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Dabney Recommends for Sermon Preparation …
[After deducing the question from the text to be preached upon,] I proceed to study authorities, as time allows: first the Holy Scriptures, and then the soundest treatises, such as those of Turrettin and Owen. As I read I keep pencil and paper by me, and jot down everything which strikes me as possibly a…
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The Real Turretin on: The Definition of "Catholic"
Catholicity, in the absolute sense of the word, as Turrettin remarks, can be predicated only of that society that includes the Church triumphant in heaven, as well as militant on earth, that society that comprehends all the elect, reaching back to the days of Abel, and onward to the last trumpet. Institutio Theologiae Elencticae, Francisco…
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The Real Turretin on: The Definition of "Catholic"
Catholicity, in the absolute sense of the word, as Turrettin remarks, can be predicated only of that society that includes the Church triumphant in heaven, as well as militant on earth, that society that comprehends all the elect, reaching back to the days of Abel, and onward to the last trumpet. Institutio Theologiae Elencticae, Francisco…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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;…
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Turretin – Copernicus – Einstein – Advantages of Time
One of the few criticisms of Turretin that one is wont to find among theologians during the Industrial Revolution, was that Turretin rejected Copernicus’ heliocentricism. If science had never progressed beyond Copernicus, we might (as part of the necessary bowing and scraping to the religion of science) likewise criticize the great reformer for insisting that…
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The Real Turretin on: Ordination
“While the ministry flourishes in the Church, it (the Church) ought indeed to use it (the ministry) in the calling of pastors, nor can pastors be ordinarily instituted except by a ministry already constituted ” (says Turrettin). (source – p. 270 – no specific citation to Turretin) Turrettin lays it down that “the pastors exercise…
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The Real Turretin on: The Persons of the Trinity
Says Turrettin, III. xxix. 21. “The Father does not generate the Son either as previously existing, for in this case there would be no need of generation; nor yet as not yet existing, for in this case the Son would not be eternal; but as co-existing; because he is from eternity in the God-head.” As…