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The Arminian Doctrine of Infant Damnation Having noticed one objection to the doctrine of predestination, we proceed to a second, viz. "It leads to the idea of infant damnation;" "brings with it the repulsive and shocking opinion of the eternal punishment of infants;" "causes not only children not a span long, but the parents also, to pass through the fires of hell."The above are samples of the manner in which this charge is reiterated by every controversial Arminian author that has come under our notice. The reader will be surprised to learn that the "shocking and re-pulsive doctrine" here objected...

Part 1 1 Woe! To the men, on earth who dwell, Nor dread th’ Almighty frown, When God doth all his wrath reveal, And shower his judgments down! Sinners, expect those heaviest showers, To meet your God prepare, When lo! The seventh angel pours His vial in the air! 2 A voice out of the temple cries, And from th’ eternal throne, And all the storms of vengeance rise, When God declares ’TIS DONE! TIS DONE! Ten thousand voices join T’ applaud his righteous ire, And thunders roll, and light’nings shine, That set the world on fire. 3 The mighty...

If one goes by the Pentagon’s recent report on the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, the Pentagon’s PC putzes wouldn’t recognize a Muslim terrorist if one jumped up and bit them on the butt. So in the interest of national security, I have collected some statements made by folks over the years, which might point the Pentagon in the right direction. One lives in hope—the poor dears are awfully slow on the uptake though. “Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it…have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all...

Lots of outrageously outraged e-mails flowing in about this, although it’s interesting to me mainly as a First Amendment curio. The footage comes from Jim Moran’s health-care town hall on Tuesday night. The question: Can a congressman bar signs, or certain types of signs, from an event at which he’s speaking? The answer (and the ambiguity) turns, I assume, on whether the event is “public” or “private.” It’s a public school and Moran is very much a public official, but recall that Claire McCaskill evidently got away with imposing a “no signs” policy at her own town hall where the...

AN Islamic organisation warning of the return of an empire founded 700 years ago has hacked into the website of a Wollongong church and published disturbing images and messages. For several days, anyone who visited the website of Wollongong's Wesley Church was greeted by anti-war messages flanked by pictures of the Turkish flag, masked soldiers and an image of US President George W Bush with a cross over his face. While the text on the www.wollongongmission.unitingchurch.org.au website was not in English, other websites on the internet hacked by the same group, AdReNaLin, identified those responsible as "sons of the Ottoman...

Imagine, if you will, that you are a missionary. You have taken the classes you will need to get around in this new country. You know the common language well enough. You understand the customs and are confidant you won’t make a scene your first day on the ground. There has been very little progress made in this locale, and that is why you were sent. It is your first missionary assignment, and you hope that God will use you to do great things among the people. You are in a high place. The top of a building, or maybe...

Wesley Clark exploits his fellow Vietnam veteran’s bad combat luck to disparage his service record Sent to http://securingamerica.com/feedback Dear General Clark, I am copying you on this piece, which I am posting to several blogs to which I write, because I don’t need to say behind someone’s back what I won’t say to his face. Furthermore, I added the word “sickening” in the subject line for those blogs. Per “Clark hits McCain’s military credentials” at http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080629/pl_politico/11425, you said “I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and...

Wesley Snipes got some of his famous buddies to write letters to the judge who is sentencing him for tax fraud, asking for mercy. Noted pothead Woody Harrelson wrote about racism. Going well off-track, Woody recounted how he was shooting "Wildcats" and that he and Goldie Hawn were the only Caucasians on the production team. Harrelson said a few of the folks were fans of Louis Farrakhan. Woody wrote, "It was the first time I experienced racism toward me." Denzel Washington says that Wes is like "a tree -- a mighty oak." What the hell does he mean by that,...

ROME (CNS) -- Catholics, Anglicans and Methodists filled Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls with some of the most famous hymns written by Charles Wesley at a service marking the 300th anniversary of the Methodist reformer's birth. The songs, featured in hymnals across denominational lines, were the focal point of the Dec. 3 ecumenical evening prayer service in the Catholic basilica. The Rev. John Barrett, president of the World Methodist Council said, "It was mind-blowing really" to celebrate Wesley and sing his hymns "in Rome with an ecumenical gathering." "I think Charles Wesley would be thrilled. He did...

