George Whitefield – Free Will and Obedience
The doctrines of our election, and free justification in Christ Jesus are daily more and more pressed upon my heart. They fill my soul with a holy fire and afford me great confidence in God my...
View ArticleMartyn Lloyd-Jones – The God Who Seeks Us
There are some people who seem to think that the message of the Bible is one which tells us what we have to do in order to please this God whom we have offended. That again is quite wrong. The Bible...
View ArticleJ.C. Ryle – God’s Elect Are Safe
Those whom God has chosen to salvation by Christ, are those whom God specially loves in this world. They are the jewels among mankind. He cares more for them than for kings on their thrones, if kings...
View ArticleGeerhardus Vos – Election and God’s Affectionate Foreknowledge
Hosea, on the supposition that marriage and berith with Jehovah are to him identical, is the chief source of our information in regard to the nature of the union. We learn from him: [1] The union...
View ArticleHerman Bavinck – Questions That Distinguish Reformed Theology
To distinguish is to learn. In the discussion of the doctrine of immediate regeneration it is of highest importance to take this seriously to heart. To neglect this entangles one in various...
View ArticleJohn Calvin – When The Fewness of Believers Disturbs You
If God has willed this treasure of understanding to be hidden from his children, it is no wonder or absurdity that the multitude of men are so ignorant and stupid! Among the “multitude” I include even...
View ArticleHerman Bavinck – The Comfort In Election
1854-1921. Dutch Reformed Theologian and Churchman. Professor at Free University in Amsterdam. Both for unbelievers and believers, the doctrine of election is a source of inexpressibly great comfort....
View ArticleJohn Calvin – Conviction of Scripture’s Superiority
1. Scripture is superior to all human wisdom Unless this certainty, higher and stronger than any human judgment, be present, it will be vain to fortify the authority of Scripture by arguments, to...
View ArticleJohn Calvin – The Medicine Doesn’t Feed The Disease
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? – Romans 6:1-2 Paul proceeds carefully to disprove the propounded...
View ArticleAbraham Kuyper – Particular, Covenant, and Common Grace
1837-1920. Dutch pastor, theologian, politician, and Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Particular grace deals with the individual, the person to be saved, with the individual entering glory. And with...
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