From Reformation to Reformation

[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

[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.] Although they were made Good Mutably: which the Event abundantly showed in their Fall, since we have already evinced that they were not created Evil. Not very long after their Creation they

[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.] 39. The principal and organic use of reason in Theology is distinguished. It is not to be despised, therefore, that illuminated Reason has a role in Theology. And indeed, the principal use

[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 XVIII: Hitherto the matter of, or from which, the Lord’s Supper. The matter concerning which follows: the receiving subject, which is any Christian, furnished with these three requisites

As every created thing is Metaphysically true, so also in the same sense it is Good; and so, to the extent that those Evil Angels possess real Being, to such an extent they possess Goodness. But it is asked here concerning their Moral Wickedness, whereby they are out of conformity with God and the rule of His most holy Law: Whence did that derive its origin? Our AUTHOR warns that care is to be taken, lest we look for that Wickedness from the very Creation of these Angels:

Verse 1: [1] And ( 1 Kings 5:10, 18; 2 Chron. 2:3, Huram [2] ) Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: ( 2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Chron. 14:1; Amos 1:9 ) for Hiram was ever a lover of David. [ Hiram sent his servants, etc .] That is, Legates, who congratulated him, and offered him all their own, as Kings are wont to do (Vatablus). But why did Hiram so long delay his legation? Response: Perhaps

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[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.] 36. Yet faith does not remove, but perfects, the sobriety of the mind, and truth naturally known . But faith constrains reason, and takes all reason captive to the obedience of Christ; [1]

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[A fundraising update: We are 25% 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 XV: Hitherto the sign in the Lord’s Supper . The thing signified follows, which corresponds to the substantial or ceremonial sign. THESIS XVI: To the substantial sign, more specifically

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[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.] 33. Reason, neither corrupted nor healed, is able to be the principium of revelation . Moreover, the reason of man is understood as either natural, or illuminated by the light of faith. T

[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.] 29. For discerning divine Revelation, the authority of human testimony avails nothing . So the authority and infallibility of whatever human testimony avails nothing for discerning Divine

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[A fundraising update: We are 25% 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.] 24. Revelation obtains its Divinity, not from the manner of its delivery, but from the thing delivered . At the same time, Revelation in whatever Period obtains the innate character of its Divin

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[A fundraising update: We are a little more than 25% of the way to our fundraising goal of 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 Order of those Angels is undoubtedly the Best : whether that rests upon the diversity of the duties imposed upon them, or upon the mere choice of God. This Order is p