The Regulative Principle of Worship, Part 3

http://jeffreyjmeyers.blogspot.com/2008/04/regulative-principle-of-worship-part-3.html

"...the rise of Deism in England and Germany as the precursor to higher criticism. In the process of his research he shows how English Protestants, particularly the Puritans, displayed a deep-seated hostility to anything that smacked of material ceremony and ritual, and that they read the Old Testament with these colored lenses such that they tended to interpret Old Testament religion as a kind of Catholicism before Rome."

"The bottom line is that we need to be whole-Bible Christians when we reflect on how the Bible regulates congregational worship."