Canons of Dordt
Simply for historical interest and reference (this is an important historical document, NOT for what constitutes true Biblical Christianity, but for an informative example of the diversity of the...
View ArticleThe French Confession of Faith
More historical info:The French Confession of FaithPrefatory letter to the KingSire, we thank God that hitherto having had no access to your Majesty to make known the rigor of the persecutions that we...
View ArticleWas Calvin a Calvinist? (By Richard A. Muller)
Was Calvin a Calvinist? By Richard A. Muller:https://agrammatos.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/was-calvin-a-calvinist-12-26-09.pdf
View ArticleNot "atonement," but "satisfaction"
Historical info from a Reformed scholar:“There has been some scholarly disagreement on this issue -- and sometimes a doctrinal wedge is driven between ‘Calvin’ and the ‘Calvinists,’ as if Calvin taught...
View ArticleThe Major English Puritans
Some historical information:THE MAJOR ENGLISH PURITANS (by Curt Daniel) 1. Thomas Adams (1612-1653). Anglican. Writer of very popular devotional theology, including a massive commentary on 2 Peter....
View Article"Attainment of heavenly life and everlasting felicity." (Calvin)
"I feel pleased with the well-known saying which has been borrowed from the writings of Augustine, that man's natural gifts were corrupted by sin, and his supernatural gifts withdrawn; meaning by...
View ArticleShedd on covenant of works
“The object of this probation was that Adam, by resisting Satan’s temptation and persevering in holiness, might secure by his own work indefectibility or immutable perfection. This was to be an...
View ArticleAccurately Defining "Puritan" (and was Jonathan Edwards one?)
Mark Jones wrote this post some years back (not promoting Jones as a true Christian; this post is primarily to convey accurate theological-historical information). This is an excerpt (underlining...
View ArticleJ.I. Packer on "Covenant theology" featuring Witsius
Not a promotion or an endorsement of Packer, Witsius, or any others mentioned in this article (this is posted for historical reference or interest; culled somewhere off the internet).Introduction: On...
View ArticleNeglected Sources of the Reformation Doctrine of Predestination
Theological-Historical information from the internet:Neglected Sources of the Reformation Doctrine of Predestination Ulrich Zwingli and Peter Martyr Vermigli (by FRANK A. JAMES III)Although its...
View ArticleSome information on Peter Martyr Vermilgi
Historical-Theology from the internet:The decision of Peter Martyr to identify openly with the Reformed cause was remarkable. He was already 43 and most who courageously joined the Reformed church did...
View ArticleWycliffe's Distinctive Political Theory
"[John Wycliffe] also developed a distinctive political theory according to which godly civil magistrates had the right to expropriate the material resources of a corrupt church and put them to better...
View ArticleUnity and Diversity among wicked Reformed
"The Reformed brotherhood of churches of course also included in its ranks the German Reformed, many of them Melanchthonian Lutherans more than Calvinists in their origins and emphases, not to mention...
View ArticleZwingli's Famed Murderous Third Baptism
"Zwingli’s famed response to the radicals, which was to give the re-baptizers a third baptism—death by drowning. Second, however, is the fact that Bucer, still in some ways a Dominican, genuinely...
View ArticleBucer's Broadly Irenic Style
Excerpts from Beyond Calvin: Essays on the Diversity of the Reformed Tradition (underlining mine):"Bucer is one of the central figures in the oft-rehearsed debate amongst Protestants about the true...
View ArticleResurrection of the Head and inextricable relation to its Mystical Members
"For it is necessary that the satisfaction of one be as it were the satisfaction of all, and that the Spirit, who fits for a holy and happy life, should flow from him, as the head, to us, as his...
View ArticleWilliam Perkins on "an holy dissention."
"God commanded Isaiah to declare unto Hezekiah his death; and he did also denounce destruction unto the Ninevites within forty days: and yet he had decreed to put neither of them both in execution. The...
View ArticlePerkins' version of Hypothetical Universalism
"The exhibiting of the Mediatour is that, whereby the Son of God being borne man in the fulness of time, doth pay the price of redemption to God for the sins of men. The virtue and efficacy of this...
View ArticleThomas Scott on his Dort translation philosophy
Some info on translating the Dort documents from the original latin into English:"In translating this history, and the other documents which I now lay before the public, I make no pretensions to any...
View ArticleHopkins' Haughty Hypothetical
The following is from Ezekiel Hopkins on the possibility of God saving another way than through the blood of Christ."Had it been possible for men to have quitted scores with Divine justice by what they...
View ArticleInvincible Ignorance of Infants
“being regenerated, not by corruptible seed, but incorruptible, through the living Word of God, and remaining forever. Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all [the] glory of men as [the] flower of...
View ArticleInfluence of John Knox
This is not a promotion of John Knox as a true Christian. This post is simply an addition to the archive of the "history of theology" (though I may make comments or applications on this history). James...
View ArticleCharles Simeon (1759-1836)
In 1989 at the “Bethlehem Conference for Pastors,” John Piper presented a biography entitled, “Brothers, We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering: Meditations on the Life of Charles Simeon.” Charles Simeon...
View ArticleCharnock on faith as a condition
"The covenant of grace doth NOT run, 'I will be your God, IF you will be my people; 'BUT 'I will be their God, and they SHALL be my people;''I will betroth thee to me forever; I will betroth thee to me...
View ArticleAxe of Magnanimity
"This fall permitted commeth not to pass but God willing it, neither doth it come to pass contrariwise or otherwise than God permitteth, neither can it any further be then he doth permit. Yet the will...
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