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USER COMMENTS BY “ THOMAS SULLIVAN ” |
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 4/28/09 4:54 PM |
| Thomas Sullivan | | Jenison MI | |  |  | |  |
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“ Thanks for sharing this. ”
This was a very interesting audio because it is unusual to find such a meeting shared publicly. Thank you for this. We have come a long way since the ordination trial of William Craig in 1717 when he was denied his license because he gave an unsatisfactory answer to the question,"Must a person forsake his sins in order to come to Christ?" which issued later in the Marrow Controversy. Still the questions here were answered, as would be expected, from a graduate of the Master's Seminary, though I wondered if the receiving of Jon may not too much appear like it was already a foregone conclusion. I would only have asked Jon to be sure to read Richard Baxter's "The Reformed Pastor" (1656) one time through on his knees before accepting this charge. Then when asked his goal as a pastor he could answer like Baxter, "to let in irresistible light to their consciences, to keep it there, and drive all home; to screw the truth into their minds, and work Christ into their affections ; to meet every objection, and clearly to resolve it; to drive sinners to a stand,and make them see that there is no hope of their escaping destruction except they be converted." |
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| 9/30/07 4:29 PM |
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“ Great Sermon! ”
Kevin: Thanks for adding this series. This was before I came to the R B Church of Holland so I wanted to hear some of these, especially his exposition or Romans 7:14-25. Dave D: Thanks for all the hard work to convert the old cassettes to .mp3 so we can have them.
Glad to see you got a handle on using Adobe Audition.
To think in the old days I used to pay 2.00 to 5.00 bucks a tape to listen to sermons and then after hearing them once or twice, they just take up place in storage.
Now I can spend that money on new books! |
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| 9/26/07 5:40 AM |
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“ Thanks for adding this narration ”
A couple of historic notes. Edwards sermons were not paraphrased, the English was corrected because he admits himself that he did not pay great attention to detail in writing. His writings were often not good examples of English composition. International Outreach Ministries and Soli Deo Gloria ministries have transcribed his sermons from the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Room, and I wish they would have corrected the manuscripts. (2) This sermon, according to Marsden - Edwards - A Life, was preached a couple of times before the famous preaching of it at Enfield, July 8 1741. On that occasion he never finished the sermon because the outcries from convictions were too loud and manifest. |
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| 9/25/07 5:16 AM |
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“ Very Probing, Most Convicting! ”
My best friend alerted me to this sermon and said that I must hear it, and I finally did. I replied that it of course merits a positive comment left here, but he agreed that it also weighs us in the balance and we must not be found wanting ourselves. I keep thinking of Richard Baxter's warning to me, "If sin be evil, why do you live in it if it be not, why do you dissuade men from it? If it be dangerous, how dare you venture on it? if it be not, why do you tell men so? If God’s threatenings be true, why do you not fear them? Take heed lest you cry down sin, and yet do not overcome it; lest, while you seek to ring it down in others, you bow to it, and become its slaves yourselves - The Reformed Pastor - 1656
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| 9/20/07 8:45 AM |
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“ The Man in Romans 7:14-25 ”
I wanted to call attention to this treatise of Owen because of his masterly exposition of the man in Romans 7:14-25.
As to those who would consider that the passage speaks of an AWAKENED sinner, i.e. the view of Lloyd-Jones in his book, The Law and It's Functions - (1)all verbs in Romans 7:7-13 are past tense, in vs.14-25 they are present tense. (2)Pauls statement, "I am carnal sold under sin" is his existential experience(what he is feeling) not what is STRICTLY true - compare Gal. 5:17 "so that ye cannot do the things that ye would," which is spoken of Christians. (3)I delight in the law after the inward man is foreign language to someone who is merely awakened, but is true language for a Christian. (4)"Not I, but sin that dwelleth in me" is speaking of a new nature still being renewed, not an unregenate sinner, further proved by, "I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin." why thank God if he is unregenerate? He knows he will have the victory in the end. Romans 8:4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. These verses are parallel NOT speaking of two different spiritual conditions. (5)the law that Paul finds in vs.21 is the law of indwelling sin, not the moral law. |
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