“Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
Rom. 8:30
“…Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
Eph. 5:25-27
“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”
Heb. 9:14
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Subsections
Calling
. Outward Call
. Effectual Call
Regeneration
Conversion
. Repentance
. Faith
Spiritual Union to Christ
Covenant of Grace
Justification
Adoption
Sanctification
Perseverance
Glorification
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Order of Contents
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Articles
1500’s
Musculus, Wolfgang – ‘Dispensation or Bestowing of the Grace of God & of Man’s Salvation Purchased by Christ the Redeemer’ in Common Places of the Christian Religion (1560; London, 1563), folio 140.a
Musculus taught a general redemption.
Viret, Pierre – A Christian Instruction… (London: Veale, 1573), A Familiar Exposition of the Principal Points of the Catechism
3rd Dialogue
Of the Communication in the Benefits of Jesus Christ
11th Dialogue: Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost Belonging Only to the Elect
Of the Number of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, & of the distribution of them
Of the Diversity of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost, and of the difference of them
Of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost necessary for every man to obtain salvation thereby
In what Sort Charity is Necessary to Salvation
Of the Regeneration of a Christian Man
Of the Life of the Regenerate Man
Zanchi, Girolamo – ‘Of the Dispensation of Salvation by Christ, out of the First Chapter of the Ephesians [20 Theses]’ (1580) in Confession of the Christian Religion… (1586; Cambridge, 1599), pp. 419-24
Zanchi (1516-1590) was an important rerformed, Italian, clergyman and educator, who influenced the development of reformed theology after Calvin’s death.
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), pt. 2, pp. 564-71 & 576-80
Of Christ’s Death, 3. The fruit of Christ’s death
‘The Third Day He Rose Again from the Dead’, 4. What are the Fruits of Christ’s Resurrection
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1600’s
Perkins, William – 58. Of the Application of Predestination in A Golden Chain (Cambridge: Legat, 1600)
van Mastricht, Peter – ch. 1, ‘The Nature of Application’ in Theoretical Practical Theology (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 5, pt. 1, bk. 6
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Books
1600’s
van Mastricht, Peter – Bk. 6, ‘Of the Application of Redemption’ in Theoretical-Practical Theology… (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 5
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1900’s
Murray, John – pt. 2, chs. 1-10 of Redemption Accomplished & Applied (Eerdmans, 1955), pp. 79-182 ToC
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Latin Articles
1500’s
Beza, Theodore – Theological Tracts… (Geneva, 1570), vol. 3, 13. A Most Complete Tract on the Doctrine & True Use of Predestination, out of Lectures of Theodore Beza on the 9th Chapter of the Letter to the Romans
Theses on the Particular Application of Predestination to the Elect… 439
Theses on the Application of the Doctrine of Reprobation to the Reprobate 439
Zanchi, Girolamo – 7, ‘The Application of Salvation by Christ, out of Eph. 1 [20 Theses]’ in The Faith of the Christian Religion (Newstadt, 1588; 1601), [Series of] Theses of Some Principal Articles of the Christian Faith Against Various Heresies, pp. 436-41
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1600’s
Burman, Francis – A Synopsis of Theology… (Utrecht, 1671), vol. 1, bk. 2, Locus 12, ‘Of the Execution of the Covenant of Grace’
16. Of the Promulgation & Application of the Covenant of Grace 497
17. Of the Subject of the Covenant of Grace. Where is treated of its latitude & universal grace 499-506
Burman (1628-79)
van Mastricht, Petrus – Theoretical & Practical Theology… new ed. (Utrecht, 1724), Book 6, of the Application of Redemption
1. Of the Nature of the Application 1 Pet. 1:2 737
2. Of the Calling of the Redeemed 1 Pet. 2:9 747
3. Of the Regeneration of the Redeemed Job 3:5 757
4. Of the Conversion of the Redeemed Jer. 31:18-19 774
5. Of the Union of the Redeemed with Christ 1 Cor. 1:30 789
6. Of the Justification of the Redeemed Rom. 3:22-27 799
7. Of the Adoption of the Redeemed 1 Jn. 3:1 823
8. Of the Sanctification of the Redeemed 1 Thess. 5:23 832
9. Of the Glorification of the Redeemed Rom. 8:39 855
Van Mastricht (1630-1706)
Heidegger, Johann H. – Theses 39-40, ‘Of the Application of the Covenant of Grace’ in Locus 11, ‘Of the Covenant of Grace’ in The Marrow of Christian Theology... (d. 1698; Zurich, 1713), pp. 250-51
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1700’s
Van Til (1643-1713)
Stapfer, Johann – 19, ‘Of the Application of the Means of Deliverance’ in Institutes of Universal Polemical Theology, Ordered in a Scientific Arrangement (Zurich, 1756), vol. 1, theses 1247-1473, pp. 352-408
Stapfer (1708-1775) was a professor of theology at Bern. He was influenced by the philosophical rationalism of Christian Wolff, though, by him “the orthodox reformed tradition was continued with little overt alteration of the doctrinal loci and their basic definitions.” – Richard Muller
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“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”
Titus 2:14
“God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
Gal. 4:4-5
“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, He shall see his seed, He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.”
Isa. 53:10
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