Office Hours: Campegius Vitringa

R. Scott Clark

on December 26, 2016

God’s people have been reading and studying His Word for a very long time but much of that work is lost to most of us because it remains untranslated from Latin (0r Greek). The Reformed tradition begins with a profound commitment to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (5)

R. Scott Clark

on December 23, 2016

VII. However, although he was free from the slavery of sin (because created just and upright) still he was not free from mutability (because whatever his holiness and righteousness, he was mutable, from which in consequence he could fall). Adam was placed . . . Continue reading →

New Canadian Law Goes To War Against Nature

R. Scott Clark

on December 23, 2016 | 1 Comment

Laws such as Bill 28 put children and their biological parents on notice that they have no legal right to exist in a family without special permission from the state. This law lays the groundwork for legally separating all children from their . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (4)

R. Scott Clark

on December 22, 2016

VI. The liberty of Adam was not the liberty of independence (as if he was irresponsible [anypeuthynos] and absolutely his own master) because he ought always to be in subjection (as a creature to his Creator, as a second cause to the . . . Continue reading →

Confessional Protestantism Is Evangelical But Distinct From Evangelicalism

R. Scott Clark

on December 22, 2016 | 4 Comments

Both Bob and I wrote the book as catholic Christians—those who hold to the creeds of the ancient church—and as evangelical Christians—those who believe in justification by grace through faith and identify with ecclesiastical bodies which subscribe to Reformation confessions. To use . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (3)

R. Scott Clark

on December 21, 2016

IV. Liberty is fourfold: (1) the liberty of independence which belongs to God as the first being; this is opposed to the necessity of dependence which belongs to all creatures. (2) Liberty from coaction by which man acts spontaneously and with freedom; . . . Continue reading →

A Index In The Culture Of Death

R. Scott Clark

on December 21, 2016

Much of the Congressional support for the 1993 NIH revitalization act was premised on the idea that the ban on buying or selling fetal tissue would be a safeguard against the development for a market for human fetuses. Tragically, the executive branch . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (2)

R. Scott Clark

on December 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

II. By the state of innocence, we mean the first condition of man created after the image of God in internal goodness and external happiness. As it abounded in all goods (of the body as well as of the soul) necessary for . . . Continue reading →

The Irony Of The Myth Of Influence

R. Scott Clark

on December 18, 2016 | 3 Comments

For a long time, I have felt that the cause of biblical Christianity has been undermined in our time by sincere people who engage in unbiblical activities for the sake of being an influence. The sad and ironic result of those actions . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (1)

R. Scott Clark

on December 17, 2016

First Question What was the liberty of Adam in his state of innocence? I. Since man can be viewed in a fourfold state—the instituted (instituto) of nature, the destitute (destituto) of sin, the restored (restituto) of grace and the appointed (praestituto) of . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (9)

R. Scott Clark

on December 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

XXVI. What is said by some (“Infants are baptized in the faith of their parents”) does not mean that what is in adults is imputed to infants or answers for infants; both because each one lives by his own faith and because . . . Continue reading →

Reasoned Discourse: The University’s Birthright

R. Scott Clark

on December 16, 2016

A university has sold its birthright for a mess of pottage when it surrenders its role as a facilitator of reasoned discourse to gain acceptance from an angry mob who happen to be expressing the campus culture’s currently popular “cause du jour.” . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (8)

R. Scott Clark

on December 14, 2016 | 8 Comments

XXI. Baptism (with respect to true believers) seals saving grace because it is connected with the internal baptism of the Spirit. But with respect to hypocrites, it does not have the accompanying grace of the Spirit, but is only a badge of . . . Continue reading →

Taking The Reformation Back To Poland

R. Scott Clark

on December 14, 2016 | 8 Comments

Tolle Lege Institute is helping to bring the Reformation back to Poland, where the Reformed churches once flourished.

Heidelcast 122: Rise, Make For Us Gods (With Chris Gordon)

Heidelcast

on December 13, 2016 | 2 Comments

This past Lord’s Day morning we began the new week by hearing a sermon, an exposition of God’s Word and a proclamation of the law and the gospel. In our congregation we heard a sermon from the first part of Exodus 32. . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Godfrey On Luther (2)

R. Scott Clark

on December 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

At the turn of the 21st century there was a great deal of discussion about who were the most important figures in the last 1000 years. In 2017 we will celebrate the life and significance of one of those epochal figures: Martin . . . Continue reading →

Lutherpalooza Is On

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2016

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (7)

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2016

XVIII. The cause of infant baptism is not the actual faith of infants, of which they are no more capable than of that instruction by which the disciples of Christ are taught (Mt. 28:19). But it is both the universal command to . . . Continue reading →

Trueman On Tone: Niceness Cannot Be Squared With The Reformation

R. Scott Clark

on December 9, 2016 | 4 Comments

…If you are looking for politeness in the Reformers, then you are going to have to buy a microscope. Courtesy in polemic was a rare commodity, as even the woodcuts frequently demonstrate. True, there is some evidence that the French editions of . . . Continue reading →

U.S.N. Admiral: The Men And Women At Pearl Harbor Never Took A Knee

R. Scott Clark

on December 8, 2016