For, all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them” [Deuteronomy 27:26]. Now, it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
For the Lord’s Day (33)
Posted in Book of Galatians, For the Lord's Day on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Woman’s Funeral Described
Posted in Dorothy Wordsworth on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
September 3rd [1800], Wednesday. …I then went to a funeral at John Dawson’s. About 10 men and 4 women. Bread, cheese, and ale. They talked sensibly and cheerfully about common things. The dead person, 56 years of age, buried by the parish. The coffin was neatly lettered and painted black, and covered with a decent cloth. [...]
“World” in Biblical Translation
Posted in C. S. Lewis, Word Usages on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The developments I have mentioned so far were all, in my opinion, purely native; we must, now, turn our attention to meanings which World acquired as a result of its use in translations of the Bible. It acquired them all during the period when our translators were still working from the Vulgate Latin, and they [...]
Faith and Repentance
Posted in Charles Haddon Spurgeon on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Faith and repentance are born together and aid the health of each other.
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), on July 23, 1865
His Autobiography
Posted in John Bunyan on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In this, my relation of the merciful working of God upon my soul, it will not be amiss if, in the first place, I do, in a few words, give you a hint of my pedigree and manner of bringing up that, thereby, the goodness and bounty of God towards me may be the more [...]
Divine Rhetoric
Posted in Michael S. Horton on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Reformers, and their successors, broke from medieval system by regarding theology as, chiefly, practical rather than theoretical – which is to say, by directing all metaphysical reflection to the formal principle of Scripture and the material principle of justification in Christ, rather than vice versa. Theology, then, was not regarded, by these theologians, as [...]
The Person of James
Posted in Book of James, David P. Scaer on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The author of the first pastoral epistle is James, the half-brother of the Lord. This view, not without some wide scholarly support, opens to us the world in which Jesus lived. New Testament research attempts to isolate the earliest layers of tradition later incorporated in the gospels. The search for the earliest connections with the [...]
For the Lord’s Day (32)
Posted in Book of Micah, For the Lord's Day on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in steadfast love. He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the [...]
Law and Grace
Posted in Grace, John Murray, Law of God on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No subject is more intimately bound up with the nature of the gospel than that of law and grace. In the degree to which error is entertained at this point, in the same degree is our conception of the gospel perverted. An erroneous conception of the function of law can be of such a character [...]
False Assurance
Posted in Assurance of Salvation, Maurice Roberts on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing is as tragic as a false hope of Heaven. Yet, multitudes, in all ages, have lived and died in a false profession of faith in Christ. They have claimed to be in union and fellowship with the Son of God, yet, all their lives, have been deluded. So serious is the subject that it [...]