For nine years I served the Lord Jesus Christ as a United Methodist pastor in New Jersey; for five of those years I had no thought of being anything else. I had a growing church, I was happy in my denomination and pleased with my prospects, and I was satisfied. I believed that denominations were not only inevitable but good. Since Christians would always disagree about their beliefs and practices, having different denominations kept them from fighting. I didn’t believe that visible unity was necessary for the Church, nor doctrinal unity. At the same time I insisted strongly on my...

...the United States will be defined by our environment, both our physical environment and our legal, Constitutional environment...we must do more to protect our natural resources, enabling us to extend their economic value indefinitely... We may also have to assist market-driven adjustments... with transparency and accountability,....we will assure continued access to the courts... and a vibrant competitive media that informs our people and enables their effective participation in civic life... If we are to remain competitive we will have to do more to develop our "human potential." ... we should help every American...For some this means only providing a framework...

When painting the portraits of great figures in the history of Christendom, we have a distinct tendency to airbrush the warts. Hagiography is the perennial and natural temptation of the devout historian. When it comes to church history, the love that "believes all things" (I Cor. 13:7), does not always exhibit the serpentine wisdom enjoined by Christ (Matt. 10:16). The problem is complicated by the secular myth surrounding the study of history, i.e., that it is a value-free, neutral discipline. Under the cover of this myth, the secularist historian debunks various popular heroes from the past. This type of debunking...

Because of Iraq IRAQ VETERANS TAKE ON “THESE ARE THE STAKES” OSAMA BIN LADEN AD IN NEW AD OF THEIR OWN vv_becausetv.jpg Blunt new ad says the world is more dangerous… because of Iraq NEW YORK – VoteVets Action Fund, a 501 (c)4 made up of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, is today unveiling an ad that directly takes on the now-infamous “These Are the Stakes” ad that began airing earlier this month. Featuring four Iraq veterans and VoteVets.org Advisory Board Member, retired General Wesley Clark, the ad reminds Americans that the next time they see ads declaring the world is...

I have a small group lesson on prayer I would like to give based on the John Wesley quote "God will do nothing, but in answer to prayer." I need some help finding the John Wesley sermon that this quote comes from. Or if anyone knows some resource that would validate whether or not that this quote is Biblically sound. I had never heard this before I came across this lesson nor have I ever heard of this concept. I find the idea intreaguing, but am hesitant to present a lesson where I am not familiar with the background. Any...

Wesley Snipes was indicted Tuesday in Tampa, Fla., on conspiracy to defraud the IRS and failing to file income tax returns. The Blade actor and two other men, Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas P. Rosile, are charged with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud the IRS for falsely claiming nearly $12 million in refunds. Snipes, 44, is also charged with six counts of failing to file tax returns for the years 1999 through 2004. ... A warrant has been issued for his arrest... According to the indictment, Kahn was the founder of American Rights Litigators and its successor, Guiding Light...

Whitefield's Letter to Wesley George Whitefield Bethesda in Georgia, Dec. 24, 1740 Reverend and very dear Brother, God only knows what unspeakable sorrow of heart I have felt on your account since I left England last. Whether it be my infirmity or not, I frankly confess, that Jonah could not go with more reluctance against Nineveh, than I now take pen in hand to write against you. Was nature to speak, I had rather die than do it; and yet if I am faithful to God, and to my own and others' souls, I must not stand neutral any longer....

Tape Shows General Clark Linking Iraq and Al Qaeda NY Times ^ | Jan. 12, 2004 | EDWARD WYATT MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 11 — Less than a year before he entered the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Gen. Wesley K. Clark said that he believed there was a connection between the Iraqi government and Al Qaeda. The statement by General Clark in October 2002 as he endorsed a New Hampshire candidate for Congress is a sign of how the general's position on Iraq seems to have changed over time, though he insists his position has been consistent. "Certainly...

When Wes Clark ran for President, I was all for it. Here was a guy, the former commander of NATO who wanted to become the President. Soon thereafter I realized that just because Clark came from the military, he certainly was not a conservative. Clark took the pulpit to criticize Bush on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea without really putting together any ideas of what he would have done differently except that he would have built a 'coalition'. In a speech to the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors Association, Clark said that because of the recent round of military...

Federal law enforcement officials call a Nutley man a ``dangerous predator.'' Kevin Hildreth has admitted sexually assaulting nine children and videotaping at least two having sex in the basement of a church where he was an assistant scoutmaster. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to federal charges of crossing state lines to sexually assault a child and possession of child pornography. Hildreth was arrested in June as part of an international child porn Internet investigation. He told investigators that he had fondled or raped nine boys in the past 16 years. The victims ranged in age from four to 13. One was...

