Iron Ink

DKQ – Watson, Willard & Winthrop

Q.) “What do we call natural affections?”

A.) “Such as be among them of one blood and kindred as between parents and children husbands and wives, kindred, country, heathens, yea Christians also void these.”

Q.) (How) “does it differ from human and Christian affections?

A.) “Human affection is that whereby we embrace all men as men; natural affection is that whereby we embrace them which are nearer to us by blood; Christian affection is that whereby we love good men because they belong to Christ.”

Thomas Wilson

Puritan

A Commentary on the Most Divine Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans – p. 54

“There are diverse degrees of Neighborhood. The word ‘neighbor’ is very (comprehensive); it comprehends in it all with whom we may have any civil (Communion) and so the greatest and strangest, and (all) of men. And it involves all the several (nations) and religions. So, in this respect, some may be our nearer neighbors than others. A brother is nearer than a stranger, etc. Hence, there are necessary degrees of the Law. That we are to love all equally alike is asserted, and from (variance) of the relations with God hath (created) among men unto which are to be discharged by a special love one to another. Hence Psalm 16:3, ‘But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.’ There are some who we ought to be more concerned for than others.”

Samuel Willard
Puritan
Body of Divinity – pgs. 584-585

“We are not bound to exercise mercy to others to the ruin of ourselves.”

John Winthrop

Life and Letters of John Winthrop – p. 183

Clearly the above quotes teach that we don’t treat all men the same though we do treat all men with charity and treating them with charity does not mean disadvantaging our own people.

Anybody who teaches you that we must treat all men as neighbors who doesn’t also teach that the Ordo Amors, by definition, means that there are different degrees of neighborliness is a false teacher. We are not required to welcome the stranger and the alien and that rejection would be neighborliness if it is in pursuit of not ruining our neighbors (Kith and Kin).

DKQ – Richard Sibbes

“God ‘knows our souls in adversity,’ Ps. 31:7; so, should we know the souls of others, IF they be knit to us in any bond of KINDRED, or NATURE, or neighborhood or the like. That bond should provoke us; for bonds are the veins and arteries to derive comfort. All bonds are to derive good, whether bonds of neighborhood, or acquaintance, &c. A man should think with himself, I have this bond to do my neighbor good. It is God’s providence that I should be acquainted with him and do that to that him that I cannot do to a stranger. Let us consider all bonds and let this work upon us: let us consider their grievance is a bond to tie us.”

Richard Sibbes
Complete Works – Vol. III, p. 69

1.) Kindred bonds are the veins and arteries to derive comfort. Hence kin stand uniquely close to us and those not kin are not our veins and arteries wherein we derive comfort. Clearly, Sibbes is communicating that kindred bonds are ordinarily to be prioritized over non-kindred bonds.

2.) Note the category of neighbor and stranger. Sibbes concurs with the idea of the Ordo Amoris and teaches that we have more responsibility to our neighbor (the closer the neighbor the greater the responsibility) than we do to a stranger. This does not mean we hate the stranger. It merely means that God has ordained concentric circles of greater to lesser responsibility for men. The closer someone is to me in vital relationship and/or a shared doctrinally confessed faith the more I am obligated to look out for them. The further someone is to me in vital relationship and/or a shared doctrinally confessed faith the less obligated I am to look out for them. So, for example, I have a greater obligation to look out for the Reformed Christian over and above the Roman Catholic or the Arminian. So, for example, I have a greater obligation to look out for my children than I do for my cousins but a greater obligation for my cousins than for the stranger I bump into at the smoke shop.

“We see in the current of Scripture ordinarily that when God converted any one man, He converted his whole family. ‘Salvation this day come to thy house’ saith Christ to Zaccheus, Luke 19:9. When salvation came into his heart, it came to his house; all was the better for it. So the jailer, when he believed he and his whole house were baptized, Acts 16:33. When God blesseth the governor once, then it is supposed all the house comes under the covenant of grace. Abraham and his house were blessed Gen. 22:17.”

Richard Sibbes

Complete Works – Vol II, p. 354

1.) OT or NT, God deals with people in their familial covenantal structures. To leave the children outside of the covenant of grace, by not giving them the sign of the covenant is to particularize and atomize man, seeing him only as a sovereign individual. It is the error of the Enlightenment liberal worldview.

2.) Covenantal unity establishes Kinism. If the head of the house is drawn by irresistible grace than all in the household family covenant (Kin) are placed within the circle of the covenant of grace. This establishes again the idea that God Himself is a Kinist. People are not saved by blood relation but salvation tends to run in familial lines.

Everybody Knows

With apologies to Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows the clergy are lacking

Everybody still attends the local Kirk

Everybody knows the culture’s cracking

Everybody knows the “collared shirts” are jerks

Everybody knows who bears the guilt

The lost stay lost, in this worldview tilt

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

Everybody knows that we’re being lied to

Everybody knows that it’s all a show

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like they’ve been taken to a bordello

Everybody praying to God sincere

Everybody asking for no Nuclear

That it doesn’t come to blows

Everybody knows

Everybody knows we’re fiscally solvent

Everybody knows we pay our bills

Everybody knows that our credit’s good

That’s why the checks’ now in the mail

Everybody knows this as we speak

If you can just wait a couple of weeks

We are just a little slow

As everybody knows

Everybody knows

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

And everybody knows the border’s closed

Everybody knows that we’re safe now

Everybody knows we’re no longer exposed

We’ve let in all we’re going to allow

Everybody knows the white man’s dying

There’s no need to keep on lying

We see we are hosed

Everybody knows

Everybody knows that our elites are perverts

Everybody knows they like little tykes

Everybody knows that the ruling class and family

Are composed of sodomites and dykes

Everybody knows DEI is their bread

And they won’t be happy till we’re dead

Then it’ll be disclosed

What everybody knows

And everybody knows there’s an end to darkness

Everybody knows what we must do

We must return to a place called Golgotha

And finally, be done with Talmudic Jews

Everybody knows Reformation’s the answer

To this vile cultural cancer

Otherwise, it’ll blow

As everybody knows

Everybody knows

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

That’s how it goes

Oh, everybody knows

Everybody knows

That’s how it goes

Everybody knows

DKQ – Lancelot Andrews

How to order our loves among varying “neighbors.”

