… with the PRC and have only crossed Bibles with Prof. Engelsma because he denies that Gill preached repentance and faith to the unregenerate, which, of course he did. I must admit that I have only recently seen that Engelsma believes in duty-faith and find this incongruous as duty-faith is the basis of the free offer which he denies.
“I make no apologies for disagreeing with the esteemed Dr. Ella for the simple fact that the hyper-Calvinistic error that he espouses must be rejected. …
Posts Tagged Repentance
Prepositions and Voices
Aug 21
… were baptised into his death?” Matthew 3:11 is rendered, “I indeed baptise you with water UNTO repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.” Matthew 28:19 is rendered, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them IN the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.”. Acts 2:38 is …
… be seen as avoiding the question. Put directly, do you believe that there is no point in preaching repentance to sinners?
A. What a strange thought? The Lord came to call sinners to repentance and there are a lot of unrepentant sinners out there to whom we have a duty to urge both to repent and to believe. This task is a world-wide one and a permanent one until Kingdom come. Nobody realised this as much as John Gill who was the most successful Baptist in the first half of the 18th century in …
Anglicans and Presbyterians
Aug 21
… were preached in England in all ages. Calvin never reached the Lutheran and Anglican standards on repentance and justification. Knox rejected the Emden forms and the Anglican exiles’ pastor-preacher, elder, deacon system, preferring a seven-tier hierarchy and forbidding the public reading of God’s Word. Winzet listed dozens of Knox’s un-Scriptural ceremonies. Weston protested that Knox made himself the measure of all things and Non-Conformist Whitehead warned Calvin of Knox’s …
… a living faith in the Saviour. The reasoning was that if God alone can, and sometimes does, give repentance and faith, such should be demanded of no man, whoever he might be; sovereign grace is irresistible. Second, high Calvinism denied that it is the responsibility of the churches to call upon all men indiscriminately to repent and to believe in Christ for the salvation of their souls.”
Naylor further maintains, “high Calvinism denied that a person insensitive to his sinfulness …
… having in mind those Arminians who told him mockingly that he could not believe in the need for repentance if men were predestined to believe, he told his hearers with Spirit-led power, “Be faithful, labour to shew the one and the other their wretched state by nature; the necessity of repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, in his blood, righteousness, and atoning sacrifice, for peace, pardon, justification, and salvation.”
It was inevitable that John Wesley …
… as a mere figure of speech to indicate the application of salvation in the believer’s life. Thus repentance and faith are the main ingredients of redemption and not Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.
There is certainly a close parallel in Baxter’s insistence that the sinner must ‘do something’ towards his salvation. Fuller points out that Baxter looks for evangelical works before a sinner can be justified. This is hardly different from Fuller’s duty-faith teaching. Indeed, …
The Gospel of Deceit
Aug 17
… concludes the section by saying that God clearly is pleased to will that all should turn to Him in repentance. This is, however, not the dividing line between orthodoxy and Murrayism and his Free Offer gospellers. The line is where Murray preaches salvation for all where God demands repentance from all. The Scriptural demand for repentance does not automatically bring with it the guarantee or grant of salvation. All must repent because all have broken the law. Salvation is only by grace and …
