Son of an Ulsterman, born and raised in Nova Scotia, now living in Western PA. Pastor of Nashua OPC 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Articles on Law and Gospel:
1. Law and Gospel: placefortruth.org/law-and-go…
2. Law and Gospel (and Hermeneutics) placefortruth.org/law-and-go…
3. Law, Gospel, and Gataker placefortruth.org/law-gospel…
4. The Law, the Gospel, and the Spirit placefortruth.org/the-law-th…
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John is absolutely right.
James Stalker (minister of the Free Church of Scotland [United Free Church]):
“Sacred as is the parent’s right to the obedience of the child, there is a term to it. It is the office of the parent to train the child to independence.
An adult woman who decides to move out and change churches and find a good man to marry is not rebelling against her parents. She is an adult. She is under no obligation to stay home and certainly under no obligation to marry a guy who likes the New Christendom conference.
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As the schoolmaster’s aim ought to be to train his pupils to a stage where they are able to face the work of life without any more help from him, so parents have to recognize that there is a point at which their commands must cease
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and their children be allowed to choose and act for themselves. Love will not cease; respect ought not to cease; but authority has to cease.” Imago Christi, pp. 45-46.
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“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.”
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Jun 10
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.”
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"Israel’s history in the Old Testament economy was a history of redemption, and not a history that replays/reiterates the pre-fall history of Adam."
- C. Venema
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Jun 2
Is David Garner arguing for something similar to what Westminster divine Edward Reynolds said below?
"Being thus united unto Christ...Fourthly, The sonship, and, by consequence, inheritance of Christ is ours. I speak not of his personal sonship by eternal generation,
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Drs. Letham and Tipton interact critically with Dr. Garner's position on the adoption of the Son. zurl.co/9Dv0Z
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but of that dignity and honour which he had as the first-born of every creature, and heir of all things. That sonship which he had, as he was born from the dead; 'Thou are my Son, this day have I begotten thee,' namely in the resurrection..."
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Jun 2
Is the key word "slavish"?
Because a non-slavish fear of hell and wrath is a fruit of faith.
placefortruth.org/sanctifica…
"A filial fear of God and of fatherly displeasure, is worthy of the believer, being a fruit of faith, and of the spirit of adoption; but a slavish fear of hell and wrath, from which he is delivered by Christ, is not a fruit of faith, but of unbelief." ~ Marrow Men
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May 28
Preserve Me, O God (Psalm 16:1-11) - from "The Book of Psalms for Worship" and from Trinity Psalter Hymnal (16B)
youtu.be/hwLUCjdrptM?si=zcJ7…
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May 25
An essay from 2009:
Samuel Rutherford’s Contribution to Covenant Theology in Scotland
confessional.org/journal/iss…
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May 22
R. Rollock:
"I grant that the works of regeneration are necessary unto eternal life promised in the Gospel, but not as merits...but as the means and way...they may also be said to be causes, after a sort: for they please God in Christ, and in some respects move him...
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May 22
as touching the faithful in the old Testament which embraced Christ the mediator of the covenant of grace...being justified in him which was to come, and regenerant by his grace, the promises of eternal life were made under condition of the works of regeneration"
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May 22
Does God promise eternal life to his people who persevere in good works/sincere obedience?
If you have been reared in NAPARC circles, then you will probably think that the answer is obvious: a hard no.
But deeper study in Scripture and the Reformed tradition challenges you to
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The Church of Scotland confused law and gospel. God doesn't promise eternal life for sincere obedience. Sincere obedience is only possible if u are born again, given faith, justified, adopted, and in union with Christ. Btw Marrow Men affirmed without holiness no one will see God.
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May 22
rethink your understanding of the relationship between sincere obedience and salvation.
placefortruth.org/the-reward…
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"the obligations of obedience in the Mosaic economy are essentially the same obligations that accompany the promises of grace in every administration of the covenant of grace."
- C. Venema
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If the Mosaic cov is the same in substance with the new cov, then what John Murray says (what some call monocovenantalism) must be true:
“the demand of obedience in the Mosaic covenant is principially identical with the same demand in the new covenant of the gospel economy.”
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May 14
Baptismal Regeneration and the Westminster Confession of Faith
confessional.org/journal/iss…
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Baptismal regeneration is explicitly taught in the WCF, this dude is bugging.
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May 14
Important to distinguish between the law/gospel distinction and the law-gospel hermeneutic.
See Mark Garcia's exchange with Michael Horton on Law and Gospel here:
Part 1: confessional.org/journal/iss…
Part 2: confessional.org/journal/iss…
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