The Way of Salvation As Seen Through the Heidelberg Catechism
The Way of Salvation As Seen Through the Heidelberg Catechism

Author: Cornelius Vankempen

Publisher: Wavecloud Corporation

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781535607544

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Mr. Van Kempen is a man whom the Lord has revealed Himself in sovereign grace in Christ. We both served the Lord's church in consistory for several years, which also included our visiting many elderly saints in their spiritual needs. We have been labeled "sidekicks" by those who find where one is, the other is sure to be near. Case speaks freely of his meditating upon the preciousness of Scripture and how sweet the Lord Jesus is to him. From this meditation, Case began to commit his thoughts on paper. Several years ago, I strongly suggested that Case collect these papers into a booklet of meditations. From a single booklet came another until Case reached one booklet for each month of the year for a daily devotion for the child of God. This current book had its beginning as Case began meditating upon the Heidelberg Catechism and again found its way into print. The entire Catechism is presented in 52 Lord's Days in short, pithy thoughts, of experiential salvation to the glory of God. Rev. D. J. VanderKlok

The New City Catechism
The New City Catechism

Author:

Publisher: Gospel Coalition

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433555077

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This modern-day catechism sets forth fifty-two questions and answers designed to build a framework to help adults and children alike understand core Christian beliefs.

Essays on Church, State, and Politics
Essays on Church, State, and Politics

Author: Christian Thomasius

Publisher: Natural Law and Enlightenment

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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The essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius's work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius's writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same time, owing to the depth of intellectual resources at his disposal, these works constitute a major contribution to the broader discussion of the relation between the religious and political spheres.

Prepared by Grace, for Grace
Prepared by Grace, for Grace

Author: Joel R. Beeke

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1601782357

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Few teachings of the Puritans have provoked such strong reactions and conflicting interpretations as their views on preparing for saving faith. Many twentieth-century scholars dismissed preparation as a prime example of regression from the Reformed doctrine of grace for a man-centered legalism. In Prepared by Grace, for Grace , Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley make careful analysis of the Puritan understanding of preparatory grace, demonstrate its fundamental continuity with the Reformed tradition, and identify matters where even the Puritans disagreed among themselves. Clearing away the many misconceptions and associated accusations of preparationism, this study is sure to be the standard work on how the Puritans understood the ordinary way God leads sinners to Christ. Table of Contents: Introduction: The Question of Preparationism 1. Preparation and Modern Scholarship 2. Precedents to Puritan Preparation: Augustine to Calvin 3. Preparation and Early English Puritans: Perkins, Sibbes, and Preston 4. Preparation for Conversion: William Ames 5. Preparation in Early New England (I): Thomas Hooker 6. Preparation in Early New England (II): Shepard and Pemble 7. Preparation and the Antinomian Controversy: John Cotton 8. Preparation at the Pinnacle of Puritanism: Westminster, Burroughs, and Guthrie 9. Preparation under a Scholastic Lens: Norton 10. Preparation and Later Puritan Critiques: Goodwin and Firmin 11. Later Puritan Preparation: Flavel and Bunyan 12. Jonathan Edwards and Seeking God 13. Continental Reformed Perspectives: Zwingli to Witsius 14. The Grace of Preparation for Faith Appendix: William Ames's Theological Disputation on Preparation