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- BOSTON. THOMAS 1676-1732
"Man's Utter Inability To Rescue Himself"
"We have now had a view of the total corruption of man's nature, and that load of wrath which
lies on him, that gulf of misery into which he is plunged in his natural state. But there is one part
of his misery that deserves particular consideration; namely, his utter inability to recover himself,
the knowledge of which is necessary for the due humiliation of a sinner."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F. 1939
"Dead Faith - Living Faith"
Sermon 1 - "Dead Faith" - Romans
7:14-17
Sermon 2 - "Living Faith" - Romans
7:18-25
"To sort of paraphrase James, faith plus nothing equals nothing. James, for example, describes
the kind of faith that equals nothing, he calls it "dead faith" in verse 17, verse 20 and
again at the end of the chapter in verse 26. Dead faith. Now inevitably, people with dead faith
always substitute words for deeds. They want you to believe that they are what they say when you
must understand that we are what we do. Trust not in words, trust only in movement. True faith
will always be seen in works. Dead faith will not be seen at all."
- SHEPARD, THOMAS 1605-1649
"The Sin Of Resting In Duties"
"Because men are ignorant of
Jesus Christ and his righteousness; hence men can not go unto him, because they see him not;
hence they shift as well as they can for themselves by their duties. Men seek to save themselves by
their own swimming, when they see no rope cast out to help them."
- TURRETIN, FRANCIS 1623-1687
"The Sanctification Of The Saint"
"Further with regard to the question here agitated between us and the Romanists-whether the
works of believers are and can be called truly good. We must distinguish between truly good and
perfectly good. We have proved before that the latter cannot be ascribed to the works of the
saints on account of the imperfection of sanctification and the remains of sin. But the former is
rightly predicated of them because although they are not as yet perfectly renewed, still they are
truly and unfeignedly renewed. While the Romanists are unwilling to make this distinction, they
falsely charge us with denying that the works of believers are truly good because we maintain that
they are imperfect, since the truth and perfection of works are notwithstanding most diverse and
the former can be granted without the latter."
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