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"Because He is the covenantal head of elect believers, He [Jesus] may be and is their righteousness with God by faith alone in Him. Bec...

Paul gives us this description of the Gospel and man's need of it: " Just as sin came into the world through one man, and death thr...

" Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,      and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk,    ...

The hardest inheritance that all men have received from our first ancestor, Adam, is the promise of eternal life on the basis of perfect ...

Moses, Reading the Law There is a common misunderstanding, usually connected to a dispensational view of scripture, that holds that the ...

The Puritan Thomas Watson , in his Body of Divinity , lists ten ways in which sin is truly sinful:      1) Incredulity: Our first parents ...

"I become afraid of all my suffering,     for I know you will not hold me innocent. I shall be condemned;     why then do I labor in va...

" [They] say to the seers, 'Do not see,' and to the prophets, 'Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth ...

" The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, saying, 'Yo...

This is another passage from Peter Bulkeley's "The Gospel Covenant." I find great spiritual sweetness in it. Odd spellings and...

Another excerpt from The Gospel Covenant , by New England Puritan Divine Peter Bulkeley . All arcane spellings, grammar, and emphasis are ...

" For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, 'Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things w...