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Concerning the Criteria, by which Necessary Articles are distinguished from the non-necessary, our AUTHOR here discourses Negatively and...

Worst of all, the same Papists wish to free themselves from all Proof, and to devolve upon us alone the Burden of Proof, as much in...

In sections 10 and 11, our AUTHOR assesses the new Method devised by the Papists in the last century of disputing with Protestants, the...

Concerning Fundamental Articles of the Faith, FREDERIC SPANHEIM the Younger most learnedly and solidly, as always, has spoken openly and...

The rule concerning not admitting anything before Clear and Distinct Perception, and concerning every true thing, which has been thus...

In order to acquire this Knowledge, according to our AUTHOR, sometimes Universal Doubt concerning all Religion and its principium is...

Against the Socinians and Remonstrants, our AUTHOR advises us to hold that Religion is not summed up in two Acts, in the Observance of...

The Acts of Religion are, 1. Elicited, or Commanded. That is, there is a recognized distinction of the Acts into Elicited and Commanded....

Our AUTHOR gives here an elegant Definition of Religion, which Paul supplied in Titus 1:1, 2, when he describes the Faith of the Elect as...

If you have regard to the Homonymy of the term, Religion, α. is often used of sort of painstaking observance and fear; thus that...

With respect to the Synonymy of the word Religion, The Hebrews, says our AUTHOR, have a more general terms, for example, the Knowledge of...

The Theology sought from the Scriptures teaches RELIGION; of which word a diverse Etymology is handed down. For it is believed that it...

In this Chapter on RELIGION occurs, I. A Nominal Treatment , in which is considered the word’s A. Etymology, § 1; B. Synonymy, § 2; C. Homonymy, § 3. II. A Real Treatment ; which A. Begins with the Definition, § 4: B. Sets forth an Explication of the Same Definition by parts. Here is to be observed א. Religion’s Formal Cause, which you might rightly call the Acts of Religion; concerning which α. There is a general discussion , as the Acts of Religion are

A TREATMENT OF REVEALED CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY HERE FOLLOWS: I. A Nominal treatment , Chapter I, § 1-6, II. A Real treatment , in which you may see True Theology’s A. Diverse distribution , Chapter I, § 7-26, B. Definition as Revealed Theology, Chapter I, § 27, which Definition is explained, א. With respect to Genus , as it is called Doctrine , Chapter I, § 28-31. ב. With respect to the Difference of species , sought α. from its Principium , which is the Word

Greetings. When in the latter part of Psalm 22 the Messiah joyfully gives a presentiment of the saving and super-abounding fruit, that, by His Sponsorial Merits and vicarious Passion, the people, given to Him by the Father to be redeemed to Himself, were going to carry off, which people were to be satisfied with the delights of the house of the Lord unto eternal life; [1] the Messiah signifies that in the enjoyment of these spiritual benefits, to be communicated to a world

Leiden University Bernardinus de Moor was born on January 29, 1709. He studied at the great Dutch University of Leiden, which had been a center of Reformed scholarship from the time of its founding in 1575. Its faculty had included some prominent Reformed theologians, such as Franciscus Junius (1592-1602), [1] Franciscus Gomarus (1594-1611), [2] Antonius Walæus (1619-1639), [3] Johannes Hoornbeeck (1653-1666), [4] and Herman Witsius (1698-1708), [5] among others. De Moor