Theology
Theology
Theology
Common Objections to Theology
The question of why we do theology presses hard against us in this age. A number of objections are raised against the discipline of systematic theology. Though we deal with them individually here, we realize that in many cases they appear in combinations. Each objection rejects theology as a valuable...
Theology
Assurance Must Be Actively Pursued as a Duty
Westminster Confession 18.3 says that “it is the duty of every one to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure” (cf. 2 Peter 1:10). As concerned souls, we should never rest until we can say that God is our God. In a sermon on particular election, Charles...
Theology
The Sealer of Our Souls
The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, meticulously edited with a 110- page memoir by Alexander Grosart, was published by James Nichol of Edinburgh in the 1860s and reprinted by the Banner of Truth Trust. Sibbes’s most famous work, The Bruised Reed, which has done so much good in healing troubled...
Theology
The Indwelling Spirit
The Complete Works of Richard Sibbes, meticulously edited with a 110- page memoir by Alexander Grosart, was published by James Nichol of Edinburgh in the 1860s and reprinted by the Banner of Truth Trust. Sibbes’s most famous work, The Bruised Reed, which has done so much good in healing troubled...
Theology
The Place of the Law in the Christian Life
As seen above, the Law’s end is in Christ’s work, but the Law is not abolished, nor does the experience of God’s grace detract from the authority and permanence of the Law of God. So, how did the Puritans work out the implications of this in Christian experience? First, the...
Theology
Knowing God According to His Self-Revelation
The Puritans rightly believed that though “the magnitude of God’s perfections is well beyond the reach of our finite understanding,” yet “we can know what He has chosen to reveal.” On the one hand, God is incomparable and incomprehensible. “For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD?...
Theology
Christ’s Gift
Let us consider what Christ did when He came to heaven and was exalted there. He abundantly made good all that He had promised in His last sermon! He instantly poured out His Spirit, and that “richly” (as the apostle speaks to Titus). “Being by the right hand of God...
Theology
To Die
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto...
Theology
Jesus’ Tears in Gethsemane
Hebrews 5:7 tells us that Jesus also wept in Gethsemane. It says that in the days of His flesh, Jesus “offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death.” The gospel writers do not specifically record that Jesus wept...
