Steve, over there at Controversial Calvinism, has reposted an excellent essay on 2 Peter 3:9.
What is interesting is that we often here that it is a hermeneutical rule that the “you” of 3:9 must be delimited by the addressees of the letter. I find this alleged rule to be less than plausible. But [...]
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II To Whom Sins be forgiven.
If we consider of them which do purchase the forgiveness of their sins by the grace of God, there is but a small number of them, even as it is of the elect in respect of the reprobate, whose sins be withhold for evermore. But we seek not here to [...]
For the Harvest] This is the second reason, from the next cause, or order of nature requiring harvest when the corn is white, John. 4:35. “Lift up your eyes,” says Christ, and look on the fields, “for they are already white to harvest.” Therefore being ripe, the time of the harvest is at hand. This [...]
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“Not willing that any should perish.” There is no man that hates the effect of his own worth. If the painter have drawn a counterfeit, or limned the resemblance of a creature, lie regards it as the effect of his own curious art. If a man begets a son, he is tied in affection to [...]
This is an interesting sermon by Manton. He seems to take a synthetic view which is very attractive. The will is the revealed will, yet there is a special reference to the elect. Manton shows us that we dont have to get into do-or-die Calvinism.
When I read the comment about the scoffer I had [...]
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