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THE SECOND COMING
John MacArthur,
Crossway, 1999
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- BENEDETTO, DON ?-1544 (Italian Reformer)
"The Benefit Of Christ Crucified"
"...so the Christian, apparelled and covered with the innocency of Christ and with all his
perfections, presenteth himself before God [the] Lord of all, putting his trust in the merits of
Christ none otherwise than if he had merited and obtained [them all]; faith (without doubt)
causeth that we possess Christ and all that is his, as every one of us possesseth his own garment.
And therefore to apparel ourself with Christ is none other thing than to believe assuredly that
Christ is ours (as true it is if we believe it), and to believe that by this heavenly garment we be
dearly beloved and acceptable in the presence of God; because it is most certain that he is a most
kind Father, hath given unto us his Son..."
- BEZA, THEODORE 1519-1605
"Jesus Christ The Son Of God"
"Jesus Christ is therefore true God and true man (Matt 1:21-23, Luke 1:35). He has a true human
soul, and a true human body formed from the substance of the virgin Mary, and by the power of
the Holy Spirit. By this means, he was conceived and born of this virgin Mary, virgin, I say,
before and after the birth. And all this was accomplished for our redemption."
- CHARNOCK, STEPHEN 1628-1680
"A Discourse On The Cleansing Virtue Of Christ's Blood"
Part 1
"A Discourse On The Cleansing Virtue Of Christ's Blood"
Part 2
"His sonship makes his blood valuable. It is blood, and so agreeable
to the law in the penalty; it is the blood of the Son of God, and therefore acceptable to the
lawgiver in its value. Though it was the blood of the humanity, yet the merit of it was derived
from the divinity. It is not his blood as he was the son of the virgin, but his blood as he was the
Son of God, which had this sovereign virtue."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Christ Exalted"
"Our Lord Jesus Christ in the work of redemption gloriously appears above all evil."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Christ's Agony"
"Our Lord Jesus Christ, in his original nature, was infinitely above all suffering, for he was 'God
over all, blessed for evermore;' but, when he became man, he was not only capable of suffering,
but partook of that nature that is remarkably feeble and exposed to suffering."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"The Excellency Of Christ"
"There is an admirable conjunction of diverse excellencies in Jesus Christ."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever"
"When it is said that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, by yesterday is meant all
time past; by today, the time present; and by forever, all that is
future, from the present time to eternity."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Safety, Fulness, And Sweet Refreshment In Christ"
"We are by our own sin against God plunged into all sort of evil, and God has provided a remedy
for us against every sort of evil, he has left us helpless in no calamity."
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Unbelievers Contemn The Glory And Excellency Of Christ"
"Unbelievers set nothing by all the glory and excellency that is in Christ."
- FLAVEL, JOHN 1630-1691
"Christ Altogether Lovely"
"That Jesus Christ is the loveliest person souls can set their eyes upon.."
- GILL, JOHN 1697-1771
"A Dissertation Concerning The Eternal Sonship Of Christ"
"This truth is written as with a sun-beam in the New Testament; but my design in what I am
about
is, not to give the proof of this doctrine from the sacred scriptures, but to shew who first set
themselves against it, and who have continued the opposition to it, more or less, to this time; and
on the other hand, to shew that sound and orthodox Christians, from the earliest times of
Christianity to the present, have asserted and defended it."
- GOODWIN, THOMAS 1600-1679
"The Knowledge
Of God The Father And His Son Jesus Christ"
THE INCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST
"That this person, the eternal Son of God, who was and is God, took unto himself, into
an unity of person with himself, the man Jesus, or that the person of Christ is God and man,
joined into one person."
- GOODWIN, THOMAS 1600-1679
"Of Christ The Mediator"
"He took up a strong purpose and resolution to reconcile some of the sons of men to him, though
they would or should turn rebels against him; and this purpose began from him, and in him first.
Hence the gathering together of all in one, that is, the uniting and knitting his church to himself in
one head, who were scattered from him. The gaining and winning them in again is said to be the
mystery of his will, and attributed to his good pleasure, whereof he gives no reason, but a
purpose taken up in himself, even according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in
himself: Ephesians 1:9, 10, 'Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his
good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself::' ver. 10, 'That, in the dispensation of the
fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven,
and which are on earth, even in him.'"
- GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH
"Lordship Salvation"
"The Gospel that Jesus proclaimed was a call to discipleship, a call to follow him in submissive
obedience, not just a plea to make a decision or pray a prayer."
- HODGE, CHARLES 1797-1878
"For Whom Did Christ Die?"
"This is a question between Augustinians and Anti-Augustinians. The former believing that God
from all eternity having elected some to everlasting life, had a special reference to their salvation
in the mission and work of his Son. The latter, denying that there has been any such election of a
part of the human family to salvation maintain that the mission and work of Christ had an equal
reference to all mankind."
- LUTHER, MARTIN 1483-1546
"Christ Our High Priest"
"Christ, in the exercise of his priestly office, in the sacrifice on the cross, was not adorned with
silk and gold and precious stones, but with divine love, wisdom, patience, obedience and all
virtues. His adornment was apparent to none but God and possessors, of the Spirit, for it was
spiritual."
- LUTHER, MARTIN 1483-1546
"Christ's Holy Sufferings"
"Fourthly, they meditate on the Passion of Christ aright, who so view Christ that they
become terror-stricken in heart at the sight, and their conscience at once sinks in despair. This
terror-stricken feeling should spring forth, so that you see the severe wrath and the unchangeable
earnestness of God in regard to sin and sinners, in that he was unwilling that his only and dearly
beloved Son should set sinners free unless he paid the costly ransom for them as is mentioned in
Is
53:8: 'For the transgression of my people was he stricken.'"
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939-present
"The Incarnation Of The Triune God" - Philippians 2:6-11
"Now, as we face the reality of Christmas, I want us to see the true story and this time not from
the perspective of Bethlehem or Joseph or Mary or shepherds or innkeepers or wise men or
Herod or Old Testament prophets, but I want us to see the Christmas story from the viewpoint of
the Holy Spirit of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. And I believe it gives us the real
Christmas story. The scenery isn't there. Bethlehem isn't the issue. Shepherds and wise men
and
Joseph and Mary and mangers and oxen, they don't appear in this perspective. But what is here
is the reality of the incarnation. This is one of the greatest texts in all the Bible. It is, perhaps,
the most profound statement of the Christmas story anywhere in the Word of
God."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939-present
"Looking At The Cross From God's Perspective"
"But for this morning, I want us to look at the cross in its relationship to God, to God Himself,
God the Father. What did it mean to God? We know what Jesus' death meant to us. We know
what it meant to the holy angels, it gave them a new verse to their great hymns of praise. We
know what it meant to the demons, it was the end of their control of their own destiny. We know
what it meant to Christ. But what did it mean to God? What did the death of Christ mean to
God? How did it represent God? How did it glorify God? What is His perspective on that great
event?"
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939-present
"Lordship Salvation Series"
SERMON 1 - "The Lordship Of Christ"
SERMON 2 - "The Nature Of Saving
Faith"
SERMON 3 - "The Call To Repentance"
SERMON 4 - "The Cost Of Discipleship"
"Nowhere in Scripture does it ever say a Christian is to make Christ Lord. If you're a Christian,
He is Lord. And it does say, very explicitly in Scripture, that unless you acknowledge that fact
that He is Lord, you could never be saved in the first place. That is obvious. Withholding the
Lordship of Christ from someone, withholding from them the fact that they need to surrender
their life to His leading, withholding from them that they need to confess and repent of their sin
is to damn the person to a delusion that they're are saved when they're not. Withholding the
Lordship of Christ from someone while giving them the gospel is a complete contradiction. The
Bible says that salvation is granted only to those who acknowledge Jesus as Lord and are willing
to submit their life to Him. To say that you should never talk about that, that all a person has to
do is believe that Jesus died for them doesn't say at all enough."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F.
"Open Theism's Attack On The Atonement"
"Unfortunately, the major segment of this generation of evangelicalism seems to lack the will or
the knowledge to decide whether open theists are wolves in sheep's clothing or true reformers.
