In a shameless knock-off of the Pyromaniacs' practice of providing a
weekly dose of Spurgeon, here we start a new feature: Presbyterian
Profundity, featuring quotations from a bunch of old, dead guys who
lived, to quote Spinal Tap on Stonehenge, hundreds of years before the
beginning of history.
First out of the blocks is B B Warfield. There is fine picture of him as a young man which owned by the PCA Historical Center, fronting their webpage,which is, by the way, an excellent source for information and documents not just on the PCA but on American confessional Presbyterianism in general.
Here is what he has to say about worldliness in his essay `New Testament Puritanism' in Faith and Life:
We see, then, that the Apostle's urgency here [2 Cor. 6:11 - 7:1] is against not association with the world, but compromise with the worldly. Compromise! In that one word is expressed a very large part of a Christian's danger in the world. We see it on all sides of us and in every sphere of life. We must be all things to all men, we say, perverting the Apostle's prescription for a working ministry; for there was one thing he would on no account and in no way have us be, even that we may, as we foolishly fancy, win the more; and that is, evil. From evil in all its forms and in all its manifestations he would have us absolutely to separate ourselves; the unclean thing is the thing he would in no circumstances have us handle. Associate with the world, yes! There is no man in it so vile that he has not claims upon us for our association and for our aid. But adopt the standards of the world? No! Not in the least particular. Here our motto must be and that unfailingly: No compromise! Keep Reading...
First out of the blocks is B B Warfield. There is fine picture of him as a young man which owned by the PCA Historical Center, fronting their webpage,which is, by the way, an excellent source for information and documents not just on the PCA but on American confessional Presbyterianism in general.
Here is what he has to say about worldliness in his essay `New Testament Puritanism' in Faith and Life:
We see, then, that the Apostle's urgency here [2 Cor. 6:11 - 7:1] is against not association with the world, but compromise with the worldly. Compromise! In that one word is expressed a very large part of a Christian's danger in the world. We see it on all sides of us and in every sphere of life. We must be all things to all men, we say, perverting the Apostle's prescription for a working ministry; for there was one thing he would on no account and in no way have us be, even that we may, as we foolishly fancy, win the more; and that is, evil. From evil in all its forms and in all its manifestations he would have us absolutely to separate ourselves; the unclean thing is the thing he would in no circumstances have us handle. Associate with the world, yes! There is no man in it so vile that he has not claims upon us for our association and for our aid. But adopt the standards of the world? No! Not in the least particular. Here our motto must be and that unfailingly: No compromise! Keep Reading...
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