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Bullinger on Immortality of Soul; Purgatory Refuted
The soul, being separated from the body, does not cease to be what it was; but the body being dead, the soul abides alive in its own essence, altogether immortal, and void of all corruption. For the death of man is not the extinguishing or …
5 Proofs of the Covenant of Redemption
This excerpt contains David Dickson's proofs for the existence of the Covenant of Redemption. It discusses biblical proofs showing Christ's role as mediator and redeemer, highlighting His sacrifice as payment for the elect's sins. It asserts that this covenant was established before the world's foundation …
How is this Law Said to be Written in their Hearts? (Burgess)
There is a law of Nature inscribed in the hearts of men. If this law is not abolished and believers are bound to follow its direction and obligation, how can the Antinomian argue that the Moral Law, in terms of its commanding power, ceases to …
Ephesians 6: Parents and Children (John Brown)
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children …
Ephesians 5: Husband and Wife (John Brown)
Great should be our concern to have our heart filled with the Holy Ghost, and to live always under his comforting influences—in everything giving thanks to Christ, and to God through him. Earnestly should we labor to fulfil the duties of every station, from a …
Husband and Wife: Wife (Eadie)
The husband stands to the wife in the same relation as Christ stands to the church, and the meaning then is, not as if she were doing a religious duty, but “in like manner as to the Lord”—the duties of the church to Him being …
Her Ways are Ways of Pleasantness
What say we of her [Wisdom's] ways? Is she a sullen matron, who entertains her followers only on sighs and tears; so that to obtain the joys of the next life, we must bid eternal adieu to the contents of this life; ‘we must never …
Concerning Images And Pictures [Icons] In Christian Churches (Ursinus)
Should we make or have images of of God, Christ, and saints in our homes and churches? Why or why not? No; for we must not pretend to be wiser than God, who will have his people taught not by dumb images, but by the …
Against the “Apostolic” Authority of the Roman Pope and See
For on all occasions he [the Pope] vaunts about the Apostolic See, Apostolic Benedictions, Apostolic Anathemas; in short, boasts of every thing Apostolic. Wherefore from what has been explained above concerning the nature of an Apostle, this question arises. Whether the Pope of Rome has, …
The Excellencies of the Knowledge of the Covenant of Grace
That I may waken up in myself and others an eagerness of desire, and even a hungering and thirsting after the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:8), who is the marrow and sum of the Gospel Covenant, whom God hath given for …
