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Dr. Clark, I listened to this episode with the intention of sharing it and the entire series with others. However, I took offense at your comment regarding the Covenanters. I’ve been studying their history for 20 years and while we might look back and find fault with them, let’s not forget that they spilled their blood like water over Scotland for the Covenant and Crown Rights of Jesus Christ. How could theologians like George Gillespie, Samuel Rutherford and even John Knox be found wrong? Much less those men of the Covenant like Richard Cameron and James Renwick? I agree none of us are perfect, but I plan to look these men in the face in glory with a clear conscience knowing I respected and honored them and the Scottish Covenanters who followed them.
Angela,
My comments are no sleight toward my brothers and sisters in the RPCNA. If you ask them, you will find that I am one of their biggest cheerleaders. Indeed, I gave serious thought and prayer to joining them but there were two obstacles I could not overcome. I am convinced that Scripture requires us, in stated worship services (as distinct from chapel devotions etc), to reply to God’s Word with God’s Word. I doubt, however, that Scripture requires us to reply to him only with the Psalms. I would submit happily, however, should the URCs decide to sing Psalms only. Second, the biblical and historical case for the National Covenant and the Mediatorial Kingship of Christ is quite weak. The former is an error insofar as it fails to distinguish the unique place that national Israel had in the history of redemption. The latter, was rejected by Perkins, Rutherford, and Gillespie quite pointedly as “popish.” Christ rules all things, including the state, in his general providence. He is Mediator over the church specially.
Even the RPCNA has given up on the national covenant. So, the only issue that remains on that score is their doctrine of the Mediatorial Kingship, and I’m with Perkins, Rutherford, and Gillespie on that. See these for references:
Thank you for your thoughtful response. I appreciate you and will check out the references you listed. May the good Lord bless you as you seek to serve Him.