I. All Elements Of Public Worship Must Be Commanded
1. John Knox- Article by Scott
2. John Calvin & John Calvin Article by Scott
3. G.I. Williamson- Worship
4.Thomas Manton- Why God Must Command All Worship, Volume 15, pages 349-352
5.Thomas Vincent Shorter Catechism Explained By Scripture, Pages 117-120
6.Thomas Watson- A Godly Man Is Careful About True Worship, Fifth point on the link
4. Rob McCurley
II. New Testament Worship Is Very Simple
1. John Owen, Gospel Worship
2. Thomas Boston- Second point on the second commandment
III. God Abhors All False Worship
Thomas Brooks- Stand Against All Mixtures In False Worship
John Flavel-
Thomas Vincent- Shorter Catechism Explained By Scripture, Question 13 Page 123-126
IV. God Abhors Bringing Back Old Testament Worship
1. No Musical Instruments
G.I. Williamson –“Instruments in Public Worship: Commanded or Not Commanded?”
R.L. Dabney – “Girardeau’s ‘Instruments in Public Worship’ – A Review”
Hugh Brown – “Discourse Against the Use of Instrumental Music in Public Worship”
Mark Fitzpatrick – Instrumental Music And Worship
Robert McCurley – “Musical Instruments in Worship”
Steven Dilday – “History of the Service of Song”
John Girardeau – “Instrumental Music in the Worship of the Church”
Brian Schwertley – “Musical Instruments in the Public Worship of God”
2. No Holy Days
G.I. Williamson – “Holy Days of Men and Holy Days of God”
Samuel Miller – “Presbyterians Do Not Observe Holy Days”
Steven Dilday – Various sermons on the history of holy days (Christmas, Easter, etc.)
George Gillespie-English And Popish Ceremonies
a. Christmas
Increase Mather Against Profane Christmas Keeping
Arthur Pink Xmas
L.R. Shelton http://www.radiomissions.org/sermons/xmas.html
The Free Presbterian Church Of Scotland Should Christians Celebrate Christmas?
b. Halloween
David Silversides- A Biblical Assessment
c. Birthdays
3. No Choirs
Free Presbyterian Church Magazine – “The Case Against the Choir”
V. God Abhors Bringing In Roman Catholic Worship
1. No Uninspired Hymns
John Chalmers – Sermon on exclusive psalmody published in 1900
John Murray – “Song in the Public Worship of God”
G.I. Williamson – “The Singing of Psalms in the Worship of God”
John Gill – “A Discourse on Singing of Psalms as a Part of Divine Worship”
John Cotton – The Singing Of Psalms A Gospel Ordinance-
Brian Schwertley “Exclusive Psalmody: A Biblical Defense”
Mark Fitzpatrick- Should We Sing Anything Except The Psalms?
Rob McCurley –The Singing of Psalms
Malcolm Watts- Singing Psalms
2. No Creeds
Travis Fentiman- Creeds Are Not An Element Of Public Worship
3. No Pictures of Christ
John Murray – “Pictures of Christ”
Thomas Watson – “The Second Commandment” (from “The Ten Commandments“)
G.I. Williamson – “Pictures of Christ” (part of a tract on the Second Commandment)
4. No Kneeling At The Lord’s Supper
George Gillespie, English and Popish Ceremonies pages 47-80
5. No Funeral Services For Dead
Covenanter Magazine – “Evils in the Churches No. 6 – Services at the Burial of the Dead”
Alexander Henderson- Reformation Of Church Government In Scotland
Thomas McCrie- Free Thoughts On The Celebration of Funerals
VI. God Abhors Bringing Protestant Inventions In Worship
1. Headcoverings
John Calvin – “Calvin on Headcoverings”
David Dickson – “The Seventh Article Concerning Order and Decency” Chapter 6 of “Commentaries on the Epistles“)
David Silversides – “Is Headcovering Biblical?
David Silversides – Sermons on Women’s Headcoverings
Mark Fitzpatrick- Headship and Headcovering
Malcolm Watts-Headcovering Overview
Malcolm Watts- Headcovering
2. No Deaconesses
Ron Gleason – “The PCA and Female Deaconesses”
Brian Schwertley – “A Historical and Biblical Examination of Women Deaconesses”
3. No Voting for women
Thomas McCrie -Women Voting
VII. When we take part in false worship we become idolaters
1. George Gillespie
VIII. God promises to bring destruction on Idolatry
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