Heidelcast 111: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (7)

Heidelcast

on July 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

This is episode 7 of our series: I will be a God to You and to Your Children. For the last two episodes we have been thinking about what is temporary and what is permanent in the history of redemption. We have . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 112: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (8)

Heidelcast

on August 11, 2016

This is episode 8 of our series: I will be a God to You and to Your Children. Last time we looked at circumcision, about which we saw that, just as with the bloodshed of the sacrifice of pigeons, bulls, goats, and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 113: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (9)

Heidelcast

on August 16, 2016

Does initiation of covenant children into the visible covenant people expire with the new covenant? Is the new covenant absolutely relatively new? Is it new relative to Abraham or new relative to Moses? These are the topics we’re investigating in this episode of the Heidelcast. Continue reading →

Witsius: In Leviticus 18:5 Moses Repeated The Covenant Of Works

R. Scott Clark

on September 2, 2016

The same doctrine Moses repeated in his ministry. For he also inculcated the same precepts upon which the covenant of works had been built: he both repeated the same solemn saying, He who doeth these things shall live in them, Lev. 18:5 . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 115: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (11)

Heidelcast

on September 10, 2016 | 3 Comments

In this episode we see that the benefits of the New Covenant are the benefits of the covenant of grace. There are some who see a strong discontinuity between the promises made to Abraham and the new covenant promised Jeremiah 31. There . . . Continue reading →

Hodge: Abraham Was In A Spiritual, Gracious Covenant

R. Scott Clark

on October 16, 2016 | 16 Comments

Although the Church existed from the beginning, it was, before the calling of Abraham, for the most part in a state of dispersion. Too little is recorded of it, prior to that event, to give us definite knowledge of its nature and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 119: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (14)

Heidelcast

on November 20, 2016

This series has really been about how to interpret Scripture. Christians study the same Bible, but we often read it differently. Sometimes we begin with different assumptions about the nature of things and authority. These different methods and starting points lead to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (2)

R. Scott Clark

on November 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

VI. To no purpose is the reply: (1) “Hence it would follow that the Lord’s Supper should also be administered to infants because the thing signified belongs to them.” Although the same thing is signified in both, still there is a difference . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (3)

R. Scott Clark

on November 27, 2016 | 2 Comments

VII. (3) By parity, the necessity of baptism is the same as that of circumcision. Now circumcision was to be administered to infants according to the command of God. Therefore also infant baptism. The truth of the major is proved (a) because . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (4)

R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

IX. (5) Because the children of believers are holy; therefore they ought to be baptized. For since they have the thing signified, they cannot and ought not to be deprived of the sign (Acts 10:47). “The unbelieving wife,” says the apostle, “is . . . Continue reading →

Circumcision Was Always About The Necessity Of Regeneration

R. Scott Clark

on November 29, 2016 | 5 Comments

HB reader Allan writes, The NT apostolic doctrine is that OT circumcision of the flesh is replaced by NT circumcision of the heart. I have not found them saying it is replaced by baptism. Allan, Circumcision was always a sign of what . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (6)

R. Scott Clark

on December 3, 2016

XII. There was no need that a particular precept concerning the baptism of infants should be given because it was known to the disciples that infants were circumcised. It therefore sufficed that there was a general command to baptize all nations, under . . . Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Sola Scriptura Contra The Anabaptists In 1523–24

R. Scott Clark

on April 26, 2017 | 4 Comments

In his second disputation with Balthasar Hubmair, in 1523, Huldrych Zwingli well articulated the formal principle of the Reformation: “For in all controversies concerning faith and religion, the divine Scripture alone ought to be our measure and rule rather than oral tradition.” . . . Continue reading →

Did The Covenant Of Grace Begin In The New Covenant?

R. Scott Clark

on June 14, 2017 | 32 Comments

One frequently reads that the only real differences between Particular Baptists and the Reformed is over baptism. That claim, however, misses some fundamental differences. Baptists withhold the rite of covenant initiation from the children of believers on the ground that the New . . . Continue reading →

Believer, You Are Being Graciously Sanctified

R. Scott Clark

on June 20, 2017 | 2 Comments

An HB reader writes to ask “in what senses are we under the covenant of works?” I reply Christians are in no sense under the covenant of works for our standing with God or for our salvation. Our justification and our sanctification . . . Continue reading →

Our Secular Life Is A Covenant Of Works

R. Scott Clark

on June 22, 2017 | 7 Comments

It is vital for Christians to understand that, for their standing with God (justification) and their gracious and gradual conformity to Christ (sanctification), i.e., for their salvation from the wrath to come and their deliverance from the bondage of sin, they are . . . Continue reading →

Does Covenant Theology Change Our Doctrine Of Predestination?

R. Scott Clark

on August 4, 2017 | 2 Comments

Baptism, Election & the Covenant of Grace

HB reader Keith asks, Succinctly, what is covenant theology on the following: Predestination Security of the believer? Hi Keith, The short answer is that the covenant theology that we confess does not fundamentally change our doctrine of predestination, which says that all . . . Continue reading →

Luther: Christians Have The Same Faith As Abraham

R. Scott Clark

on September 28, 2017 | 7 Comments

Therefore the only difference between Abraham’s faith and ours is this: Abraham believed in the Christ who was to be manifested, but we believe in the Christ who has already been manifested; and by that faith we are all saved. Martin Luther . . . Continue reading →