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Category: Quotation

  • The Real Turretin on: The Will of God in Salvation

    Ismael Hilerio has provided a some reading from the real Turretin on the Will of God in Salvation. (link) This title may whet your theological appetite: “God acts seriously in the calling of reprobates, although he does not intend their salvation“ -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • What Zanchius and I believe about the Atonement

    In Confession of the Christian Religion, Chapter XI, Zanchius writes: For we acknowledge one only Redeemer, Jesus Christ, without whom, as there is no true God, so no true salvation. And one only sacrifice, the oblation or offering whereof being once made, not only all the sins of the elect were once washed away in…

  • The Real Turretin on: Ecclesiology

    Here’s a brief excerpt from Turretin’s Institutes, on the lack of difference between Presbyter and Bishop (link). To God be the Glory!

  • The Real Turretin on: the Covenants

    The Reformed Reader has graciously transcribed a two part series taken from the real Turretin’s Institutes: (part 1)(part 2) See also the recent transcription of the difference between Grace and Works by Transforming Grace. (link) -Turretinfan To God be the Glory!

  • The Real Turretin on: Baptism

    I found the following excerpt from Turretin in a Baptist essay (I have not checked its accuracy, and the point for which it was presented was clearly to suggest both a particular exegesis of the baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch and a particular historical claim as to the practice of the primitive church): The passage…

  • The Real Turretin on: Federal Headship

    Here’s a brief quotation from the real Turretin on Adam’s headship of the human race. “Adam was the germ, root and head of the human race, not only in a physical sense and seminally, but morally and in a representative sense.” Read the rest here: (link). -Turretinfan To God be the Glory!

  • The Real Turretin – on Christian Liberty

    Andrew Compton has provided a transcription (with commentary) of what the Real Francis Turretin had to say about Christian Liberty (first part) (second part). These thoughts are especially timely in a day when the Baptists are drawing new battle lines over the issue of forbidding folks from drinking. Thanks, Andrew, for publishing his remarks! -Turretinfan…

  • What Watson and I believe about the Atonement

    Thomas Watson writes: *** Quotation from Body of Divinity *** Use one: Of instruction. (I.) See into what a wretched deplorable condition we had brought ourselves by sin; we had sinned ourselves into slavery, so that we needed Christ to purchase our redemption. Nihil durius servitute, says Cicero, ‘Slavery is the worst condition.’ Such as…