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| Video Discription | The Two Witnesses -by David Steele. Subscribe to the pamphlet program for $10 a month here: http://covenanter.org/pamphlets This pamphlet is also available for purchase as an individual pamphlet. One great fact separated the claims of the Romish party from those of Protestants. In defense of which doctrines were biblical and which were not, the early Protestants confidently asserted that not one controverted truth between them had been sealed by the blood of the martyrs. Papal supremacy, purgatory, transubstantiation, the cult of the saints, and other corruptions of doctrine and practice, never had the support of the "witnessing church" (especially as exemplified in the martyrs). Witness-bearing, or testimony-bearing, has always been the duty of Christ's "flock of slaughter" (cf. Zech. 11:4). Thus, in the great controversy with the seed of the serpent, they loved not their lives unto death (cf. Rev. 12:11). Their answer before their persecutors turns to them (and subsequently to us as their successors) for a testimony, or martyrdom (μαρτύριον; cf. Luke 21:13). If Jesus, by His Spirit, has called men and women to die for certain truths, we do not have the luxury of treating those truths as of secondary import unless we would be numbered with those who put them to death (cf. Matt. 23:29-33). Martyrs embody the true identity of the witnessing church. Just as early Christian martyrs died to establish the claims of Christ's office of prophet against paganism; at the Reformation, Protestant martyrs died to establish Christ's office of priest against popery. "The Two Witnesses" sets forth the Protestant doctrine of witnessing with express emphasis on the claims of the Scottish martyrs. In Scotland, the LORD was pleased to call believers to die for the truth of Christ's office of king against all who would exalt the claims of the state over the church. The Reformed Presbyterian church, claiming its descent from the Covenanters and their martyrs, pressed these claims of Christ's kingship upon other professing Presbyterians as well as Protestants in general. It is fundamental dishonesty to seek to be called Covenanters when there is no regard for the just applications of those covenanting principles sealed by the blood of Covenanter martyrs. Unlike the modern effeminate, effete and cowardly poseurs that try to lay claim to the title of Covenanter, David Steele did not shrink from pressing these core Covenanter principles regarding the witnessing church. He was a real Covenanter—an original Covenanter—whose great ecclesiastical crime was his consistency and adherence to the truth once delivered. May the LORD deliver us from those who wish to be Covenanters in principle but not in practice. AUTHOR BIO: David Steele was born in Upper Creevaugh, County Donegal, Ireland, November 2, 1803. He came to America in 1824, settling in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where he worked as clerk for his uncle, and prosecuted his classical studies. In 1825, he was engaged as teacher in the Academy of Ebensburgh, Pennsylvania, and the next year entered the Western University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1827. He studied theology under the direction of Rev. Dr. John Black at Pittsburgh, and was licensed by the Pittsburgh Presbytery, April 8, 1830. He was ordained by the Ohio Presbytery, and installed pastor of the congregation of Brush Creek, Adams County, Ohio, June 6, 1831. In 1840, he and Robert Lusk, together with several ruling elders, declined the ecclesiastical courts of the Reformed Presbyterian Church due to ecclesiastical tyranny. They erected the Reformed Presbytery, June 24, 1840. He remained in Adams County, Ohio, preaching to adherents of the Reformed Presbytery until 1859, when he removed to Hill Prairie, Illinois. In October, 1866, he removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he pastored a small congregation of original Covenanters and established a theological school. In 1885, he removed to Galesburg, Illinois, and in the fall of 1886, returned to Philadelphia, where he died of old age and from the effects of a slight stroke of paralysis, June 29, 1887. |
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