From Reformation to Reformation

[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

[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:

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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