The first hindrance of piety is an ignorant mistaking of the true meaning of certain places of the holy Scriptures, and some other chief grounds of Christian religion. The grounds of religion mistaken are these: Justification by faith alone; Predestination; Free will; Original sin; Free offer of the gospel, etc.… Read More Eight Commonly Misunderstood Bible Doctrines
The first hindrance of piety is an ignorant mistaking of the true meaning of certain places of the holy Scriptures, and some other chief grounds of Christian religion. The Scriptures mistaken are these: Ezekiel 33:14, 16; Matthew 11:28; 3. Romans 8:1; 1 Timothy 1:15; Proverbs 24:16; Isaiah 64:6; James 3:2; Luke 23:43; 1 John 1:7; & Romans 5:20.… Read More Ten Commonly Misunderstood Bible Verses
William Perkins,Commentary on Hebrews 11:40,Works III, pp. 394-397 “God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.” (Hebrews 11:40). “For us”—that is, for the church in the New Testament, where note that God’s church and the state thereof in the New Testament is better than it was… Read More Five Ways the New Covenant Surpasses The Old
The time of repentance is the time present, without any delay at all, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if ye will hear his voice” (Heb. 3:7), and, “Exhort one another daily, while it is called today: lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Heb. 3:13).… Read More Six Reasons To Not Delay Repentance
I was entered into covenant with God by baptism, and was then brought under strong engagements to be the Lord’s. But O! I have broken my covenant and backslidden from Christ. If I were under the law or a covenant of works, I would be utterly undone. But, blessed be God, I am under the tenders of a covenant of grace that admits of repentance and a surety for the guilty criminal, and graciously promises pardon to the penitent believer—nay, it promises repentance to the hard-hearted and faith to the unbelieving, and pressingly invites backsliding children to return to God through a Mediator.… Read More A Meditation To Prepare For The Lord’s Supper
There is a fourfold loosing and raging of the devil mentioned in the Word, and there is a fourfold victory of the Church over him in opposition to these, also spoken of: 1) Satan’s Personal Dominion & Casting Out of Heaven. 2) Satan’s National Dominion & Casting Down. 3) Satan’s Antichristian Dominion & Millennial Binding. 4) Satan’s Little Season & Casting into Hell for Eternity.… Read More Fourfold Loosing & Binding of Satan
Satan is to be cast out of the world, and in due time bound in chains, to the judgment of the great day [Rev. 20:2-3]. He is not, even at present, lord de jure of one foot of earth; but his usurpation lingers, and is permitted to continue on many accounts (into which it is not our present business to inquire). He is to be ejected, in point of fact as well as right, to exercise no more power or authority either over single men or communities of men, by means of any of those systems on which he has expended, for centuries, the utmost refinement of his subtlety. These shall melt away like the mists of the morning. But even now the church has, on the ground of Christ’s atonement, to go in and take possession of the world from which its prince has been legally cast out, and from which he will ere long, in point of fact, be fully ejected (Luke 10:18).… Read More Satan’s Dominion Overthrown De Jure & De Facto
Carl Friedrich Keil (1807-1888)Commentary on Genesis 6:1-8,Pentateuch, fn. 1, pp. 84-85. 2 Peter 2:4 & Jude 1:6 Do Not Reference Angel Marriages. Nor do 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6 furnish any evidence of angel marriages. Peter is merely speaking of sinning angels in general (ἀγγέλων ἁμαρτησάντων) whom God did not spare, and not of… Read More Peter & Jude vs Pseudo-Enoch on Angels
Carl Friedrich Keil (1807-1888)Commentary on Genesis 6:1-8,Pentateuch, pp. 80-88. The genealogies in Genesis 4 and 5, which trace the development of the human race through two fundamentally different lines, headed by Cain and Seth, are accompanied by a description of their moral development, and the statement that through marriages between the “sons of God ”… Read More Genesis 6: Fallen Angels Or Sons of Seth?
William PerkinsThe Damned Art of WitchcraftWorks IX, pp. 389-399. Question. Whether a man may prevent the danger of witchcraft, and if he may, then what remedies may he lawfully and effectually use against it? Answer. To this question we answer affirmatively that a man may. And for the manifestation of this point, the remedies of… Read More Lawful & Unlawful Remedies Against Witchcraft
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