CHAPTER TWO: THE STARTING POINT OF THE DOCTRINE OF COMMON GRACE “This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry …
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INTRODUCTION When God’s patience waited in the days of Noah. 1st Peter 3:20 § 1 With its appearance in 1878, the initial summons to duty that De Heraut sounded throughout our country once again bore witness to our people regarding the Calvinistic confession of our …
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PREFACE The Reformed paradigm has suffered no damage greater than its deficient development of the doctrine of common grace. The cause for this deficiency was the struggle to preserve its hard-won position, a tireless battle with pen and sword. Wrestling to dislodge the ecclesiastical monopoly …
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THE EPISTLE TO PHILEMON 1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer, 1 Paulus vinctus Christi Iesu et Timotheus frater Philemoni amico et cooperario nostro, 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the …
CHAPTER 3 1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 1 Admone illos, ut principatibus et potestatibus subditi sint, ut magistratibus pareant, ut ad omne opus bonum sint parati, 2 To speak evil of …
CHAPTER 2 1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 1 Tu verò loquere quæ decent sanam doctrinam. 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 2 Senes ut sobrii sint, graves, temperantes, sani fide, dilectione, patientia. 3 The aged …
CHAPTER 1 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 1 Paulus servus Dei, Apostolus autem Iesu Christi, secundum fidem electorum Dei et agnitionem veritatis ejus, …
CHAPTER 4 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 1 Obtestor igitur ego coram Deo et Domino Iesu Christo, qui judicaturus est vivos et mortuos in apparitione sua …
CHAPTER 3 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come: 1 Illud autem scito, quòd extremis diebus instabunt tempora periculosa (vel, gravia.) 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 2 Erunt enim …
CHAPTER 2 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 1 Tu ergo, fili mi, fortis esto in gratia, quæ est in Christo Iesu. 2 And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou …
