On The Next Heidelcast: Conditions And The Covenant Of Grace (pt 1)
On the next Heidelcast, which goes out later tonight, we take up the thorny topic of conditions in the covenant of grace. By nature grace is unconditional. If we must meet a condition to receive grace...
View ArticleHeidelcast 46: Conditions And The Covenant Of Grace (Pt 1)
In Reformed theology we speak of three covenants, the pre-temporal covenant of redemption, the covenant of works, and the covenant of grace. In the covenant of redemption there are two aspects, works...
View ArticleHeidelcast: Conditions And The Covenant Of Grace (pt 2)
On today’s Heidelcast, part 2 of our discussion about conditions in the covenant of grace. In episode 46 I tried to establish a distinction between two kinds of conditions in the covenant of grace:...
View ArticleIt Was A Covenant Of Works, Not A Covenant Of Grace
. . . though this flattening of the covenant relationship throughout the course of history, before and after the fall, may have a superficial appeal, it has huge implications for the way we interpret...
View ArticleResources On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace (Updated)
Some thoughts relative to the current discussion about the nature of conditions in the covenant of grace: First, we cannot get this right unless we distinguish between the covenant of works and the...
View ArticleJohn Brown of Haddington On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace
When condition is improperly taken, and signifies no more than what particular duties as performed must, in the order of nature, precede the enjoyment of particular promised benefits, many things may...
View ArticleThe Synod Of Dort On Election, Conditions Of Salvation, And Fruit (1)
The Reformed churches have endured discussions and disagreements about salvation (justification, sanctification, and deliverance from the wrath to come) before. Beginning in the late 16th century a...
View ArticleAn Important Distinction Between Kinds And Functions Of Conditions
When we use the word “condition,” the first sense that probably comes to mind, in English usage, is the first definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary: “convention, stipulation, proviso.”...
View ArticleThe Synod Of Dort On Election, Conditions Of Salvation, And Fruit (2)
Here the true nature of the Remonstrant doctrine of perseverance emerges: God helps those who help themselves by cooperating with his "assisting grace." This is quite another picture of salvation. Here...
View ArticlePerkins: Faith Is The Instrument Of Salvation
Objection 8. In respect of God, who is truth itself, we are to believe the promise in particular: yet if we respect our own unworthiness and indisposition, we are to fear and in some part to doubt. For...
View ArticleBall: The Covenant Of Works Conditioned Upon Perfect Obedience In His Own Person
The Covenant of Works, wherein God covenanted with man to give him eternal life upon condition of perfect obedience in his own person. The Covenant of Grace, which God made with man promising eternal...
View ArticleSibbes: Our Communion Was First Founded Upon A Covenant Of Works
This communion and fellowship of man with God, was first founded on a covenant of works made with Adam in paradise. If he did obey, and did not eat of the forbidden fruit, he should have life both for...
View ArticleResources On The Controversy Over “Final Salvation Through Works”
For the last several years several writers identified with the broader Reformed movement have proposed that Christians are saved initially by grace alone, through faith alone but finally through faith...
View ArticleHeidelcast Minute: What Are The Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace?
RESOURCES Heidelcast 98: Salvation, Good Works, And Conditions Resources On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace (Updated) Resources On Norman Shepherd Resources On The Federal Vision Theology
View ArticleBoston: Christ Fulfilled The Condition
It is by this, and this alone, the salvation of sinners becomes a debt: therefore this alone is the condition of the covenant. For the reward is of debt to him, and him only, who fulfills the condition...
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