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This is an excellent passage in volume two of Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics, p. 296-97: True, the use of extrabiblical terms was condemned by the Arians as well as by the representatives of many schools of thought in later times, … Continue reading →

Hodge, Charles.  An Exposition of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, n.d., 56-58 (Language modernized by N.M. where necessary). For the letter (i.e., the law) kills, but the spirit (i.e., the gospel) gives life.  This is the … Continue reading →

The following is John Owen’s summary of the Socinian John Biddle’s views in the form of a catechism, as found in Vindiciae Evangelicae (Oxford, 1655). I have modernized the English (especially the spelling) where necessary. In this, Owen demonstrates the … Continue reading →

Introduction In the summer of 115 AD, Polycarp, one of the πρεσβύτεροι of the church in Smyrna, met Ignatius, an ἐπίσκοπος from Antioch who was passing through Smyrna in the custody of Roman soldiers.[1] After spending some time corresponding with … Continue reading →

How much good it would do if good friends would come together on a Sunday and instead of getting out glasses, cards, or dice would take up a book and read from it for the edification of all or would … Continue reading →

Ignatius of Loyola “To Have the True Sentiment Which We Ought to Have in the Church Militant, Let the Following Rules be Observed.  Rule Thirteen: To be right in everything, we ought always to hold that the white which I … Continue reading →

At stake is not whether certain theologians and preachers affirm the third use of the law, but what use is made of the law in preaching and teaching, and whether it is presented in all of its aspects: not only … Continue reading →