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It is now asked, whether the Spirit thus proceeds through the mode of Spiration from the Father alone, or from the Father and the Son...

But the Epithet of Holy, which is everywhere added to the Noun Spirit, inasmuch as He is called, not only τὸ Πνεῦμα ἅγιον, the Holy...

This Going Forth of the Spirit is conceptualized after the manner of the going forth of breath from the mouth, and hence it is wont to be...

At the same time, if you compare the Commentarium of the Most Illustrious LAMPE on John 15:26, with his apology against the Reverend...

Finally, Ἐκπόρευσις/Procession is attributed to the Holy Spirit, John 15:26.[1] When to the Holy Spirit is attributed Going Forth,...

Certainly the Scripture itself teaches that the Son is Equal to the Father, John 5:18, 23; Philippians 2:6: but hence it is certain that...

3. In what do the Evangelists agree and differ? A reason for the difference is rendered out of Chrysostom. All the Evangelists have it in...

Of course, in Chapter IV, § 20, we saw that by Independence God is of Himself negatively, not in the sense of being His own Cause; and...

It is to be observed in addition, that this Generation of the Son does not prevent Him, with the Spirit, from being called...

You might indeed say that the first origin of the Error of Röellius was at this point, that he attributed too much to the natural Reason...

And, so that the Theologians of Leiden might gain credit for the things just now said, they subjoin a collation between the principal...

[And the care of the Dutch Synods against him ought to be highly commended and diligently observed.]See Judicium Ecclesiasticum contra...

δ. In this way the Mystery of the Trinity necessarily goes forth either unto Tritheism, that is, if the distinction of the Persons is...

2. Description of the person of John: Boanerges, ἐπισήθιος, one leaning on the breast, the Theologian, Pillar of the Church. His History...

4. A Theologian in the Netherlands, recently Philosophizing, proceeds our AUTHOR, is not able and ought not to be passed over here...

Take Up and Read! Shortly after my conversion to Christ, I became a regular listener to the radio broadcast of Dr. R.C. Sproul.  Through Dr. Sproul I was exposed to Reformed theology for the first time, and, from the first, I was captivated.  I was quite interested, of course, when he mentioned that he thought that Jonathan Edwards’ Freedom of the Will was the most important, most theologically formative, book that he had ever read.  I ordered it immediately and waited anxio

These Fundamental Articles ought not to be excessively multiplied, as is done by the Papists according to their own will , to whom whatever the Roman Church defines to be Fundamental is Fundamental, the contradiction of which is to them an Error in Necessary Articles : see the Walenburch Brothers , in Examination III Principalibus , page 144. Now, among the necessary heads Rome has for some time now held the supremacy of the Roman Pope, Purgatory, Iconolatry, the real Pres

The Scholastic Papists had already furnished an occasion for disputation concerning determining the Number of Fundamental Articles , not infrequently asking in their Commentaries upon the Master of Sentences, [1] How many Articles of Faith are there? Then, the Socinians furnished an occasion, when they restrict the necessary and Fundamental doctrine concerning God to Six obvious heads. Especially the more recent Papists, the Methodists , among whom the Walenburch Brothers

These Articles are able to be reduced to certain Heads, which it is immediately evident are to be reckoned among the Fundamentals by an application of the Criteria just now given. 1. To the Principium of believing, or the Scripture to be reckoned as θεοπνεύστῳ/ inspired . Although our AUTHOR with respect to the individual parts of Scripture, of which sort formerly certain were doubtful, as appeared in Chapter II, § 13, if be absent heretical depravity in the rejection of n

Concerning the Criteria , by which Necessary Articles are distinguished from the non-necessary, our AUTHOR here discourses Negatively and Positively. . Negatively, Articles are not to be esteemed Necessary, α. From the Universal Consent of all those professing the name Christian : nevertheless, this is maintained by Smalcius [1] in his contra Smiglecium , [2] Hobbes [3] in his book de Cive , Jean Le Clerc [4] in his dissertation de eligenda inter Christianos dissentiente