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Temporary Faith – Ralph Erskine
(4.) There is a temporary faith, that goes beyond all the former, and is effected by the common operation of the Spirit of God: nor is it merely taken up with the truth of the gospel, but also hath some relish of the goodness and sweetness of it; and hence the stonyground hearers are said…
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Gospel Poetry
The following video provides some Gospel poetry. It is in a fairly modern style – what would be considered “frestyle rap.” http://www.youtube.com/v/dPZlzDTdSsE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1 I am not sure the context where this came from and I don’t even know the name of the man bearing witness to the truth of the Gospel. This is a good message,…
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The Nature and Excellency of Gospel Purity (Part IX)
SERMON IX. THE NATURE AND EXCELLENCY OF Gospel Purity. (by Ralph Erskine) “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” — PROV. xxx. 12. IT is a sad sentence when God passes it upon any, “He which is filthy, let him be filthy still:”…
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Active Progressive Sanctification
The next post (i.e. the post that is about to be published), is a sermon from Pastor Ralph Erskine. I found it to be a convicting sermon. I hope some of my readers (perhaps those stuck away from church this Lord’s Day) will find it edifying, though I recognize that it is rather longer than…
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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…