It may appear to some of our readers that the exposition we have given of John 3:16 in the chapter on ‘Difficulties and Objections’ is a forced and unnatural one,…
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It is now common among Reformed people that, when one confesses God’s election of some persons to salvation, God’s particular love for the elect, and God’s exclusive desire to save…
J. I. Packer’s introduction to a 1958 reprint of John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Owen…
II. The Nature and Agency of the Moral Revolution, Named Effectual Calling or Regeneration. This change must be more than an outer reformation of conduct, an inward revolution of first…
For the fourth Particular, and the clearing of Places alleged; we are, (1.) To consider if the Place, John 3.16, prove anything against us. (2.) If all Men, and all…
IV. Particular Redemption. ‘Did Christ die for the elect only, or for all men?’ The answer has been much prejudiced by ambiguous terms, such as particular atonement, limited atonement; or…
A doctrinal issue which is crucial to our understanding of God’s nature (i.e., His sovereignty) and the gospel is the extent of Christ’s atoning death on the cross.55 There are…
We say Christ so died that he infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ’s death not only may be saved, but are…
When Christ died, He died not simply to make redemption a possibility, but to make redemption a certainty. He did not simply die to make man redeemable, He died to…
Among those who generally accept the doctrine of a definite or limited atonement, it is often heard by way of explanation that ‘the atonement is sufficient for all, but efficient…
1. Statement of the Doctrine. 2. The Infinite Value of Christ’s Atonement. 3. The Atonement is Limited in Purpose and Application. 4. Christ’s Work as a Perfect Fulfillment of the…
I. State of the Question. This is a question between Augustinians and Anti-Augustinians. The former believing that God from all eternity having elected some to everlasting life, had a special…
Some persons love the doctrine of universal atonement because they say, ‘It is so beautiful. It is a lovely idea that Christ should have died for all men; it commends…
The purpose of this doctrinal tract is to set forth, in a readable outline form, a positive polemic for the doctrine of definite atonement — a doctrine which the author…
