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Steve and Turretin vs. Bryan Cross
I enjoyed a recent article by Steve Hays of Triablogue taking Bryan Cross to task on the issue of the perspicuity of Scripture, and relying on Turretin’s excellent summary of that issue. (link) -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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The Real Turretin on: The Duty of the King Toward Religion
JetBrane at Iron Ink has provide a quotation from the real Francis Turretin on the subject of the duty of the Christian magistrate. (link) JetBrane goes on to make an application to the so-called R2KT (Radical Two-Kingdom Theology) viewpoint. Without getting embroiled (for now) with that topic, I can of course commend Turretin’s comments as…
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The Real Turretin on: Perseverance and the Law
Josh Lim at Reformed Blogging, has posted a nice selection from the real Francis Turretin on the relationship between Perseverance of the Saints and the Law. (link) As you can imagine, Turretin insists that certainty of salvation does not give us license to sin freely. -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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The Real Turretin and Pictet on: Christ’s Righteousness
Turretin writes: Such is the perfection of the atonement, that it corresponds to the justice of God revealed in the Word, to the demands of the law, and to the miseries and necessities of those for whom it was made. Had it been in its own nature deficient, and derived its sufficiency only from God’s…
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Defending Turretin from the Federal Vision
GreenBaggins has provided a defense of Turretin to misuse by Federal Visionist Mark Horne (link to Greenbaggins). This fits nicely with two previous posts I provided on this blog, one relating to McMahon’s defense of Turretin from FV abuse and another talking about Turretin’s view of the covenant in the garden (which connects to the…
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The Indispensible Nature of the Justice of God
“This avenging justice belongs to God as a judge, and he can no more dispense with it than he can cease to be a judge, or deny himself; though at the same time he exercises it freely. It does not consist in the exercise of a gratuitous power, like mercy, by which (whether it be…
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The Real Turretin on: Perspicuity
Brandon at Siris has posted a summary of Turretin on the Perspicuity of Scripture (link) as well as directing us to Turretin’s own words (link). This is very important reading for people who imagine that the Reformed position is that all of Scripture is easily understood: that is far from correct. -TurretinFan To God be…
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A Brief Biography of the Real Francis Turretin
The following biography was originally published in The Evangelical Guardian and Review, Vol. II, April 1819, No. 12: Sketch of the Life of the celebrated Francis Turrettine, Professor of Divinity at Geneva, who died Anno 1687. Translated from B. Pictet’s Latin Oration, delivered before the Academy of Geneva, when he ascended the Theological Chair, in…
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Was Adam Offered Heavenly Life?
More specifically, the question is whether he was offered heavenly life before the fall. Pastor Wes White provides an illuminating discussion (link). Interestingly, this meshes well with another recent post of mine (Turretin cf. Goodwin). Naturally, Pastor White makes good use of Turretin in his explanation. -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Turretin Defended Against the Federal Visionists
I recently located Dr. Matthew McMahon’s article entitled, Evangelical Postmodern Diversification, in which he defends against the Federal Visionists’ historical revision. I particularly appreciated his defense of my favorite theologian, Francis Turretin, against the ludicrous charge of Pelagianism. (link) To God be the Glory!