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Category: Quotation

  • The real Francis Turretin on: Meditating on the Cross

    The Evangelical Reformed Fellowship Perspectives blog has provided a short but nice quotation from the real Francis Turretin on the importance of meditating on the cross (link). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • The real Francis Turretin on: The Relation of Christ to God’s Love

    The Howling Wilderness blog (which has a lovely Slavic subtitle that reminds me that there is an end to the howling wilderness of our pilgrimage in the heavenly rest) has a quotation from the real Francis Turretin on the topic of the relation of God’s love to Christ’s work as mediator (link). It’s important to…

  • The real Francis Turretin on: Invocation of Saints by Prayer

    Marc Lloyd has kindly provided a nice collection of quotations from the real Francis Turretin on the invocation of dead saints by prayer. (link). Of particular note, Turretin deals with the argument from requesting prayers from our fellow brethren. This argument’s been around a long time and is just as wrong today as it was…

  • The real Francis Turretin on: Centrality of Justification

    John Fonville, of the Paramount Church, has kindly selected as his weekly quotation a nice selection from Francis Turretin on the importance of justification (although the quotation includes the questionable attribution of a particular quotation to Luther that may only be a paraphrase of Luther). (source) To God be the Glory!

  • Gregory of Nyssa on the Illustration of Divine Beauty

    Gregory of Nyssa makes no reference to icons/statues/etc. but instead provides a very Reformed view of how the Divine Beauty is illustrated for us: “It is true, indeed, that the Divine beauty is not adorned with any shape or endowment of form, by any beauty of colour, but is contemplated as excellence in unspeakable bliss.…

  • Calvin on Birthdays – Don’t Overdo It

    Calvin wrote: With regard to what Moses records, that Pharaoh celebrated his birthday by a great feast, we know that this custom has always been in use, not only among kings, but also among plebeian men. Nor is the custom to be condemned, if only men would keep the right end in view; namely, that…

  • The real Francis Turretin on: Continuing vs. Abrogated Portions of Civil Law

    One of the areas where I might disagree (with respect to some of the nuances) with the real Francis Turretin, is in his treatment of the Old Testament civil law. Nevertheless, as Andrew Myers has (at Virginia is for Hugenots) kindly provided a quotation from Turretin on this subject (along with other interesting related material),…

  • The real Francis Turretin on: the Duty of Faith

    Beng at Call it Grace has just discovered Francis Turretin and provided some good quotations from the real Francis Turretin on the duty that men have to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (link). -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • >The real Francis Turretin on: the Hypostatic Union

    >Henry Bartsch at the Like a Bell blog, has provided an interesting post on the hypostatic union. His focus is on Calvin’s Institutes but he provides an interesting quotation on the subject from that leading Calvinist theologian, the real Francis Turretin (link). Enjoy! -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!

  • >The real Francis Turretin on: Theology and the Creator/Creature Distinction

    >At Against Heresies, Martin Downes has provided some thoughts on theology in general including some interesting quotations on the subject of theology as well as its relation to the Creator/Creature distinction. (source) God is great! -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!