Tag: Economy of the Covenants

Do Christians Need to Recall Their Moment of Salvation?

Many who were raised in a Christian home cannot remember a time when they did not love Jesus. Others were not raised Christian, but had a comparatively radical conversion experience. Must Christians pinpoint the exact moment of their salvation? Are you really born again if you don’t recall the precise moment it occurred? In the following excerpt, Herman Witsius explores how the fruit of regeneration can develop differently from person to person as they grow in grace. While actively and personally embracing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is urgently necessary even for covenant children, is it the case that they will always remember when that decision was initially made? Whether slow or spontaneous, early or late, the fruits of grace and a consistent pattern of walking in newness of life—not the timestamp—are the true evidence of being born again.… Read More Do Christians Need to Recall Their Moment of Salvation?

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Paedo-Communion is Unscriptural | Herman Witsius

All the words of our Lord’s command (with respect to this sacrament) are so expressed that they cannot belong to infants, who can neither receive the bread nor eat it, unless it be chewed for them or soaked. For “babes are fed with milk, and not with meat” (1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12). Infants cannot examine themselves nor discern the Lord’s body, nor show his death, all which we have just heard the apostle requires of communicants. “Let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup; for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.”… Read More Paedo-Communion is Unscriptural | Herman Witsius

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