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Category: Hodge

  • Response to Objections Regarding Merit and the Covenant of Works

    In Paul’s epistles to the Romans and Galatians, Paul drives home a message of the futility of works to provide merit, and the need for grace. This message is an important aspect of the gospel, for those who seek salvation through works will perish: Romans 9:31-3331But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath…

  • Edwards and the Other Hodge on Merit and the Covenant of Works

    Here are two more folks’ thoughts on merit and covenant of works: If this principle be correct, if the law demands entire conformity to the nature and will of God, it follows: 1. That there can be no perfection in this life. Every form of perfectionism which has ever prevailed in the Church is founded…

  • 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…

  • Read Systematic Theologies

    I noticed recently that Peter Beck at “Living to God” has encouraged folks to read Systematic Theologies (link). While I’d rather invert his list (placing items 4 and 5 at the top, followed by 3, and then by 1 and 2, it is valuable to read systematic theologies, particularly those that have withstood the test…

  • The Real Turretin on: The Church of Rome (in his day)

    To the same effect Turrettin denies that the modern Church of Rome can, without qualification, be called a true Church of Christ; but to explain his position he says: “The Church of Rome may be viewed under a two-fold aspect, as Christian in reference to the profession of Christianity, and of the evangelical truths which…

  • The Real Turretin on: Validity of Baptisms by Heretics

    Turrettin, vol. iii. p. 442. “Some heretics,” he says, “corrupt the very substance of baptism, as the ancient Arians, modern Socinians, rejecting the doctrine of the Trinity others, retaining the essentials of the ordinance and the true doctrine of the Trinity, err as to other doctrines, as formerly the Novatians and Donatists, and now the…

  • The Real Turretin on: The Relation of Church and State

    According to the Reformed Church of Geneva, Germany, France, Holland, and Scotland, the relation of the state and Church is taught in the following propositions as given and sustained by Turrettin. Lec. 28, Ques. 34. 1. Various rights belong to the Christian magistrate in reference to the Church. This authority is confined within certain limits,…

  • The Real Turretin on: Imputation

    Turrettin (Theol. Elench. Quaest. IX., p. 678) says, “Imputation is either of something foreign to us, or of something properly our own. Sometimes that is imputed to us which is personally ours; in which sense God imputes to sinners their transgressions. Some times that is imputed which is without us, and not performed by ourselves;…

  • Misleading Information from "Calvin and Calvinism"

    I was disappointed to see more misleading information appear over at “Calvin and Calvinism,” this time on Hodge. Hodge was a firm believer in 5 point Calvinism. This web page (link – not recommended in any way, shape, or form) tries to present a slightly different view. The problem seems to be that the person…

  • The Deleterious Effect of Particularist/Universalist Propoganda

    I stumbled across this shocking quotation: “Amazingly, Dabney, Charles Hodge, and William Shedd all distance themselves from theologians like Francis Turretin on the relationship between the decree of God and the cross of Christ, and even go so far as to explicitly reject key exegesis that underlies the “limited atonement” argument found in John Owen’s…