previously existed in Eden was broken up by the fall. God “drove out the man,“ and He alone is entitled to say whether, and on what conditions, he shall ever again be permitted to approach His throne. It is manifest presumption on the part of fallen creatures to dictate to God either that there shall be worship at all or what form it shall assume. In entering the courts of earthly monarchs, even where a right to enter is conceded, every rule and form of the court must be carefully observed; and far more is this important in the entering, by gracious permission, into the immediate presence of the King of kings and Lord of lords.