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Category: Merit

  • The Real Turretin on: Covenant of Works – Reward for Obedience

    Joshua Lim at Reformed Blogging has provided an interesting quotation from the real Turretin on the Reward of Life that would have been given to Adam for his obedience for as long as he continued in obedience (link). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • Cur Deus Homo? Further Response to Horne

    Gene Bridges provided the following comments (link) which I have reproduced in part below: As you noted, stating that the Covenant of Grace is in some way “conditional” or “conditioned” on faith does not lead to it being (a) meritorious or (b) pactum merit. Indeed that’s a non sequitur. Turretin (the real one) went over…

  • 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…

  • Thoughts / Distinctions on Merit and Adam

    Is the Covenant of Works a covenant based on merit? We affirm. By the covenant of works, we mean that covenant provided to Adam, which takes the form, “do this and live.” Thus, when we speak of the covenant of works, we are not distinguishing between the New Testament and the Old Testament, but between…

  • 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…

  • Witsius Explains the Righteousness of Christ

    Herman WitsiusThe Economy of the Covenants Between God and ManBook II, Chapter V XI. But we must proceed a step further, and affirm, moreover to that the obedience of Christ was accomplished by him, be believed, that it was in our room, in order thereby to obtain for us a right to eternal life. The…