An excerpt from Marc Carpenter’s piece on Pernicious Puritan Preparationism: “…Murray then makes an astounding statement: “As Paul reminds the Christians at Rome, they had not first known the Holy Spirit as ‘the Spirit of adoption’ but rather as ‘the Spirit of bondage’:” He goes on to quote from Hooker’s The Application of Redemption: “The [...]
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John Owen writes: “2. As it is unsearchable, so it is deceitful, as in the place above mentioned: “It is deceitful above all things,” — incomparably so. There is great deceit in the dealings of men in the world; great deceit in their counsels and contrivances in reference to their affairs, private and public; great [...]
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From Piper’s book, “The Future of Justification”: Piper: “For these eight reasons, and more that will emerge along the way, I am not optimistic that the biblical doctrine of justification will flourish where N. T. Wright’s portrayal holds sway” (John Piper, The Future of Justification, p. 24). Chris: If the Apostle Paul agreed with Piper, [...]
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The following are quotes from John Owen (1616-1683). In these quotes that I have provided, I will try to make some comments directly below most of them. Most of the quotes will be from Owen’s “Death of Death.” Owen repeats over and over again his doctrine of salvation conditioned on what God works in the [...]
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