(text from the 1872 edition) Preached on Sunday April 4, 1742, before the University of Oxford, by the Rev. Charles Wesley, M.A. Student of Christ-Church. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." Ephesians 5:14 In discoursing on these words, I shall, with the help of God, -- First. Describe the sleepers, to whom they are spoken: Secondly. Enforce the exhortation, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead:" And, Thirdly. Explain the promise made to such as do awake and arise: "Christ shall give thee light." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. 1. And...

Wesley Clark's political career: Born 2003, died 2004. A little while ago, I compared Wes Clark's roman candle of a presidential campaign to inexplicable and regrettable momentary fads, like flash mobs, the XFL, Tickle-Me-Elmo, or New Coke. Wes Clark's just-barely-in-primetime address Thursday evening was like an edition of VH1's "I Love The 80s." For a brief moment, it was "I Love September 2003," the month Clark's campaign with a photo on the cover of Newsweek. But Clark's campaign destructed. He was the one who invited Michael Moore on stage with him, where the filmmaker could ignite the empty "deserter" attack....

  CHAPTER XI. Two Sorts of Methodists. Whitefield's Calvinism.--Arminians.--" The Queen of the Methodists."-- Trevecca College.-- Lady Huntingdon's Connection.--Time Heals the Wounds.--Whitefield's Candle Burns to the Socket. WHILE John Wesley was organizing societies and building preaching houses in England, George Whitefield was ranging through the American colonies kindling the old churches into new zeal by his flaming eloquence. He returned to England in March, 1741, prepared to take issue with his former leader on the doctrine of election. His intercourse with the New England Calvinists had made him a militant opponent of the doctrine of universal redemption as taught by...

Our Maronite Church has acquired an old churh that was boarded up for the past 50 years. It is located in Watervliet NY. Inside the church, there is a large sign that I presume once hung outside. It reads: Ohio Street Methodist Episcopal Church - 1850 The interior, despite peeling paint, missing plaster and years of accumulated dust, is just magnificent. We are applying to the NYS Historic Register, to have the building recognized. They have suggested that we try to find the name of the architect. In the meantime, one of their staff visited the building this week. He...

It’s the 2004 Democrat Veep Pageant!who’s gonna win???

THE REFORMATION OF BAPTISM FOR AMERICAN METHODISTS (Incomplete) I. Introduction There is so much division in the Church over Baptism that it must surely grieve the Lord Jesus very much. It seems that the very idea of sharing the joy of salvation with fellow Christians is undermined by doubts concerning Baptism. The nagging question of who is and who is not a true Christian sometimes revolves around Baptism, especially when we ignore other evidence in the life of an individual pointing to a right relationship with God. It is my purpose here to put forth an ecumenical view around which...

Calvin and Wesley on the Christian Life Richard M. Riss Glenwood Presbyterian Church, Glenwood Landing, NY Meeting jointly withThe United Methodist Church of Sea Cliff, NY August 2, 1998 With respect to the Christian life, most of what John Wesley said in the eighteenth century was in perfect agreement with what John Calvin had said two centuries previously during the time of the Reformation. In fact, on this topic, the comments of these two towering figures were very similar in many respects to what was said by many of the other well known devotional writers of history. One of them,...

JOHN WESLEY AS A THEOLOGIAN OF GRACE 193 JOHN WESLEY AS A THEOLOGIAN OF GRACE Robert V. Rakestraw* In the Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin writes: We shall never be clearly persuaded, as we ought to be, that our salvation flows from the wellspring of God’s free mercy until we come to know his eternal election, which illumines God’s grace by this contrast: that he does not indiscriminately adopt all into the hope of salvation but gives to some what he denies to others.1 Calvin goes on to amplify this seminal statement by. Contrasting God’s free grace with...

<p>Polls show Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark doing well as he fights for Oklahoma's 40 delegates, but the state hasn't been entirely friendly territory him.</p> <p>Clark's three-car caravan was headed back from a campaign appearance in McAlester to Oklahoma City shortly after midnight Sunday when it was pulled over by a state trooper.</p>

After persuading Gen. Wesley Clark to enter the presidential sweepstakes last September and staffing his campaign with their closest advisors, Bill and Hillary Clinton are reportedly preparing to dump the former NATO Commander. "[The Clintons] are stepping away from [him] so fast, like rats from a ship," NBC's Chris Matthews said Sunday. "The Clintons deny any connection to the Clark campaign," he added, before predicting, "[Bill Clinton] will be the only man in history to fire Wesley Clark twice." The Clark campaign crashed and burned in New Hampshire with a disappointing fourth place finish after he refused to distance himself...

