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Calvin’s Doctrine of Predestination PDF Print E-mail
Adore with astonishment the secret counsel of God, through which, those which seemed good to Him are elected, and the other rejected![1]

That was our believer / theologian’s approach to predestination. He prostrated his mind and heart before the God of the Word; and because he heard God speaking so clearly of His eternal predestination, Calvin believed it, taught it, and preached it! Calvin practiced Sola Scriptura!

That reforming principle demanded predestination; and it delivered us from bondage to Rome’s semi-Pelagianism! Predestination, you see, is both the fountain of grace and the death knell to human merit; predestination is what gives us the other great solas of the Reformation: grace alone, in Christ alone, through faith alone, to God’s glory alone. GRACE ALONE! That is the triumphant cry of the Reformation. Calvin took us to its source – the eternal predestination of God. He drove his peg into that mighty truth and anchored us in the free grace of God.

Calvin’s doctrine of predestination stands at the very heart of the Confessions of the Reformed and Presbyterian churches.[2] The doctrines of grace, or five points of Calvinism,[3] have rightly become the common-places for biblical Christianity.

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The Law in the Christian's Life PDF Print E-mail

Christians are dead to the law as a covenant of works. Being united alone to Christ who is the end of the law for righteousness, we are justified by faith alone. We are dead to the law, that is, we utterly reject it as a way of being either justified or condemned.

I would like to address the necessary distinction between the law as it is a covenant of works, and the law as it is the rule for the obedience of believers. It is my belief that confusion over this distinction leads into the antinomianism that plagues the churches today.

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How To View Our Covenant Children PDF Print E-mail

How should we view and treat the children the Lord has given to us? What view should we have of the spiritual state of our children? This is a question, the answer to which has the most far-reaching consequences. It greatly influences the training and treatment of our children. It affects our understanding of God and His dealings with us. It is a most important matter for the faith and life of Christians, especially Christian parents, and of the health and growth of the church generally.

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Some of the Biblical Proofs For The Threeness of God PDF Print E-mail

Some of the Biblical Proofs For The Threeness of God -  the Trinity of Persons are:

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The Biblical Offer Of The Gospel PDF Print E-mail

Analysis and answer to Rev. K. W. Stebbin' Christ Freely Offered in Light of Scripture and the Confessions.
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