The Belgic Lightning Bolt

Great events in the history of the church are bolts of lightning from heaven.  But they do not strike out of a clear, blue sky on a sunny day.  They flash from storm clouds and are forecast by a darkening day.  Such was the case with the writing, and adoption as a Reformed creed, of the Belgic Confession of Faith.  It was a lightning bolt of truth from heaven, accompanied by a peal of the thunder of judgment that shook the false church to its foundation and resounded throughout the entire,...