NINE years have now elapsed since Albertus Pighius, the Campanian, a man of evidently phrensied audacity, attempted, at the same time, and in the same book, to establish the free-will…
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From what has been said concerning the election of some, it would unavoidably follow, even supposing the Scriptures had been silent about it, that there must be a rejection of…
‘In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.‘ — Eph. 1:11….
‘What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.‘ — Rom. 9:22. ‘In whom…
‘But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of…
This is a sad state of mind that people fall into sometimes, in which they do not know the difference between God and Fate. One of the most astonishing illustrations…
This essay was originally published in The Christian Workers Magazine, Dec. 1916, pp. 265-267. A great man of the last generation began the preface of a splendid little book he…
‘And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship. – Paul said to…
The electing and rejecting God is Supreme. Such is the plain teaching of Scripture. To deny the sovereign character of elective grace is to deny that God is God. It…
The doctrine of predestination has fallen on hard times. Not that it was ever very popular. Given today’s theological climate, most Christians probably think that predestination – to the extent…
Delivered on Sabbath Morning, September 2, 1855, at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. ‘But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord,…
This article was originally published in 1918 by the Presbyterian Board of Publication as a pamphlet of twenty-two pages. ‘By grace have ye been saved,’ says Paul to the Ephesians…
Election is the decree of God by which He in perfect sovereignty determined in which persons, known to Him by name in Christ, He has decided to magnify His mercy…
The Old School or Primitive Baptists in former years have been very definitely identified and distinguished from all other religious or ecclesiastical organizations as Predestinarian Baptists, and as such have…
Consideration: When the Apostle saith that election is not of works, and proveth it by this: that before Esau and Jacob were born, &c., it was said of them the…
…Permit me to remind you in the first place, of that important aphorism, John 3:27 (which by the by seems to speak strongly in favor of the doctrines in question)…
Reading Thomas Talbott’s article ‘On predestination, reprobation, and the love of God’ (RJ, Feb., 1983) brought back a grievous experience I had when some of George MacDonald’s sermons were published…
Election as a doctrine of the church is often either little understood, or emphatically contradicted. There is either ignorance of this truth, or a deliberate misunderstanding of it. What is…
