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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. Tin corruption of man'i whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and first of tlie depravation of the understanding, which is full of darkness and blinded, so that it cannot apprehend spirituat things in a due spiritual manner. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and said and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesui Christ.?1 Thes. V. 28. CHAPTER I. wards of the text explained.?That all the faculties of tlie soul, even the mind, are wliolly corrupted, proved from the expressions concerning it in Scripture, and from the equal extent both of sin and grace. These words have no coherence or dependence with the foregoing, for the conclusion of the epistle doth begin with them. They are a prayer for the working and perfecting that sanctification in them unto which he had exhorted, and which God had begun to work. Concerning which you have these things. 1. The author of this sanctification, God, to whom Paul prays to work and perfect it. And in prayer believers use to suit their invocation to God, according to the nature of the blessing they seek for. James i. 5, ' If auy of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ' ver. 17, ' the Father of lights.' So if we pray for mercy and comfort, then we are to call upon God, as the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, as Paul doth, 2 Cor. i. 8, ' Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' Yet still we are to use such expressions, both as motives to move God out of his fulness to bestow what we ask, and as a strengthening to our own faith. And accordingly here in the text, when Panl asks sanctification at God's hands, he looks up to him as ' the God of peace.' Sin...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. Tin corruption of man'i whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and first of tlie depravation of the understanding, which is full of darkness and blinded, so that it cannot apprehend spirituat things in a due spiritual manner. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and said and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesui Christ.?1 Thes. V. 28. CHAPTER I. wards of the text explained.?That all the faculties of tlie soul, even the mind, are wliolly corrupted, proved from the expressions concerning it in Scripture, and from the equal extent both of sin and grace. These words have no coherence or dependence with the foregoing, for the conclusion of the epistle doth begin with them. They are a prayer for the working and perfecting that sanctification in them unto which he had exhorted, and which God had begun to work. Concerning which you have these things. 1. The author of this sanctification, God, to whom Paul prays to work and perfect it. And in prayer believers use to suit their invocation to God, according to the nature of the blessing they seek for. James i. 5, ' If auy of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ' ver. 17, ' the Father of lights.' So if we pray for mercy and comfort, then we are to call upon God, as the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, as Paul doth, 2 Cor. i. 8, ' Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' Yet still we are to use such expressions, both as motives to move God out of his fulness to bestow what we ask, and as a strengthening to our own faith. And accordingly here in the text, when Panl asks sanctification at God's hands, he looks up to him as ' the God of peace.' Sin...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. Tin corruption of man'i whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and first of tlie depravation of the understanding, which is full of darkness and blinded, so that it cannot apprehend spirituat things in a due spiritual manner. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and said and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesui Christ.?1 Thes. V. 28. CHAPTER I. wards of the text explained.?That all the faculties of tlie soul, even the mind, are wliolly corrupted, proved from the expressions concerning it in Scripture, and from the equal extent both of sin and grace. These words have no coherence or dependence with the foregoing, for the conclusion of the epistle doth begin with them. They are a prayer for the working and perfecting that sanctification in them unto which he had exhorted, and which God had begun to work. Concerning which you have these things. 1. The author of this sanctification, God, to whom Paul prays to work and perfect it. And in prayer believers use to suit their invocation to God, according to the nature of the blessing they seek for. James i. 5, ' If auy of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ' ver. 17, ' the Father of lights.' So if we pray for mercy and comfort, then we are to call upon God, as the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, as Paul doth, 2 Cor. i. 8, ' Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' Yet still we are to use such expressions, both as motives to move God out of his fulness to bestow what we ask, and as a strengthening to our own faith. And accordingly here in the text, when Panl asks sanctification at God's hands, he looks up to him as ' the God of peace.' Sin...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. Tin corruption of man'i whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and first of tlie depravation of the understanding, which is full of darkness and blinded, so that it cannot apprehend spirituat things in a due spiritual manner. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and said and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesui Christ.?1 Thes. V. 28. CHAPTER I. wards of the text explained.?That all the faculties of tlie soul, even the mind, are wliolly corrupted, proved from the expressions concerning it in Scripture, and from the equal extent both of sin and grace. These words have no coherence or dependence with the foregoing, for the conclusion of the epistle doth begin with them. They are a prayer for the working and perfecting that sanctification in them unto which he had exhorted, and which God had begun to work. Concerning which you have these things. 1. The author of this sanctification, God, to whom Paul prays to work and perfect it. And in prayer believers use to suit their invocation to God, according to the nature of the blessing they seek for. James i. 5, ' If auy of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ' ver. 17, ' the Father of lights.' So if we pray for mercy and comfort, then we are to call upon God, as the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, as Paul doth, 2 Cor. i. 8, ' Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.' Yet still we are to use such expressions, both as motives to move God out of his fulness to bestow what we ask, and as a strengthening to our own faith. And accordingly here in the text, when Panl asks sanctification at God's hands, he looks up to him as ' the God of peace.' Sin...

John Owen sought to illustrate the mystery of divine grace in the Person of Christ. Regarded as one of the most important post-Reformation works, Owen's Christology illustrates the mystery of divine grace in the Person of Christ.

The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification presents the culmination of Puritan thought on living the Christian life. Combining doctrinal precision and pastoral sensitivity, Walter Marshall shows how sanctification is essential to spiritual life, dependent on spiritual union with Jesus Christ, and inseparable though distinct from justification. He shows how holiness involves both the mind and the soul of the believer and that it is the aim of the Christian life. It is no wonder that this book has been reprinted many times throughout the years and received such high praise from leading ministers of the gospel. "The most important book on sanctification ever written." John Murray (1898 1975), professor of systematic theology, Westminster Theological Seminary

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Abraham Kuyper's famous 1898 Lectures on Calvinism, delivered at Princeton, covering six areas of life, showing Calvinism to be a whole, consistent worldview, unrivaled by all others.

You probably know him for preaching the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"--but Jonathan Edwards had much more to say about the Christian life.

This book, by Jonathan Edwards, American's greatest theologian, has inspired missionaries and preachers since its publication. John Wesley, Brainerd's contemporary, urges 'Let every preacher read carefully over the Life of David Brainerd