But let it be clearly stated: by any definition of evangelicalism with historical integrity, open
theism opposes the very core truths that evangelicals stand for. And by any truly biblical
definition, they are heretics, purveyors of a different gospel. Both of these charges are
substantiated by open theism's abandonment of substitutionary atonement alone."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939-present
"Reexamining The Eternal Sonship Of Jesus Christ"
"To that end, I want to state publicly that I have abandoned the doctrine of "incarnational
sonship." Careful study and reflection have brought me to understand that Scripture does indeed
present the relationship between God the Father and Christ the Son as an eternal Father-Son
relationship. I no longer regard Christ's sonship as a role He assumed in His
incarnation."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939-present
"Resurrection: The Key To Everything"
"But the question is, what did the resurrection of Jesus Christ mean? What did it verify? What
did it accomplish? What did it prove? Well I want us to look at several realities that are proven
by
the resurrection, several that are made incontrovertible and inarguable by the resurrection. And I
think you'll find them very basic to the message of Scripture."
- MACHEN, J. GRESHAM 1881-1937
"The Atonement"
"Here we come to the very heart of Paul's teaching. The curse which Christ bore upon the
cross was not a curse that wrongly rested upon Him; it was not a curse pronounced upon Him by
some wicked human law. No, it was the curse of God's law; it was a curse, therefore, —
we tremble as we say it, but the Scripture compels us to say it — it was a curse that rightly
rested upon Him. But if that be so, there can be no doubt but that the substitutionary atonement
is taught in Scripture. The only way in which a curse could rightly rest upon a sinless One is that
He was the substitute, in bearing that curse, for those upon whom it did rightly rest. That is the
heart of Paul's teaching and the heart of the whole Bible."
- MACHEN, J. GRESHAM 1881-1937
"The Resurrection Of Christ"
Why is it, then, if the evidence be so strong, that so many modern men refuse to accept
the New Testament testimony to the resurrection of Christ? The answer is perfectly plain. The
resurrection, if it be a fact, is a stupendous miracle and against the miraculous or the supernatural
there is a tremendous opposition in the modern mind.
- MAYHUE, RICHARD L.
"For What Did Christ Atone In Isa 53:4-5" [Requires:
Adobe® Acrobat Reader]
Isaiah 53:4-5 raises the question, "For what did Christ atone?" or
more specifically, "Is physical healing in the atonement?" Outside Isaiah 53,
Scriptures touching on Christ's atonement in Leviticus and Hebrews deal
only with sin, not sickness. The context and language of Isa 53:3-12 address
sin alone. A broad range of Scriptures teach that Christ died to deal with
humankind's sin dilemma. Matthew 8:16-17 uses an illustration of physical
healing to demonstrate a spiritual truth about the Christian's resurrection
hope of being sinless and thus in perfect health. First Pet 2:24, studied in both
broad context (2:18-25) and narrow (2:24-25), reasons that Christ atoned for
sin, not sickness. Therefore, the conclusion is that physical healing is not in
the atonement, but rather comes through the atonement after resurrection,
because only then does the atonement eliminate the moral cause of physical
infirmities, which is sin in one's personal experience.
From: The Master's Seminary
Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 121-141, Fall 1995
NEWELL, WILLIAM REED 1868-1956
Romans
Verse
By
Verse, Chapter 5
The Two Men: Adam and Christ
OWEN, JOHN 1616-
1683
Christologia
- "Table of Contents, Prefatory Note, The
Preface"
Christologia - Main Text
CHAPTER 1 - Peter's Confession; Matt.16:16--Conceits of
the Papists thereon--The Substance and Excellency of that Confession
CHAPTER 2 -
Opposition made unto the Church as built upon the Person of Christ
CHAPTER 3 - The
Person cf Christ the most ineffable Effect of Divine Wisdom and Goodness
CHAPTER 4 - The Person of Christ the Foundation of all
the Counsels of God
CHAPTER 5 - The
Person of Christ the Great Representative of God and His Will
CHAPTER 6 - The
Person of Christ the Great Repository of Sacred Truth
CHAPTER 7 - Power and Efficacy Communicated unto
the
Office of Christ, for the Salvation of the Church, from his Person
CHAPTER 8 - The
Faith of the Church under the Old Testament in and concerning the Person of Christ
CHAPTER 9 -
Honour
due to the Person of Christ--The nature and Causes of it
CHAPTER 10 - The
Principle of the Assignation of Divine Honour unto the Person of Christ, in both the Branches
of it; is Faith in Him.Obedience unto Christ--The Nature and Causes of it
CHAPTER 11 -
Obedience unto Christ--The Nature and Causes of it
CHAPTER 12 - The
Person of Christ the Great Repository of Sacred Truth
CHAPTER 13 - The
Nature, Operations, and Causes of Divine Love, as it respects the Person of Christ
CHAPTER 14 - The
Person of Christ the Great Representative of God and His Will
CHAPTER 15 - The
Person of Christ the Great Repository of Sacred Truth
CHAPTER 16 - An humble Inquiry into, and Prospect of,
the infinite Wisdom of God, in the Constitution of the Person of Christ, and the Way of
Salvation
thereby.
