The Sacraments: Communion Seasons, Fencing and the Liturgical Forms
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Baptism and the Lord's Supper in the Scottish and Dutch lines. The Scottish communion season, with its fast day, tokens and fencing of the table, is set beside the continental forms for baptism and the Supper with their warnings and call to self-examination.
These lists, taken from the school's verified research, are studied on your own at your own pace. The school's own classes, written as full teaching, open one at a time.
How to begin
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- Open the first class, lecture or reading and follow the order of the syllabus.
- Mark each lecture, reading and assignment complete when you finish it.
- Choose a weekly study goal to see when you will finish.
Syllabus
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Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.
- Communion season sermons (Thursday to Monday), Chesley, Ontario Rev. R. Macleod (April 2026) and Rev. K. Watkins (September 2025) 16 sermons listed; durations not shown Open source Supplementary Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
- Confession Chapter 27: Of the Sacraments Camden Bucey Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum (OPC) The lectures read or assume the 1788 OPC/PCA text; the 1647 text gives the magistrate power to call synods (31.2) and the original Belgic 36 charges the magistrate to remove idolatry. The new school holds the 1647 and original texts. Keep the lectures for chapters where the text is unchanged (21, 25 in substance,...
- Confession Chapter 29: Of the Lord's Supper Camden Bucey Open source Doctrinal Reformed Forum (OPC) The lectures read or assume the 1788 OPC/PCA text; the 1647 text gives the magistrate power to call synods (31.2) and the original Belgic 36 charges the magistrate to remove idolatry. The new school holds the 1647 and original texts. Keep the lectures for chapters where the text is unchanged (21, 25 in substance,...
- The Westminster Standards (14-part audio series), lecture 14: Of the Sacraments, Of Baptism, Of the Lord's Supper Sinclair B. Ferguson 14 MP3s; durations not shown Open source Doctrinal Free Church of Scotland (St Peter's, Dundee) / Reformed Theological Seminary The lectures read or assume the 1788 OPC/PCA text; the 1647 text gives the magistrate power to call synods (31.2) and the original Belgic 36 charges the magistrate to remove idolatry. The new school holds the 1647 and original texts. Keep the lectures for chapters where the text is unchanged (21, 25 in substance,...