“IT IS GOOD FOR ME TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD” When in holy ecstacy the Psalmist sings: “I love the Lord, because He hath heard my voice and my supplication,” he pours out his whole soul in his song, but the love can not be …
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A CHRISTIAN POLITICAL MANIFESTO
CHAPTER FIVE – NO SECULAR STATE It teaches that in a Christian nation, that is, in a nation not without God, government as a servant of God is duty-bound to glorify his name and accordingly ought to (a) remove from administration and legislation anything that impedes …
Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World: The Historical Section
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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Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World: The Historical Section
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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Common Grace: God’s Gifts for a Fallen World: The Historical Section
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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