Tag: Samuel Rutherford

How To Classify The Fundamentals Of The Faith

We are to distinguish between articles of faith (or res fidei, matters of faith, and fundamental points of faith). Matters of faith I reduce to three:

1. Fundamental points.
2. Supra-fundamentalia, superstructions built upon fundamentals.
3. Circa-fundamentalia, things about matters of faith.

For praeter-fundamentalia, things indifferent and beside the foundation in matters of religion and moral carriage, I acknowledge none. Fundamentals are the vital and noble parts or the soul of Divinity.… Read More How To Classify The Fundamentals Of The Faith

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11 Arguments for the Covenant of Redemption | Samuel Rutherford

Whether there be any such thing as a Covenant of Suretyship or Redemption between JEHOVAH and the Son of GOD? That there is such a Covenant, is proven by 11 Arguments. No doubt, Christ God-Man is in Covenant with God, being a person designed from eternity, with his own consent, and in time yielding thereunto, and yet he stands not in that Covenant-relation that… Read More 11 Arguments for the Covenant of Redemption | Samuel Rutherford

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