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Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Adoption

Robert Murray M'CheyneI desire, my friends, to open up to you shortly the subject of adoption. By nature you are children of Satan; I would here show you how you may be made sons of God: "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God" First, what is the fountain of... Read More
Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Electing Love

Robert Murray M'CheyneTHIS IS A VERY HUMBLING, and at the same time, a very blessed word to the true disciple. It was very humbling to the disciples to be told that they had not chosen Christ. Your wants were so many, your hearts were so hard, that ye have not chosen me. And yet it was exceedingly comforting to the disci... Read More
Thomas Brooks

No one can snatch them out of My hand

Thomas Brooks"My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." Isaiah 46:10 "The plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations." Psalm 33:11 "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21 God's eternal purpose ne... Read More
Charles Alexander

Prophecy Spiritually Understood - Pt 3 "Romans Eleven And The Two Isreals"

The understanding of verse 26 of Romans 11 does not depend upon the verse 25 going before, but upon its own internal connection with the entire range of prophecy, and is to be considered not as an addendum to the 11th chapter of Romans but as the summation of three chapters of close reasoning, which... Read More
Charles Alexander

The Puritan Illusion - Part One

Great efforts are being made to convince the Christian world of a most marvelous illusion that the past history of the Christian Church is a comparative failure and that the real triumph of the Kingdom of Christ awaits a day yet future when it is expected the Jewish people as a nation, will be conve... Read More
Daily Light

OCTOBER 2 - evening

Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? By the grace of God I am what I am. — Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth. — It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. — Where is boasting then? It is e... Read More
David J. Engelsma

Evangelism and the Reformed Faith

Introduction Strange to say, some suppose that the relationship between the Reformed Faith and evangelism is uneasy and uncomfortable. Stranger still, some charge that the Reformed Faith and evangelism are incompatible. Many outside of the Reformed Churches contend that the Reformed Faith makes evan... Read More
Early Christian Dictionary

Free-will and predestination

Early Christian DictionaryI. Free will of men and Angels II. The elect III. Predestination and foreknowledge of God IV. Synergism I. Free will of men and Angels (Top) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I wot not. Philippians 1:21... Read More
Historic Confessions

1644 London Confession

London Baptist Confession of 1644 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE. This confession was drawn up by the Particular Baptists to distinguish them from the, more numerous, General (Arminian) Baptists. There are two, or more, editions of this confessi... Read More
James Arminius

THE CERTAINTY OF SACRED THEOLOGY

ORATION III THE CERTAINTY OF SACRED THEOLOGY Although the observations which I have already offered in explanation of the Object, the Author and the End of sacred Theology, and other remarks which might have been made, if they had fallen into the hands of a competent interpreter, although all of the... Read More

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