From Reformation to Reformation

Providence, because it is conversant with things already existing, does not exclude Means, of which God makes use, out of the Abundance of His goodness. It is obviously a Difference between Creation, which gives to Creatures their being, and presupposes the nothingness of the same, and between Providence, which is conversant with things already existing; because the former does not admit Means, but the latter does not at all exclude Means in subordination to itself in all it

1. Divine Revelation up until Moses was propagated by tradition alone, without Scripture. Divine Revelation, already begun after the Fall in Paradise, and contained in the Promise of the Seed, who would crush the Head of the Serpent, that is, Christ, who would strip the Devil of the power with which the violated Law had armed him against he sinner, was successively handed down by oral tradition or narration all the way to Moses. For, that up to that point the whole, or any

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1. Divine Revelation up until Moses was propagated by tradition alone, without Scripture. 2. The manner of the preservation of the tradition until Moses. 3. The commencement of Scripture. 4. The necessity of consigning the same to writing is asserted. 5. And it is defended against the blasphemies of the Papists. 6. A definition of Scripture. 7. The perversity of those doubting concerning the Divinity of Scripture without the testimony of the Church. 8. That Div

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[A fundraising break-through: We have surged to about 40% of our goal! Thanks be to the Most High God! We still have some ground to cover. 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: Hitherto the efficient of justification: Its matter is wont to be called that, through and because of which before the divine tribunal we are freed from the curs

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[A fundraising break-through: We have surged to about 40% of our goal! Thanks be to the Most High God! We still have some ground to cover. 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.] 70. All Theology is practical. Finally, we have said that Theology is especially directed toward the glory of God and the salvation of the sinner. Whence it follows from the

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Hope to have the first Locus, "Theology in General" (Heidegger's Prolegomena) in print before the end of the month! An important decision has been reached! Each of the 28 Loci of Johann Heinrich Heidegger's Corpus of Christian Theology are going to be published separately as they are completed! The hope is that the publication of each Locus in a small, manageable paperback will encourage the reading of the whole (rather than just sampling and referencing). The first Locus, "

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Verse 23:[1] And he made (2 Kings 25:13; 2 Chron. 4:2; Jer. 52:17) a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other (Heb. from his brim to his brim[2]): it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. [A sea molten[3] (thus Jonathan, Munster)] Or cast (Syriac, Pagnine, Tigurinus, Montanus); a lake/basin cast (Junius and Tremellius, Castalio). Sea is everywhere used in the place of lake/basin in the Go

[A fundraising break-through: We have surged to about 40% of our goal! Thanks be to the Most High God! We still have some ground to cover. 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 the cause of the reception of Christ or the Mediator. The effects follow, which are principally three: (1.) Justification, (2.) Sanctification, (3.)

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