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by M. Van Beek (Author)
The Heidelberg Catechism is a book of comfort for God's true children, which is hated by the enemy and loved by the godly, and that will always remain so.
Also, in this catechism is expounded in a precious way, how the Lord converts a person and that there is nothing included from man's side, for there is only one God, with whom we must be reconciled; there is only one Mediator, by which we can be reconciled to God and in Whom the triune God is eternally glorified, of Whom the poet says:
Through Him, through Him alone, Whose presence goes before us,
We'll wear the victors crown, no more by foes assaulted,
We'll triumph through our King, by Israel's God exalted.
The late Rev. M. van Beek was born in Bennekom NL on October 1, 1921, and called by the Lord to the public ministry of the Word, to proclaim that among us. He was 41 years old when he entered into the ministry and died May 9, 1983 at the age of 61.
He was endowed with wisdom and authority as a shepherd and teacher. Rev. van Beek was also respected in secular circles.
May the remembrance of the just be blessed!