CHAPTER 17 - Other
Evidences of Divine Wisdom in the Contrivance of the Work of Redemption in and by the
Person
of Christ, in Effects Evidencing a Condecency thereunto
CHAPTER 18 - The
Nature of the Person of Christ, and the Hypostatical Union of his Natures Declared
CHAPTER 19 - The
Exaltation of Christ, with his Present state and Condition in Glory during the Continuance of
his Mediatory Office
CHAPTER 20 - The
Exercise of the Mediatory Office of Christ in Heaven
OWEN, JOHN 1616-1683
"The Person & Satisfction Of Christ"
"It appears, from what has been spoken, that, in this matter of satisfaction, God is not considered
as a creditor, and sin as a debt; and the law as an obligation to the payment of that debt, and the
Lord Christ as paying it; - though these notions may have been used by some for the illustration
of
the whole matter, and that not without countenance from sundry expressions in the Scripture to
the same purpose."
PARTYKA, MICHAEL J.
"The Watchtower And The Ante-Nicene Church Fathers" - On the Trinity
"Well, speaking as somebody who's actually read all or most of the extant writings of every single
one of the ante-Nicene Church Fathers cited, I can tell you with absolute certainty that these ante-Nicene
writers knew the doctrine of the Trinity - or at least some of its key tenets - very well. In fact, some of the
very first apologetic defenses of the Trinity were written by these same Church Fathers!"
PIPER, JOHN
"Did Christ Die For Us Or For God"
"The root reason for why the cross is folly to the world is that it means the end of human
self-exaltation, and a radical commitment to God-exaltation. No - "commitment" is
not quite the right word. Rather the cross is a call to radical "exultation" in
God-exaltation. The cross is the death of our demand to be loved by being made the center. And
it is the birth of joy in God's being made the center."
SPURGEON, CHARLES H. 1868-1956
"For Whom Did Christ Die?"
"In this verse the human race is described as a sick man, whose disease is so far advanced that he
is altogether without strength: no power remains in his system to throw off his mortal malady,
nor
does he desire to do so; he could not save himself from his disease if he
would, and would not if he could. I have no doubt that the apostle had in his eye the description
of the helpless infant given by the prophet Ezekiel; it was an infant---an infant newly born-an
infant deserted by its mother before the necessary offices of tenderness had been performed; left
unwashed, unclothed, unfed, a prey to certain death under the most painful circumstances,
forlorn, abandoned, hopeless."
VINCENT, THOMAS 1634-1678
"The Only Deliverer From The Wrath To Come"
"It is not the finite wrath of the most furious and fierce creatures; it is not the wrath of lions, bears,
tigers, wolves, or wild bulls; it is not the wrath of the most potent and tyrannical men, who may
exceed all these in ferocity and cruelty. Neither is it the wrath of the devil, whose wrath is great here
on earth when let loose to tempt and deceive, but most furiously will express itself hereafter in hell
when he is let loose as God's executioner to torment the wicked. But by "the wrath to come" we are
to understand the infinite wrath of the sin-avenging God, in comparison with which the wrath of all
other creatures in the world is mild, and not in the least to be regarded."
WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"The End Of The Incarnation"
"Now this subordinate relation in which Jesus thus pervasively represents Himself to have stood
to the Father, so as to have been sent by Him, must be a matter either of nature or of
arrangement. It must be either essential or economic. It must find its account and origin either in
the necessity of nature or else in the provisions of a plan. But side by side with this perfectly
pervasive proclamation of His subordination to the Father, in the whole matter of the incarnation
itself, and the purpose or "will" that lies behind that incarnation and gives it its justification and
its
philosophical account, there runs an equally pervasive assertion by Jesus Himself and by His
historian as well, of His essential equality and oneness with God. He was not only in the
beginning
with God: He was God. He is the only-begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father. To have
seen Him is to have seen the Father also. He draws and receives from Thomas, the worshipping
cry, "My Lord and my God." He declares to the Jews, "I and the Father are One." It seems to be
clear, therefore, that the subordination in which the Father is recognized as greater than He,
prescribing a "will " for Him to come into the world to perform, is economic, not essential ; a
matter of arrangement, not of necessity of nature "
WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"Incarnate Truth"
"It is clear that it is primarily in its aspect as a revelation of God that John is here
contemplating the incarnation. Accordingly, he bears his personal witness to it as such: "The
Word was made flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory, a glory as of
an
only-begotten of the Father." Accordingly, too, he summons the prophetic witness of the
forerunner. And accordingly, still further, he closes the whole with a declaration of the nature of
the revelation made, and its guarantee in the relation of the incarnated Word to the Father: 'No
man hath seen God at any time; God only-begotten which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him.'"
WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"The Principle Of The Incarnation"
"It is only, for example, because Christ Jesus came to save sinners that all that God is is
manifested in him, that Holy Love finds its complete expression in him, that through him man
attains his ultimate perfection. Eliminate sin as the proximate occasion and redemption as the
prime end of the Incarnation, and none of the other relations in which it stands, and none of the
other effects which flow from it, will be fulfilled, at least in the measure of their rights. That
each
of them may attain the highest place possible to it in our contemplation of the ends subserved by
the Incarnation and the glorious results that flow from it, it is essential that they be conceived not
apart from salvation from sin as if they were or might be considered its substitutes, but along
with
it as its complements."
WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"The Resurrection Of Christ: A Historical Fact"
"The Incarnation of the eternal God is necessarily a dogma: no human eye could witness his
stooping to man's estate, no human tongue could bear witness to it as a fact. And yet, if it be not
a fact, our faith is vain, we are yet in our sins. On the other hand, the Resurrection of Christ is a
fact, an external occurrence within the cognizance of men to be established by their testimony.
And yet, it is the cardinal doctrine of our system: on it all other doctrines hang."
WARFIELD, BENJAMIN B. 1851-1921
"The Risen Jesus"
"But neither can it be overlooked that it is specifically to the resurrection, which is an act, that he
adverts; and that he adverts to it in such a manner as to make it manifest that the fact of the
resurrection of Christ held a place in his Gospel which deserves to be called no-thing less than
central. The exalted Christ is conceived by him distinctly as the resurrected Jesus; and it is clear
that, had there been no resurrection of Jesus, Paul would not have known how to point Timothy
to the exalted Christ as the source of his strength to face with courage the hardships and defeats
of life."
WATSON, THOMAS 1620-1686
"Christ's Humiliation In His Incarnation"
"Christ's humiliation consisted in his incarnation, his taking flesh, and being born. It was real
flesh that Christ took; not the image of a body (as the Manichees erroneously hold), but a true
body; therefore he is said to be "made of a woman." Galatians 5:4. As bread is made of wheat,
and wine is made of the grape; so Christ is made of a woman: his body was part of the flesh
and substance of the virgin. This is a glorious mystery, "God manifest in the flesh." In the
creation, man was made in God's image; in the incarnation God was made in man's image."
WATSON, THOMAS 1620-1686
"Christ The Redeemer"
"The thing implied is that Jesus Christ is the glorious purchaser of our redemption. The doctrine
of redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious doctrine; it is the marrow and quintessence of the
gospel, in which all a Christian's comfort lies. Great was the work of creation, but greater the
work of redemption; it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the
speaking of a word, in the other the shedding of blood."
WHITE, JAMES 1963-present
"The Nature Of God - The Triunity Of God"
"The doctrine of the Trinity is based on three Biblical truths that together form its foundation: 1.