Democratic presidential candidates preach hate The Augusta Chronicle By: Herman Cain December 28, 2003 WHAT HAS HAPPENED to "united we stand?" Yes, as Americans, we can disagree and have the right to voice those disagreements, but destructive rhetoric about the war in Iraq for the purpose of self-promotion is demoralizing to our troops and the American people. Unfortunately, we can expect nothing more from the candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. Their words and their actions are unpatriotic. Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri actually said, "The president is a miserable failure (on foreign policy)." In...

Lockyer apologizes for `frat boy' description (booed for voting for Arnold) *** Calif. Democrats Pledge to Re-Elect Boxer (Bush officials compared to vegetables) *** State Demos fix sights on 2004 (Lyndon LaRouche Jr. stages sit-in) *** Posted on Sat, Jan. 17, 2004 Lockyer apologizes for `frat boy' description By Dion Nissenbaum Mercury News Standing before a large group of skeptical Democratic women, Attorney General Bill Lockyer apologized Friday night for describing allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger had sexually harassed several women before he became governor as ``frat boy behavior.'' ``Anyone that I offended I apologize to,'' Locker told more than 300...

Democrats are so delirious about finding a general who is a pacifist scaredy-cat that no one seems to have bothered to investigate whether Wesley Clark is sane. On "Meet the Press" back in November, Clark described intelligence as "a sort of gray goo as you look at it. You can't see through it, exactly, and if you try to touch it, it gets real sticky and you might actually interfere with the information that you're getting back. So you have to draw inferences from it." No, wait. I'm sorry. I think that was Clark talking about Monica Lewinsky's dress,...

<p>WASHINGTON — With the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses scheduled in a week and a half, Democratic candidates are facing crunch time, and accusations of dirty tricks are abounding as expected.</p> <p>The latest tracking polls show Wesley Clark (search) moving into second place in New Hampshire, which follows Iowa a week later with its first-in-the-nation primary. But in both states, Howard Dean (search) is still on top.</p>

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark (news - web sites) made a splashy but late entrance into the 2004 White House race, riding a gold-plated resume to the top tier of the Democratic pack before a series of early missteps sent him tumbling.   But Clark, a quick study as a Rhodes scholar and the top cadet in his class at West Point, has since found his voice on the campaign trail and says he is tailor-made for a race against President Bush (news - web sites) in which national security and foreign...

NATO said it won a great victory, but the war did very little damage to Serb forces. By not conceding this, the Pentagon may mislead future presidents about the limits of U.S. power. A NEWSWEEK exclusive. It was acclaimed as the most successful air campaign ever. "A turning point in the history of warfare," wrote the noted military historian John Keegan, proof positive that "a war can be won by airpower alone." At a press conference last June, after Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic agreed to pull his Army from Kosovo at the end of a 78-day aerial bombardment that had...

A SUMMARY OF THE GENERAL CLARK'S CAMPAIGN STOP IN THE 'TRIAL OF THE CENTURY' How can anyone believe that for eight years Clark, the general in command when NATO bombed Yugoslavia, had information on genocide and he didn't shout it until he's running for president? Retired American General Wesley Clark testified in front of The Hague Tribunal on Monday and Tuesday. From the outset it was apparent that his testimony would be stage-managed and restricted so as not to embarrass the "perfumed prince" or his government. It was indeed what happened. As soon as the proceedings started, President Milosevic objected...

Reporters desperate for a glimpse of Michael Jackson today accidentally trampled al-Qaeda terror boss Osama bin Laden, whose appearance at the singer’s Neverland ranch went virtually unnoticed. Mr. bin Laden reportedly made the torturous journey from the mountainous region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to Santa Barbara in the hopes of receiving a signed copy of Mr. Jackson’s new greatest hits CD, “Number Ones.” A recent posting on the official al-Qaeda website alluded to Mr. bin Laden’s wish to have a private meeting with Mr. Jackson in which the self-styled King of Pop could teach the terror chief his legendary “moonwalking”...

Recently discovered that Wesley Clark had a twin brother. His twin also suffered from delusions of grandeur.

