Linked Together: People You Should Know

Isaac Watts
May must be Isaac Watts Month at Ligonier Ministries Blog. Through the end of May — only a few days away, so you’ll need to hurry — you can download an eBook edition of Douglas Bond’s The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts. (Isaac Watts is the poet who wrote the words to When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, which is, according to me, the best English language hymn ever written.)

You can also read a few posted excerpts from this book.

• Isaac Watts: A Child Poet
• Isaac Watts: His Rhymed Sermons
• Isaac Watts: Hymns for All Time
• Isaac Watts: The Calvinist 

Lady Jane Grey
I’ve linked to a couple of things on the life of Lady Jane Grey previously. Now, Aimee Byrd quotes from her letters to Heinrich Bullinger and says the are “a great example of appropriate Christian friendship.”

Theological Term of the Week

Prophetic Books
Seventeen books of the Old Testament containing written collections of oracles of sixteen prophets. These can be divided into two groups: Major Prophets—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentation, Ezekiel, and Daniel—and Minor Prophets—Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

• The introduction to the book of Isaiah:

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. (Isaiah 1:1 ESV)

• The introduction to the book of Jeremiah:

The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. (Jeremiah 1:1-3 ESV)

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Heidelberg Catechism

Question 37. What do you confess when you say the words, “He suffered”?

Answer: That Christ, during all the time that he lived on earth, but especially at the end of his life, bore in body and soul, the wrath of God against the sin of the human race (a), so that by his suffering, as the only propitiatory sacrifice, (b) he has redeemed our body and soul from everlasting damnation, (c) and obtain for us the favour of God, righteousness, and eternal life. (d)

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