There is only one God (monotheism); 2. There are three Persons - the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. This is in direct contradiction of modalism, Sabellianism, or the "Jesus Only" teachings
that deny the separate personhood of Father, Son and Spirit; 3. There is full equality of the
Persons. This is in direct contradiction of Arianism and all systems that would deny the full Deity
and equality of the Son and the Spirit. Each of these truths is part of God's revelation of Himself,
and no system can claim to be based on the Bible unless these truths are taken into account. The
denial of any one of these Biblical teachings leads directly to heresy and false doctrine - denial
of monotheism leads to polytheism (such as in Mormonism); denial of the three Persons leads
into modalism (such as the United Pentecostal movement); and denial of the equality of the
Persons leads to subordination-ism (Jehovah's Witnesses, the Way International,
etc.)."
WHITE, JAMES 1963-present
"The Pre-existence Of Christ"
In this divine person all things "hold together"or consist. This divine person is said to be "before
ta panta - all things." There is no clearer passage in the Bible concerning the fact that
Jesus
Christ, the eternal Word, created all things. There is no room here for the gnostic pleroma in
which Christ is but a part - no, here Christ is seen as the Creator Himself who holds the universe
together by his own power. The pre-existent Christ shines brightly in Paul's mind, and forms the
basis for his teaching of the relationship between Christ and the Church."
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"Christ's Transfiguration"
"But, (adds he)
I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here,
who shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God."
But it is the opinion of Mr.
Henry, of Bishop Hall, of Burkit, and others, who have written upon this passage, that our
blessed Lord has a peculiar reference to the transfiguration upon the mount: "There be some of you here, that shall not taste of death, till ye see my
transfiguration upon the mount; till ye see some glorified saint come down from heaven and pay
me a visit, and consequently see a little of that kingdom of God, which ye shall have a full sight
of when ye come to glory."
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"Christ The Support Of The Tempted"
"Our Lord Jesus Christ saw how his people would be tempted; and that the great enemy of their
souls would lay hold of every opportunity, so he could but be a means of keeping poor sinners
from coming to the Lord Jesus Christ; hurrying you with temptation, to drive you to some great
sins; and then if he cannot gain you over, sell it to a smaller, and suit his temptations time after
time; and when he finds none of these things will do, often transform himself into an angel of
light, and by that means make the soul fall into sin, to the dishonor of God, and the wounding of
itself; the Lord Jesus, I say, seeing how liable his disciples, and all others, would be to be
overcome by temptation, therefore advises them, when they pray, to beg that they might not be
led into temptation."
WHITFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"The Lord Our Righteousness"
"And we have contracted such devilish pride, by our fall from God, that we would, if not wholly,
yet in part at least, glory in being the cause of our own salvation. It is true, we disclaim the
doctrine of merit, are ashamed directly to say we deserve any good at the hands of God;
therefore, as the Apostle excellently well observes, 'we go about,' we fetch a circuit, 'to establish
a righteousness of our own, and,' like the Pharisees of old, 'will not wholly submit to that
righteousness which is of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.'"
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"The Power Of Christ's Resurrection"
Accordingly, in the following discourse I shall endeavor to show, that Christ is risen indeed from
the dead; and that it was necessary for him so to do; and that it highly concerns us to know and
experience the power of his resurrection.
WHITFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"The Righteousness Of Christ, An Everlasting Righteousness"
"All that we receive in time; all the streams that come to our souls, are but so many steams
flowing from that inexhaustible fountain, God's electing, God' s sovereign, God' s distinguishing,
God's everlasting love; and, therefore, the righteousness of Jesus Christ may properly be called
an everlasting righteousness, because God intended it from everlasting."
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"The Temptation Of Christ"
"Those especially of you, that are placed as on the pinnacle of the temple, exalted above your
fellows in the church of God, take heed in an especial manner unto yourselves, lest by spiritual
pride, vanity, or any other sin that doth most easily beset persons in such eminent stations, ye
cast yourselves down."
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE 1714-1770
"What Think Ye Of Christ?"
"As to his person, some said he was Moses; others that he was Elias, Jeremias, or one of the
ancient prophets; few acknowledged him to be what he really was, God blessed for evermore."
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