King James Version - Vol. 2 Textual Commentary (Matt. 15-20)

This is a Dedication service at Mangrove Mountain Union Church in New South Wales Australia of Volume 2 of Gavin's neo-Byzantine Textual Commentary on Matthew 15-20 (since 2013 at http://www.gavinmcgrathbooks.com). This upholds the New Testament Received Text and King James Bible on Gunpowder Treason Day, Thursday, 5 November 2009. In the first part of this sermon, Gavin discusses the Divine Preservation of Scripture for the New Testament Received Text, found in a closed class of three sources that had general accessibility over time and through time, namely, the Byzantine Greek, the Latin, and ancient and mediaeval Greek and Latin church writers. God calls teachers for the Received Text as he does other teachers (Ephesians 4:11). The representative Byzantine Text is followed unless there is a clear and obvious textual problem with it, in which instance a minority Byzantine reading and/or Latin reading and/or reading in ancient or mediaeval writers, especially early mediaeval writers, may be adopted if it remedies the defect. The master maxim, The Greek improves the Latin, is used with the servant maxim, The Latin improves the Greek. In the second part of the sermon, Gavin discusses Papists' Conspiracy Day, also known as Gunpowder Treason Day or Bonfire Day, and makes special reference to his attendance at the Bonfire Day celebrations one year earlier on Wednesday 5 November 2008 at Lewes in England. The sermon ends with a Dedicatory prayer of his Volume 2 on Matthew 15 to 20 and prayers for Papists' Conspiracy Day from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer of 1662.