“In the ordering of our Love … we are to respect the conjunction by nature or grace in the duties of Love which we freely preform… We owe not so much to those persons with whom we have no Conjunction. Thus, we should prefer a faithful man before an infidel, because in the one there is only the image of God by nature, in the other it is both by creation and by regeneration … And among the faithful, we should rather do good to those of our own country, than to Strangers, because besides the bond of Religion, there is also a second bond of proximity and among them to our acquaintances before those who are unknown to us, because we have an easier entrance unto them and do them good by persuasion, etc. And among such, to our kindred and alliance before others… because we are joined and bound together as soon as we are born, and this bond cannot be dissolved as long as we live.”

Lancelot Andrews
1555 – 25 September 1626
English bishop & scholar, holding high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.

The Pattern of Cathechistical Doctrine at Large – pgs. 320-321

Recently there was a kerfuffle on the issue of whether or not we are required to teach every man (including illegal immigrants) as our neighbors. The idea that was being championed by a few clergy was that as Christians we owe the same amount of charity to all people equally. Andrews makes it clear here that idea is just not true. Andrews (like so many throughout Church history) understood that there is a need to prioritize our love (Ordo Amoris). This means, by necessity, that we rank some people lower than other people when it comes to the responsibility, we have towards them and that translates into the truth that we treat some people with a less degree of neighborliness than we treat other people. This, in turn means, that we don’t treat all people the same and were we to embrace the egalitarianism that is required to try and treat all people the same that would mean that we would be disobeying God and His Word. It would be sin to treat an illegal immigrant the same way I treat my children or my kinsmen or my countrymen given what Andrews says above.

Now this is no argument to treat people who are further removed from our immediate concentric circles of obligation badly. It is merely to argue, as Andrews does and as all Christians did before they were bitten by the neo-Marxist egalitarian bug, that there are limits on each person’s time, wealth, and affection and because that is so not everyone is treated with the same degree of neighborliness.

Lizard People … Then & Now

I have written here before about “Lizard People.” It is just my shorthand way of referencing people who are not like most humans. They are people who seemingly have no soul, experience no guilt, shame, or remorse, and who view other people the way they might view insects or slugs. Certainly, the Lizard People are driven by narcissism but there is more than just narcissism here. They are also psychopaths and the very worse of them are this way because of their religious beliefs.

In my reading I came across one of the Lizard People from the 18th century. Meet the Duc d’Or leans. Phillippe d’Or leans was one of the wealthiest men in France and was the cousin of King Louis XVI. d’Or leans was one of the guiding actors behind the dethronement and beheading of his cousin and his cousin’s wife, the Queen.

d’Or leans also had a sister-in-law whom he hated named the Princesse d’ Lambelle, who was one of Queen Marie Antoinette’s ladies. d’Or leans hated d’Lambelle because she had rebuked him for his role in the “March of Versailles” — an earlier attempt to murder the crown family. Rumors also swirled that d’Or leans would financially gain the d’Lambelle’s dowry if she would die.

d’Or leans thus paid assassins in the mob to murder d’Lambelle and then gave it the color of law by having her condemned to death for not taking an oath to hate the recently seized King and Queen.

However, we are still not in Lizard People territory yet. Where d’Or leans is seen as a Lizard came in an incident following the murder and decapitation of d’Lambelle. Upon the deed being done and after the mob had taken the decapitated and piked head of d’Lambelle to a salon to get her hair right again the mob marched the piked head before the veranda of the Duc d’Or leans.

Here we allow Nesta Webster to describe the Lizard Person quality of Phillippe d’Or leans.

“The Duc d’Or leans was just sitting down to dinner with his mistress, Madame Buffon, and several Englishmen, when the savage howls of triumph that heralded this arrival (of the piked head of d’Lambelle) attracted his attention. Walking to the window he looked out calmly on scene, contemplated with a perfectly unmoved countenance the dead, white face, the fair curls fluttering round the pike-head. The Duke of Orléans reportedly commented ‘Oh, it is Lamballe’s head: I know it by the long hair. Let us sit down to supper’,”

This is Lizard People status. No conscience. No remorse. No guilt. No shame.

It is just these same kind of elites that we are dealing with today. Like the Duc d’Or leans they have no souls. They perpetuate the basest of cruelties upon others and without blinking they sit down to enjoy their meals. You must realize that these are the kinds of people we are dealing with when we deal with the Corporatists, the Politicians at high levels, the Silicon Valley Billionaires, and the K-Street and Wall Street movers and shakers. You can not expect these people to be like you. They are not. They are Lizard People. They don’t have your manners, your morals, or your reservations. They are not like you. That is who we are dealing with as those behind the on the street Revolutionaries.

Do you really think people like Occasio-Cortez, Bill and Melinda Gates, Peter Thiel, Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg, Ben Sasse, Larry Ellison, etc. are any different than the duc d’Or leans? These people have always existed, and our challenge is to realize that there exists a whole class of soul-less people at war with “legacy Americans,” and in realizing that give them no quarter when the time comes.