The question is not whether women may teach publicly in the church, for all orthodox Christians agree that Scripture prohibits women from holding office in the Church and from doing duties reserved for church officers (1 Cor. 14:34-35; 1 Tim. 2:11-15). Rather, the question is if women may otherwise exercise public authority over men. Secondly,… Read More May Women Teach? Public vs. Private Instruction
WCF 3.1 God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass (Rom 9:15, 18; 11:33; Eph 1:11; Heb 6:17); yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin (James 1:13, 17; 1 John 1:5), nor is violence offered to… Read More God is Not the Author of Sin
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
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 4. SECT. IV. The Defilement of the Will in its Affections and Properties, or the sinful Adjuncts inseparably cleaving unto it. “So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy” (Romans 9:16). Hitherto… Read More Pollution of the Will by Original Sin
Anthony Burgess Treatise on Original Sin Part 3, Chapter 4, Section 3. SECT. III. ¶. 1. The Corruption of the Will in all its several Operations. These doctrinal introductions thus abstracted, let us proceed to open this noisome sepulcher, this dead and defiled will, which hath been spiritually dead, not as Lazarus four days, but… Read More The Corruption of the Will in All its Operations
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