Attention Freepers: In order to duly recognize the chief architect of General Ashley William Jefferson Clark's foreign, domestic and military policies, in the interest of journalistic integrity, I hereby call all posters to include the following message prominently in posts relating to him: Mary, help!!!!!!

The lraq-Money 3-Step You can dress up the Democratic Party in whatever uniform you want, it still doesn't have a strategy for the defining challenge of our time. A WEEK into his presidential bid, Wesley Clark looks less like the Democrats' solution than another symptom of their basic problem. That problem is that much of the Democratic base still doesn't take national security seriously. Sure, Democrats know that most Americans don't trust the party to keep them safe. But they deny that this distrust has anything to do with prevailing Democratic ideology. The party, they reassure themselves, merely needs...

WASHINGTON, September 22 (IslamOnline.net) - U.S. Presidential hopeful Wesley Clark, the former general who led NATO forces during the Kosovo campaign, revealed on Monday, September 22, that the Bush administration had set-up a five-year plan to invade seven Muslim countries after the 9/11 attacks, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and finally Sudan. In his book "The Clark Critique" excerpts of which were published by this week's Newsweek edition, the four-star retired general wrote that following the September attacks, the U.S. administration became preoccupied with the idea of "state sponsorship" and "draining the swamp" of terrorism. "In...

[Check the picture at this link] "Feelings Feelings like I wanna deck you Feelings like I gotta get you Out of my life" In a spontaneous moment during a Boston TV station's interview " Dean Brings Campaign To Kerry's Turf," Howard Dean apparently forgot cameras were rolling. "I have met with Wes Clark a number of times, that's how I know him. And I like him, and I think he's smart. He'll bring a lot to the Democratic field," said Dean. "I'm not going to say what we discussed."

Gen. Clark v Gen. Scott

The retired General who had been refusing to declare himself a Democrat or Republican is now declaring himself a Democratic presidential candidate. But more important than his party affiliation is Wesley Clark’s bizarre view on how to fight terrorism. The media refer to Clark’s impressive military credentials but they fail to note that his main accomplishment under President Clinton was presiding over the establishment of a base for radical Islamic terrorism, including Osama bin Laden, in Kosovo. Clark, who has been making headlines by claiming that the U.S. decision to go to war in Iraq was a misjudgment based on...

All around Washington last week -- and before and after on the phone -- I've been busy asking people about Wesley Clark. I talked with people who worked with him, some of them very closely, asking over and over again a variation of the same question: Is Wesley Clark too weird for prime time? Let me first tell you why I asked the question: It's because Clark in effect got fired from the Pentagon. Not to put too fine a point on it, then-Defense Secretary Bill Cohen, joined by many of Clark's colleagues, came to just plain dislike him. Some...

General Ashley Wilkes Enters The Race September 17, 2003 I cued the Dr. Strangelove music as I began Wednesday's program discussing the 10th dwarf in the Democratic presidential primaries. I quoted Richard Goldstein's Village Voice piece talking about Democrats "searching for the candidate with the right kind of masculine presentation." He writes, "If Bill Clinton was a bottom-feeding Rhett Butler, then Wesley Clark is Ashley Wilkes..." Folks, Ashley Wilkes was a wimp - and he was on the losing side of the Civil War! Women hate him because he depended on Scarlett O'Hara to do everything! Note also that liberal...

September 17th, 2003 Dateline: Little Rock, Arkansas Last night I decided that I would attend the Wesley Clark for President announcement. As a Conservative Republican of longtime standing I would venture into “Enemy” territory and see what the lay of the land was with Clark and his grass roots band of miscreants. It was a warm day of about 88 degrees and the turnout, excluding the media, was about 200 to 250 people. Everyone from the Arkansas Democratic Party hierarchy was there, including Former Senator David Pryor, Congressman Marion Berry, Clinton Library Foundation Head Skip Rutherford, Former Governor Jim Guy...

Democratic candidate Dean asks Wesley Clark to be running mate By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 12 September 2003 Howard Dean, presidential front-runner in the Democratic Party, has asked retired General Wesley Clark to join his campaign, should the former Nato commander decide not to join the race himself. The move will strengthen speculation that if Mr Dean wins the nomination, he will select General Clark as his running mate to challenge George Bush in 2004. Mr Dean's campaign officials confirmed the men had a private meeting in California at the weekend. Neither side would give details, but General Clark told...