Q. 77. Wherein do justification and sanctification differ? A. Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ; in sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace, and enableth to the exercise thereof; in the former, sin is pardoned; in the other, it is subdued; the one… Read More The Difference Between Justification and Sanctification
Herman Witsius Economy of the Covenants Vol. 1, pp. 345-351. VII. But this [effectual] calling is given, partly externally, by a persuasive power, called moral suasion; partly internally, by a real supernatural efficacy, which changes the heart. The external call is, in some measure, published by the word of nature, but more fully by that… Read More Natural Theology | Herman Witsius
Thomas Boston Works, vol. 2, pp. 460-465. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:13). I come now to handle the questions in the Catechism concerning the… Read More How the Sacraments are Effectual Means of Salvation
John Brown of Haddington Systematic Theology, pp. 309-315. Christ’s Mediatorial Dominion Distinguished from his Natural Supremacy. Besides that natural supremacy and dominion over all things equally with his Father and the Holy Ghost, Christ hath also a mediatorial dominion, or kingdom, which, I. Was given him by his Father as the reward of his offering… Read More Christ’s Mediatorial Dominion and Two Kingdoms
John Owen Of the Penman of the Epistle to the Hebrews. Outline § 1. Knowledge of the penman of any part of Scripture not necessary. Some of them utterly concealed. The Word of God gives authority unto them that deliver it, not the contrary. Prophets in things wherein they are not actually inspired, subject to… Read More Proof that the Apostle Paul Wrote Hebrews
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 7. Of the last Subject of Inhesion, or Seat of Original Sin, the Body of a Man. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord… Read More Pollution of the Body by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 6, Sections 1-20. “And God saw that every imagination of the thoughts of mans heart was only evil, and that continually.” (Genesis 6:5). SECT. I. This Text explained and vindicated against D. J. Taylor, Grotius, the Papists and Socinians. We have at large discovered the universal… Read More The Sinfulness of the Imagination
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 5, Sections 9-19. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:2). SECT. IX. The Pollution of the Affections in respect of the Conflict between the natural Conscience and Them. Again, the great and notorious pollution of the affections doth appear… Read More Pollution of the Affections by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 5, Sections 1-8. “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:2). This Text opened. The exceeding great pollution of the will by Original Sin being largely discovered, both in the acts of it, as also in its state. We now… Read More The Nature and Corruption of the Affections
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 5. Of the Natural Servitude and Bondage of the Will, with a brief Discussion of the Point of Free will. ¶. 1. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Hitherto we have been discovering the vast and extensive pollution… Read More The Bondage of the Will
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