{"id":340,"date":"2015-11-04T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastormathis.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T19:58:59","slug":"the-mystery-of-godliness-and-other-sermons-a-short-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/04\/the-mystery-of-godliness-and-other-sermons-a-short-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Godliness and Other Sermons, A short review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mystery of Godliness and Other Sermons<\/a><\/em>, John Calvin<\/p>\n

This collection of sermons is based upon the Pastoral Epistles (1 & 2 Timothy and Titus) and expounds a wide variety of doctrine and practices.\u00a0 From the truth of election and salvation to the requirement of godliness and prayer, Calvin\u2019s addresses clearly express a pastor\u2019s heart while articulating a scholar\u2019s grasp of the Bible.\u00a0 With fourteen sermons at about fifteen pages apiece, this book becomes good food for meditation and contemplation.<\/p>\n

Being a translation from 1580 and transported to America in 1830, it is written in the style of the King James Bible, but without much of the grammatical oddities.\u00a0 Calvin\u2019s sermons are also more direct than our sensitive ears may be accustomed to hear (as even the original preface of this book points out).\u00a0 He spoke and wrote during a time of great upheaval and direct confrontation with heresies and lies; thus, he was very zealous to comfort and<\/em> guard the flock, \u201cLet us therefore endeavor to bring back those that have strayed\u2026but when [some]\u2026make confusion in the church\u2026we must not spare them, because the whole salvation of the people of God is in danger.\u201d (p.172).\u00a0 He also has no problems calling public enemies of the gospel \u201cmad beasts\u201d (p.40).<\/p>\n

For those without a fear of older writing styles and plain speech, this little treasure will encourage the reader to take the biblical commands of truth and obedience to heart.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mystery of Godliness and Other Sermons, John Calvin This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastormathis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}