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• Samuel West, Calvinism, and the Big Tent

  
  American Creation — Authority: 477
  With Thanks to Jonathan Rowe For Editorial Suggestions. Following up on my last post , I study more from Jeffry H. Morrisons paper entitled, " Political Theology in the Declaration of Independence ." Lets focus more on the sermon by Samuel West that Morrison discusses in his paper. In the passage reproduced ...
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• JC 52 No 48

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  On the begining of Luke 2 and Providence Thus we see that the holy servants of God, even though they wander from their design, unconscious where they are going, still keep the right path, because God directs their steps. Nor is the Providence of God less wonderful in employing the mandate of a tyrant to draw Mary ...
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• JC 52 No 47

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  On the annunciation to Mary The prophecy respecting John was published in the temple and universally known: Christ is promised to a virgin in an obscure town of Judea, and this prophecy remains buried in the breast of a young woman. But it was proper that, even from the birth of Christ, that saying should be ...
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• 52 JC No 46

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  Worshippers sincere and hypocritical (from the commentary) Commandments and ordinances differ thus. The latter term relates strictly to exercises of piety and of divine worship; the latter is more general, and extends both to the worship of God and to the duties of charity. ... Now, though hypocrites, in that ...
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• Calvin on Joy in the Christmas Message

  
  Oversight of Souls — Authority: 420
  If you have read John Calvin but have not read from his sermons, you have missed his best. I have been edified this past week in reading from Songs of the Nativity , a new translation of selected sermons from Luke 1&2 (only one of which has previously appeared in English). In commenting on the angel’s ...
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• JOHN CALVIN GOES TO BERKELEY

  
  Classical Arminianism — Authority: 126
  Had I titled this novel, it might have read John Calvin Goes to Berkeley: And Managed not to Burn Anyone at the Stake . It is clear from the demeanor of the leading strict Calvinist in the novel, Rod, that, had he lived during the time of Calvin, he would have glared approvingly at the burning of the infamous heretic ...
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• JC 52 No 45

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  In his commentary Calvin says Luke very properly begins his Gospel with John the Baptist, just as a person who was going to speak about the daylight would commence with the dawn. For, like the dawn, he went before the Sun of Righteousness, which was shortly to arise. Others also mention him, but they bring him ...
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• Calvin, Ponnet, and Deposing Tyrants

  
  American Creation — Authority: 477
  Jon Rowe stated the following in his last post about Romans 13: " Another authentic expression of orthodox Trinitarian political theology is that Romans 13 gives guidelines for rulers, but ultimately demands submission to government no matter WHO is in power, even if pagan tyrants. This was ...
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• Calvin on the “Sacred,” the “Secular,” and “the Kingdom”

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 561
  Therefore, to perceive more clearly how far the mind can proceed in any matter according to the degree of its ability, we must here set forth a distinction. This, then, is the distinction: that there is one kind of understanding of earthly things; another of heavenly. I call “earthly things” those which [...]
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• Making God Up As You Go Along

  
  The Weight of Glory — Authority: 135
  John Calvin on devising our own ‘gods’: “The pious mind does not devise for itself any kind of God, but looks alone to the one true God; nor does it feign for him any character it pleases, but is contented to have him in the character in which he manifests itself.  …But we are all alike in this, that we ...
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• John Adams and Romans 13

  
  American Creation — Authority: 477
  In a se ries of posts I have attempted to ignite a discussion about whether Christian ideas helped shape America and bring us into the modern world with the following questions: Which Christian ideas, if any, helped bring us into the modern world? And ...
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• John Calvin and Jim Babka on the "Doctrine of Interposition"

  
  American Creation — Authority: 477
  In my last series of posts I have been trying to shift the frame of discussion from focusing on which people of the founding era were or were not Christian to which ideas of the founding era were or were not Christian.  I have also tried to narrow down the topic to how the ideas of the founding era helped or hindered ...
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• Reformed or Not, You Can Learn from John Calvin

  
  Elect Exiles — Authority: 409
  John Calvin (1509 – 1564) is a giant in church history. He published his first edition of a systematic theology, Institutes of the Christian Religion , when he was twenty-seven. He even wrote more commentaries than John MacArthur! I think. His name probably stands at the top of the list of the magisterial ...
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• Seeking God’s Heart

  
  reformed blogging. — Authority: 103
  “If we seek God’s fatherly gentleness and His heart which is favorably disposed toward us, we must in the first place direct our eyes to Christ in whom alone the heart of the Father rests.” – John Calvin,  Institutes , III, xxiv, 5. Tagged: John Calvin
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• Calvin on the Church and Salvation

  
  caf de soire — Authority: 413
  I am in the middle of writing a paper on the relationship of the church and salvation, and it includes this, from John Calvins seminal work, the Institutes of the Christian Religion : Let us even learn from the simple title ‘mother’ how useful, indeed how necessary, it is that we should know her. For ...
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• 52 JC No 44

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  On church discipline. Again from The Necessity of Reforming the Church via Garry Williams "If anyone is desirous of a clearer and more familiar illustration, I would say, that rule in the church, the pastoral office, and all other matters of order, resemble the body, whereas the doctrine which regulates the ...
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• 52 JC No 43

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  This from "On the Necessity of Reforming the Church," as quoted by Garry Williams "If it be inquired, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing existence among us and maintains its truth, it will be found that the following two not only occupy the principal place, but comprehend ...
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• 52 JC No 42

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  Preaching again. On October 22, 1548, Calvin wrote to Protector Somerset as follows (See Calvins Selected Works, Vol. 5 (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1983), 190). As quoted by Dr Oliver. All these considerations [the problems particular to pre-Elizabethan England] ought not to hinder the ordinance of Jesus ...
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• Westminster 09 2a

  
  Heavenly Worldliness — Authority: 136
  The first paper of the second day was given by Robert Oliver of Bradford on Avon. He spoke on Calvin and Elizabeth I. This is not an obvious topic but there was certainly material enough. Dr Oliver began with Elizabeth. He sketched the background from Henry VIII through Edward VI and Cranmers correspondence with ...
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• Derek Thomas on John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor

  
  Heidelblog — Authority: 561
  Derek says at Ref21 “by far and away the best book on Calvin this year, our very own Robert Godfrey’s John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor (Crossway). If you buy nothing else this year on Calvin – get this one and you will not be disappointed.”Posted in Calvin Studies, John Calvin, Westminster Seminary California ...
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