Sermon by the renowned 17th century Genevan pastor/theologian Francis Turretin on the text of Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
This beautiful sermon recounts in great flowing language the blessedness of God's people in communion with the Almighty himself. It is the first installment in a series of sermons by Turretin.
Second Sermon of the series by the renowned 17th century Genevan pastor/theologian, Francis Turretin.
Turretin was a successor to John Calvin's ministry in Geneva. He has grown popular in recent years due to the republishing of his magisterial sytematic theology: The Institutes of Elenctic Theology, though he is not known as a preacher by the English speaking world. This sermon series makes Turretin's preaching available in English for the first time. In these sermons, Turretin shows remarkable sensitivity to his church audience and a keen demonstration of the dictinction between the genres of preaching and systematic theology. In these sermons, Turretin hotly implores, exhorts, ravishes, and excites Christians to greater love to God and obedience to him.
Francis Turretin was a Swiss-Italian Protestant theologian. Turretin is especially known as a zealous opponent of the theology of the Academy of Saumur (embodied by Moise Amyraut and called Amyraldianism), as an earnest defender of the Calvinistic orthodoxy represented by the Synod of Dort, and as one of the authors of the Helvetic Consensus, which defended the formulation of double predestination from the Synod of Dort and the verbal inspiration of the Bible.
Turretin greatly influenced the Puritans, but until recently, he was a mostly forgotten Protestant scholastic from the annals of church history, though the rough English translation of his Institutes of Elenctic Theology is increasingly read by students of theology. John Gerstner called Turretin "the most precise theologian in the Calvinistic tradition."
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