From Reformation to Reformation

The method of identifying Divine Revelation we have already anticipated in Locus I, § 26. Let us apply the same to Scripture. First, therefore, conscience and all reason dictate, that man is a creature of God, made for His glory: that man, as a creature and servant of God, to be governed, not by his own will, but by the will of his Lord and Creator, was not able to be left in the world without the revelation and word of God: that, therefore, it has come about by man’s own

[A fundraising update: We have almost reached 50% of the fundraising goal! Thanks be to 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.] The Act of Providence is threefold. With the simplicity of this Action on the part of God being no barrier, that almighty Command of the divine Will, according to the diversity of Obje

[A fundraising update: We have almost reached 50% of the fundraising goal! Thanks be to 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: Sanctification is defined. Explanation: 1. Sanctification, regeneration, conversion, repentance, and internal vocation are distinguished, according to the opinion of certai

[A fundraising update: We have almost reached 50% of the fundraising goal! Thanks be to 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.] It is accomplished on the part of God by the Command of His Will; so that the Acts of Providence considered on God’s part are nothing other than one altogether simple and immutable Comm

[A fundraising update: We have almost reached 50% of the fundraising goal! Thanks be to 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 XI: Its adjuncts are: (1.) its perfection: (2.) its certainty in us: (3.) its immutability: (4.) its equality in all: (5.) the study of new obedience. EXPLANATION: I.

[A fundraising update: We have almost reached 50% of the fundraising goal! Thanks be to 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.] 6. A definition of Scripture. Holy Scripture, therefore, is the Word of God, set down in writing by its author, the Holy Spirit, in the Old Testament through Moses and the Prophets, b

Providence is indeed chiefly attributed to the Father Economically. This follows manifestly enough from those things that were similarly observed concerning Creation, Chapter VIII, § 9. Indeed, Providence, as we heard in § 1, is a Corollary of Creation, Creation continued, as it were. If, therefore, Creation is economically applicable to the Father, the same is with good reason supposed concerning Providence. Hence specifically, chiefly and κατ᾽ ἐξοχὴν, pre-eminently, in

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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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