From Reformation to Reformation

In all things they are obliged to Yield to the divine; not only in the Profession of the Glory of God, as often as He extracts it, Mark 1:24; Luke 8:28, or in Terminating their Wickedness, when He commands it, Mark 1:25-27; but also as well, after the likeness of Lictors, in Binding the Impious through hardening, and Tormenting them in various ways, 2 Timothy 2:25, 26; Matthew 8:30-32; 27:3-5, in comparison with John 17:12; and also in Afflicting the Pious themselves for the

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[A fundraising update: We are 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] THESIS IX: The matter about which, or the object that saving faith apprehends, is common or proper. THESIS X: The common object is divine truth revealed in the word of God: it is necessary fo

From what has already been said it immediately arises, that the State of the Evil Angels is Irreparable, on account of the eternal Punishment determined for them; since to them the Mediator has also been denied, Hebrews 2:16. If we ask the reason, why God took pity on many Fallen Men, but not on Fallen Angels? This is not to be sought, α. with the Thomists from a certain Inflexibility of Nature; see THOMAS AQUINAS, Summæ, part I, question LXIV, article II, page 120a. No c

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] 2. At the same time, the ultimate Consummation of the Diabolical Punishment is coming on the last Day; it is altogether grievous, α. Intensively, which is represented to us b

[A fundraising update: We are 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] THESIS VII: The Matter is in which and about which. THESIS VIII: The Matter in which, or the receiving subject, is man elected to eternal life, whose intellect and will is affected by faith. EXP

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Our AUTHOR, discoursing concerning the Punishment of the Evil Angels, distinguishes that into, 1. Punishment Begun, which they already bear, and, 2. Punishment Consummated, which they will

Verse 5:[1] And against (or, upon, or, joining to[2]) the wall of the house he built (Ezek. 41:6) chambers (Heb. floors[3]) round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple (1 Kings 6:16, 19-21, 31) and of the oracle: and he made chambers (Heb. ribs[4]) round about… [And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about] The passage is obscure, and it is hardly able to be understood without the description of Ezekiel’s Temple (Castalio). ו

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[A fundraising update: We are 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] THESIS I: Hitherto concerning the offer of the Mediator, which is the former part of application. Reception follows, which is the latter part of application, and is the act of man, whereby he re

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Concerning the Species of the first Angelic Sin the Sacred Scripture teaches no more determinately, than concerning the Time of the commission of this Sin. That they, or a part of them, did

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] 42. But, that those consequences are matters of knowledge, and so Theological, not of faith, and so not obliging to faith, the Methodist Papists persist in maintaining. But yet that is even

The time of this Fall is uncertain. However, that some delay came between the Creation of Angels, which is the work of God, and the defection, which is the act of the Demons, is asserted not without reason; lest, if their very first operation be thought to be vicious, the cause of the sin should appear to be fastened to their Creator God, as the proximate efficient: TURRETIN observes this with others, Theologiæ Elencticæ, locus IX, question V, § 2, against certain Scholasti

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] Thesis I: The reception of the Mediator. Thesis II: Things to be considered in the reception. Thesis III: The Instrument. Thesis IV: Faith is defined. Explanation: 1. Faith, saving and

Whatever the case may be, this Sin, whereby the Evil Angels defected from God, is treated, as our AUTHOR observes, in 2 Peter 2:4, with which passage he wants Jude 6 to be compared; for the comparison of the passages shows with sufficient clarity, that one and the same thing is treated. Now, here in 2 Peter the Angels in a general way are said to have sinned; in Jude they are mentioned in a particular way to be μὴ τηρήσαντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἀρχήν, ἀλλὰ ἀπολιπόντες τὸ ἴδιον οἰκητή

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] 40. That pertains to the discretive use of reason, whereby from those expressed by consequence is inferred, what is contained virtually in the things expressed. To the διακριτικὸν/discrimin

Verse 13:[1] And king Solomon raised a levy (Heb. tribute of men[2]) out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. [And King Solomon chose laborers,‎וַיַּ֙עַל הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה מַ֖ס ] Verbatim: And he caused to ascend a tribute (Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator). He levied (or exacted [Syriac], imposed [Mariana, Junius]) a tribute (Pagnine), that is, personal, or consisting of persons, as it is perceived from what follows (Piscator). He levied (or, raised [Pisc

[A fundraising update: We are about 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] The fount of Evil is their Fall, Voluntary and Impudent, whereby these Angels defected from God, because they wanted to defect: now, they were able to defect, because they were created muta

[A fundraising update: We are 30% of the way to our fundraising goal 25 new $100/month subscribers! Thanks be to God. If you are being blessed by the translation work, please consider supporting the work and speeding it on its way. Click here to watch a brief video on the project.] THESIS XXIV: Hitherto the cause of the Lord’s Supper. The effect follows, which is the confirmation of our faith concerning our spiritual union with Christ, and participation of the benefits acq