Posted in Reformed Theology, WCF, WSC on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
My posts of the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Shorter Catechism will be discontinued for a little while. My trial version of MS Office expired today and that’s what I was using to format those posts. I need to get some funds together so I can activate the full MS Office version on my [...]
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 39. What is the duty which God requireth of man?
A. The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to his revealed will.
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 38. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection?
A. At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgment, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity.
Posted in Grace Gem, Puritans, Quotes on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
“And we know that all things work together for good
to those who love God, to those who are the called
according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28Afflictions work for good to the godly, as they are
destructive to sin. Sin is the ‘mother’, affliction is
the ‘daughter’; the daughter helps to destroy
the mother.Sin is like the tree which breeds [...]
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Q. 37. What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death?
A. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection.
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 36. What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification?
A. The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption and sanctification, are, assurance of God’s love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the [...]
Posted in Reformed Theology, WCF on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
OF GOD’S COVENANT WITH MAN
1. The distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him as their blessedness and reward, but by some voluntary condescension on God’s part, which he hath been pleased to [...]
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 35. What is sanctification?
A. Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 34. What is adoption?
A. Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of, the sons of God.
Posted in Reformed Theology, WSC on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Q. 33. What is justification?
A. Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.
